1. It will be handling, 3d modelling, animation, rendering, architectural design, and hobby design along with gaming - looking forward to Batman Arkham Knight!
2. Figure budget of 1500 right now. Give or take.
3. Buying in the US
4. N/A
5. I do prefer Intel/Nvidia - I do like asus, but am open to opinions. I'm not a whiz bang OC genius and they make it about is no-brainer as possible in my experience
6. Parts on hand: Geforce 980, keyboard, mouse, Benq BL3200 monitor, and i just picked up two hard drives (1tb SSD and 3TB WD black for storage on a big sale )
7. Looking for a decent overclock, but will not be pushing to the nth degree. Shooting to get to or past 4Ghz i hope.
8. 2560x1440 (not ruling out 4k and 2 way SLI down the road either).
9. Looking at doing it this month. I thought of waiting for skylake, but i've already waited 5+ years and the way i work, i'd wait 6-12 months after skylake to see how it shakes/shook out.
CASE: Fractal Design Define R5 FD-CA-DEF-R5-BK Black Computer Case
MB: ASUS X99-DELUXE LGA 2011-v3 Intel X99 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
PS: CORSAIR RM Series RM750 750W ATX12V v2.31 and EPS 2.92 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Full Modular Active PFC Power
CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K Haswell-E 6-Core 3.3GHz LGA 2011-v3 140W BX80648I75820K Desktop Processor
RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 16GB (4 x 4GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2666 (PC4-21300) Desktop Memory Model CMK16GX4M4A2666C16
COOLER: Noctua NH-U14S 140x150x25 ( NF-A15 PWM) SSO2-Bearing ( Self-stabilising oil-presure bearing ) CPU Cooler
And a copy of 8.1 Pro...
Total is 1390ish. If it can get lowered great! I'm not expecting too much. But if it gets me up to 32GB, that's all the better
Considering the Asus Pro instead of deluxe...seems the difference amounts to the number of available ports available more or less.
PS - read good things, and short of a @%$ing lightning strike a few years ago Corsair's done good by me, but it's not a must.
Same with the Noctua, except it wasn't hit by lightning
Thanks for looking!
2. Figure budget of 1500 right now. Give or take.
3. Buying in the US
4. N/A
5. I do prefer Intel/Nvidia - I do like asus, but am open to opinions. I'm not a whiz bang OC genius and they make it about is no-brainer as possible in my experience
6. Parts on hand: Geforce 980, keyboard, mouse, Benq BL3200 monitor, and i just picked up two hard drives (1tb SSD and 3TB WD black for storage on a big sale )
7. Looking for a decent overclock, but will not be pushing to the nth degree. Shooting to get to or past 4Ghz i hope.
8. 2560x1440 (not ruling out 4k and 2 way SLI down the road either).
9. Looking at doing it this month. I thought of waiting for skylake, but i've already waited 5+ years and the way i work, i'd wait 6-12 months after skylake to see how it shakes/shook out.
CASE: Fractal Design Define R5 FD-CA-DEF-R5-BK Black Computer Case
MB: ASUS X99-DELUXE LGA 2011-v3 Intel X99 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
PS: CORSAIR RM Series RM750 750W ATX12V v2.31 and EPS 2.92 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Full Modular Active PFC Power
CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K Haswell-E 6-Core 3.3GHz LGA 2011-v3 140W BX80648I75820K Desktop Processor
RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 16GB (4 x 4GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2666 (PC4-21300) Desktop Memory Model CMK16GX4M4A2666C16
COOLER: Noctua NH-U14S 140x150x25 ( NF-A15 PWM) SSO2-Bearing ( Self-stabilising oil-presure bearing ) CPU Cooler
And a copy of 8.1 Pro...
Total is 1390ish. If it can get lowered great! I'm not expecting too much. But if it gets me up to 32GB, that's all the better
Considering the Asus Pro instead of deluxe...seems the difference amounts to the number of available ports available more or less.
PS - read good things, and short of a @%$ing lightning strike a few years ago Corsair's done good by me, but it's not a must.
Same with the Noctua, except it wasn't hit by lightning
Thanks for looking!