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clintnerd

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I'm looking to buy one of these in the next few months. Primary use will be gaming, and coding.

What is the BEST overall PC build?

Build One:

  • Power Supply EVGA SuperNOVA G3 - 1000 Watt
    Motherboard Asus® X99 Rampage V Edition 10
    Processor Intel® Core™ i7-6850K 6 Cores, 12 Threads, 3.8 GHz
    Processor Cooler Asetek® Liquid Cooling 570LC
    Memory 32GB - 4x8GB - 2400MHZ
    Video Card NVIDIA® TITAN Xp 12GB - Pascal
    Video Card NVIDIA® TITAN Xp 12GB - Pascal
    Sound Card On-Board Audio
    Networking On-Board Ethernet
    Operating System Drive - SSD Samsung® 960 Pro - 1TB SSD - M.2 - PCI Express
    Data Drive - SSD or HDD Western Digital Red Pro - 8TB HDD - SATA
    Optical Drive DVD Writer
    64-Bit Operating System Windows 10 Pro
    Rescue Drive Rescue Drive USB
    Keyboard Corsair® K70 LUX RGB Cherry® MX Red Mechanical
    Mouse Logitech® G402 Hyperion
    Monitor Asus® PG348Q 34" 3440x1440 - G-SYNC

Build Two:

  • Motherboard:
    ASUS RAMPAGE V EDITION 10 with Integrated Wireless AC
    Processor:
    Intel® CoreT i7 6900K 8-core 3.2GHz/3.7GHz Turbo 20MB L3 Cache w/ HyperThreading
    Processor Cooling:
    [Open Loop Liquid Cooling] MAINGEAR EPIC 640 Custom Handcrafted Liquid Cooling
    Coolant:
    [Custom COLOR/UV/Pastel] EKoolant extra pure, distilled, and deionized water
    Intel® Turbo Boost Advanced Automatic Overclocking
    Memory:
    32GB HyperX® FURYT DDR4- 2666 (4x8GB) [QUAD Channel]
    Graphics Card:
    Dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB GDDR5x [SLI] with G-SYNC
    GPU Liquid Cooling:
    Dual Card EK Supremacy - Nickel
    Power Supply:
    1200 Watt Corsair® Professional Digital Series AX1200i 80+ Platinum Certified Modular Power Supply ROHS
    Power Supply Sleeving:
    Power Supply Sleeving - BLACK
    Operating System Drive:
    [M.2 NVME SSD] 1TB Samsung® 960 Pro [3,500MB/s Sequential Reads]
    Hard Drive Bay Two:
    [HDD] 4TB Seagate Desktop HDD 5200rpm 64MB Cache
    Optical Drive One:
    8X Asus® DVD Burner External USB 2.0
    Audio:
    On Board High Definition 8-Channel Audio
    Ethernet Adapter:
    On-board Gigabit Ethernet
    Operating System:
    Microsoft Windows 10 Home 64-bit
    Display:
    ASUS ROG PG279Q Black 27" WQHD IPS 2560X1440, Gaming Monitor, 165 Hz refresh Rate

Thanks for your help!!

 


I'd just really like to know up top whih is better.

To go liquid cooled and two 1080ti's ...

Or closed looped cooled cpu and two titans (air cooled)?
 

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