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JerzeyLegend said:
I still do this from time to time. If anyone needs something, let me know. I may have forgotten a person or two.
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Actually, because I really have a problem keeping my budget down: Under $2,000, going for an all-purpose comp from gaming to artwork to music to writing. Just the case and everything inside it - the monitors, etc I haven't decided on yet.

One thing though: I want at least 3 monitors, preferably 5. So the capability of supporting that many, please.
 
TheGurw said:
Can easily drop that below $2000 by getting rid of the monitors :D I'm only asking for the capability of having that many, I have a separate budget for monitors (considering one will likely be a projector, one monitor will be over $2000 by itself, and the other one/three (depending on capability of the graphics card) will be around $300-500 each).
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Jesus Christ, I mean porn is great and all but that's a bit overkill.
 
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/bkbsjX

Upped memory clock, swapped out 770s for 970s, removed monitors, and lowered PSU.

Higher memory means faster multitasking also I did 2 x 8GB instead of 4 x 4GB so that you can expand later.

770s are nice but the 970s will do a better job at 4K resolutions, the x70 moniker cards always seem to have better price:performance ratio.

You actually need a lowered powered PSU with the 970s. It's amazing how they require less energy and put out more power. You're build only requires about 400W.

I think it's final, unless you saw something like you don't like the case, etc. I expect you to tweak it anyway. Also Cyber Monday is coming.

Edit: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/bkbsjX
 
lacar1601 said:
Which theme is that?

Is there a noticeable difference in performance for using 2 monitors and 2 video cards - one for each monitor - versus using one video card for two monitors?
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Black and white across the case, motherboard, and PSU.

Not at all. Only loss really is if you aren't using SLi and are instead using Surround, in which case you won't have a loss, but you won't have gains either. That makes sense?
 
Mmmm sexy. I mean it when I say I couldn't have done better - like I said I have a hard time building to a budget.
 
JerzeyLegend said:
Not at all. Only loss really is if you aren't using SLi and are instead using Surround, in which case you won't have a loss, but you won't have gains either. That makes sense?
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Hmm. Seeing as how SLI is a parallel processing solution, and Surround is, independently, a multiple-monitor rendering capability, couldn't Surround also be achieved using SLI to get the best of both worlds? Or are the two options not available together?

Also, personally I'm satisfied with just playing a game on one monitor, so Surround is just a niche for me.

Also, I've read some reviews where there are cases where SLI actually degrades performance. I assume your solution to that is to simply use identical video cards. Certainly, I can see that there would be a gain if SLI works (80% quicker best-case according to one review), but I'm not sure whether the gain is worth the purchase of another high-end video card especially if just one high-end video card is satisfactory for today's games.
 
lacar1601 said:
Hmm. Seeing as how SLI is a parallel processing solution, and Surround is, independently, a multiple-monitor rendering capability, couldn't Surround also be achieved using SLI to get the best of both worlds? Or are the two options not available together?

Also, personally I'm satisfied with just playing a game on one monitor, so Surround is just a niche for me.

Also, I've read some reviews where there are cases where SLI actually degrades performance. I assume your solution to that is to simply use identical video cards. Certainly, I can see that there would be a gain if SLI works (80% quicker best-case according to one review), but I'm not sure whether the gain is worth the purchase of another high-end video card especially if just one high-end video card is satisfactory for today's games.
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Not really since when in SLi you're sharing the workload with the other cards and sending them to the master. Most configurations either share the workload by splitting up the geometry between to cards or it can do alternate frame rendering which says Card 1 renders frame 1 and all odd frames and Card 2 renders frame 2 and all even frames. Even then the alternate frames have to be sent back to the master card. I think that's where the loss happens as all of the output has to be sent back to the first card.

While you can do mixed SLi, the fastest card will run at the speed of the slowest.

I prefer to have SLi because many games can be tweaked to take advantage and it's my security blanket, but one good card will do the job as well.
 
One month necro time! I am trying to build a desktop for $500-$700 dollars.

Easy, right? Preferably, it should match/beat my current i7-4700MQ and GT 740M laptop. It should be up-gradable, as Star Citizen will hopefully release in two years. I already have a decent mouse, headphones, usb wireless adapter, and two 19in monitors lined up - the specs will be edited in when I learn them. Windows is unnecessary, same goes for an optical drive.

I also made a post in r/buildapc. Thanks for any help!

EDIT: Or I could spend several hours all night picking parts and reading guides/spec pages.
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/MiniCacti/saved/XPdv6h
 
Thread revival! Here's the "shopping list" for the desktop I'm hoping to start assembling soon:

AMD A10-6800K 4.1GHz Quad-Core Processor
Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
Asus GeForce GTX 970 4GB STRIX Video Card
Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-D3H Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (two kits, for 32GB total)
Corsair Vengeance Airflow Memory cooling fan
Corsair Force LX Series 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (Already acquired)
Aerocool DS-Cube Red MicroATX Mid Tower Case
Corsair 760W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply
Rosewill RNX-N250PCe 802.11b/g/n PCI-Express Wi-Fi Adapter
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 (OEM) (64-bit)

Grand total: A little under $1300, or about $720 to just get it operational. Questions, comments, concerns?
 
krylani said:
Thread revival! Here's the "shopping list" for the desktop I'm hoping to start assembling soon:

AMD A10-6800K 4.1GHz Quad-Core Processor
Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
Asus GeForce GTX 970 4GB STRIX Video Card
Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-D3H Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (two kits, for 32GB total)
Corsair Vengeance Airflow Memory cooling fan
Corsair Force LX Series 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (Already acquired)
Aerocool DS-Cube Red MicroATX Mid Tower Case
Corsair 760W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply
Rosewill RNX-N250PCe 802.11b/g/n PCI-Express Wi-Fi Adapter
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 (OEM) (64-bit)

Grand total: A little under $1300, or about $720 to just get it operational. Questions, comments, concerns?
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Are you going to upgrade to Windows 10?
 
Maybe, if its system footprint is significantly lower than Win7's. This is purely a gaming/media rig; my laptop will still be my everyday-use system for at least a few more years.
 
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