New work/play build

[cboath]

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!

 

[mfenn]

The overall idea of your build is good, but quite a few of the parts can be tweaked to be less expensive without giving up functionality. It should be no problem to get you to 32GB within your budget, and getting to 32GB will make much more of a functional difference in your day-to-day usage than having a slightly fancier motherboard or power supply.

- Case: Good
- Mobo: $382 is too much to be paying for a motherboard given your use case and desire for a moderate overclock. The ASRock X99 Extreme6 at $237 AR is a solid board at a nice price. (-$145)
- PSU: If the mobo was overkill, the PSU is just crazy. $240 is an obscene amount of money to spend on a 750W unit. A very nice Seasonic X-Series 750W runs $110 AR (-$130)
- CPU: Good
- RAM: Using the savings above, you can pick up 4x8GB kit of Crucial DDR4 2400 for $350, and still come out ahead by $160. DDR4 2400 is fine, there's not much benefit to be gained (1-2%) by chasing high RAM speeds.
- HSF: Good

 

[cboath]

Weird, at posting and even now, my wishlist shows that PS as 129. Clicking on it though shows 240. You're right - 240 is crazy. If that sale piece is gone, so is that PS, hello seasonic

I'll check into that MB...first glance does look good.

Exactly where should one be able OC a 5820 in this setup? From poking around, it seems 4.1-4.4 would be the range. I know it's lotto dependent to an extent, but generally speaking at least.

And thanks for the feedback

 

[cboath]

550 is enough even if i add a second 980?

 

[cboath]

Thanks for that. I know i'm weakest at knowing what size PSU to use. Always have been.. Even with 650, the price drops a nice chunk - around 50-60 depending on which one to go with.

Thanks for helping clarify that for me.

 

[MongGrel]

The overall idea of your build is good, but quite a few of the parts can be tweaked to be less expensive without giving up functionality. It should be no problem to get you to 32GB within your budget, and getting to 32GB will make much more of a functional difference in your day-to-day usage than having a slightly fancier motherboard or power supply.

- Case: Good
- Mobo: $382 is too much to be paying for a motherboard given your use case and desire for a moderate overclock. The ASRock X99 Extreme6 at $237 AR is a solid board at a nice price. (-$145)
- PSU: If the mobo was overkill, the PSU is just crazy. $240 is an obscene amount of money to spend on a 750W unit. A very nice Seasonic X-Series 750W runs $110 AR (-$130)
- CPU: Good
- RAM: Using the savings above, you can pick up 4x8GB kit of Crucial DDR4 2400 for $350, and still come out ahead by $160. DDR4 2400 is fine, there's not much benefit to be gained (1-2%) by chasing high RAM speeds.
- HSF: Good

Technically yes, but with max OC's on both GPU's and the CPU you would be right around that mark.

The main issue is lack of connectors on 550W PSU's. Most of them just have 2 PCI-E connectors so if you are for sure you're gonna get a 2nd GPU then grab a 650W.

Same models apply.

I concur IMHO, I love my ASUS boards, but for a mild OC you should be able to hit 4 easy with an ASRock, I have just never used one myself I guess.

SeaSonics PSU's are great, I use Antec a lot too, but most of them I have are Seasonic builds except for one Delta I have.

That 750 for that price sounds nice also.

The RAM too, I still just OC my X5680 using 1333, it seems a bit of a waste to spend extra money on really higher costs stuff for very little gain, the 1333 GSkills I have runs this at 4.5Ghz easily with a NH-D14 on here, if you're just shooting for past 4Ghz the one you have listed would handle it just fine.

I'm not using DDR4 I guess, but I imagine the same rule of thumb applies there also.

I'm not going to knock the CPU cooler, I love Noctua, but for another $10 bucks you could probably fit one of the bigger boys in there.

*Edit* I reversed the fans btw, the NH-D14 Blows upwards to a large fan on the Antes 1200, not down,and moved one from intake to pulling from the top. With support from the two rear ones.

You'd think this case would be really noisy but it isnt, it's been modified over the years and still have 3 Arctic Cool 120's on the drive bays and the whole case is quiet.

The stock Antec fans on it were really loud.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...=BESTMATCH&Description=NH+D14&N=-1&isNodeId=1

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[cboath]

I have that setup, with the fans reversed blowing up on my Antec 902 as well

 

[MongGrel]

I have that setup, with the fans reversed blowing up on my Antec 902 as well

It does vacuum that heat straight out of the top pretty well