$5000 Budget.

[j0053]

Never built a computer before, but I'd like to give it a shot. I don't want to spend more than $5000, and I'd like to be able to play any game, max settings, with 60 frames+, and last me at least 3 years. Noise is an issue for me, so it needs to have quiet cooling. Aside from that, anything goes.

What do you think?

[Hellravager]

0.o your insane if your going to spend that much anyway post all your info so we know
Budget
Resolution
Games / Settings Desired
Any other intensive software or special things you do (Frequent video encoding, 3D modeling, etc)
Country
Parts that can be reused
Do you need an OS?
Do you need peripherals (e.g. monitor, mouse, keyboard, speakers, etc)?

[Ealyssa]

Take 1/5 of this money, and upgrade every year.

Way better use of it, no matter what you buy today.

[Deleted]

@OP read and answer these questions please: Want help with your build? Read me!

Wait for some more specifics before you go nuts with build suggestions (imo)

[j0053]

0.o your insane if your going to spend that much anyway post all your info so we know
Budget
Resolution
Games / Settings Desired
Any other intensive software or special things you do (Frequent video encoding, 3D modeling, etc)
Country
Parts that can be reused
Do you need an OS?
Do you need peripherals (e.g. monitor, mouse, keyboard, speakers, etc)?

$5000 budget
1920x1080 minimum
WoW, BF4, Crysis 3,all maxed out 100%
I'm an architect so I use autocad, rs mean, primavera, revit, and a few other contract management softwares
U.S.A
Need an OS
I need a mouse and a nice monitor maybe 20-24" and a keyboard would be nice as well. Also a good headset.

[Deleted]

You want to spend 5k? Okay, spend 5k:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i7-4960X Extreme Edition 3.6GHz 6-Core Processor ($1029.98 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Be Quiet DARK ROCK PRO 2 67.8 CFM Fluid Dynamic Bearing CPU Cooler ($99.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4 ATX LGA2011 Motherboard ($208.49 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3-1333 Memory ($284.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V200 Series 256GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($159.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Red 4TB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive ($189.99 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($735.66 @ Newegg)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($735.66 @ Newegg)
Sound Card: Asus Xonar Essence STX 24-bit 192 KHz Sound Card ($169.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Fractal Design Define R4 w/Window (White) ATX Mid Tower Case ($89.99 @ Microcenter)
Power Supply: SeaSonic Platinum 860W 80 PLUS Platinum Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($129.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 - OEM (64-bit) ($98.98 @ OutletPC)
Monitor: Dell U2713HM 60Hz 27.0" Monitor ($599.00 @ Amazon)
Keyboard: Topre Type Heaven Wired Standard Keyboard ($150.00 @ Amazon)
Mouse: Logitech G602 Wireless Optical Mouse ($67.77 @ Amazon)
Headphones: AKG K702 Headphones ($299.00 @ Adorama)
Total: $5049.47
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-12 05:16 EST-0500)

[Herecius]

Five thousand bucks? Well, ok, I guess. If you simply must be so pedestrian about it...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819116492 i7 3930k Sandy Bridge processor. Completely excessive for anything you could possible do, short of calculating the last digit of pi.

One of these will knock $1000 off your budget:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130897
You could run BF4 maxed out on a 3-monitor panorama display, don't you worry.

Get two of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820147194 for hard drives.

Get one of these just for your OS:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820167153

Get Windows 7 because Windows 7.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131801 for your mobo.

You've got about $2000 bucks left at this point. Let's spend it wisely, yeah?

Oh, who am I kidding. You know what you want for a case, right? Something nice and subtle, like this spacecraft, beamed to your desk from the future.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811517019

Don't skimp the keyboard. Get mechanical.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16823114026

Mouse. More buttons is better, right?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16826153064

You've still got decent good money left, here. Make it count.
Get THREE of these suckers. Sync them up, just the way you like it. Yeah, right there.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16824009424

Money is starting to dwindle down to around $800... oh shit! Need some memory. Get two orders of these for a total of 16, mostly useless GB of memory:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231416
Just slap these in there, you'll be good to go.

Can't forget that headset:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16826306009
That'll do you good. Don't get Turtle Beach, yo. Their service blows.

Man, you've got some cash left over, like $500! Well, can't let it go to waste.
http://www.amazon.com/Office-Star-Pr...keywords=Chair
Here is your command seat, Captain.

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Seriously though, there's this weird threshold where one is really spending too much on a PC, while at the same time having a budget that is still too limiting if you want to go truly crazy with your PC build. To go truly, genuinely insane with a mighty pinnacle of technology, you have to spend upwards of $10,000 or more. I'm not even joking, that's probably an underestimation.

When you're in the $5000 range, you're basically just building an incredibly expensive PC that can do the exact same stuff a PC for a third of the price or less can do. Basically, there's no point. Past around... $3000 or so, it should mostly only be PCs meant for spectacle, like nitrogen-cooled, ultra-overclocked, quad-SLI Titan setups or something.

[Jakexe]

I mean, this is a beast and still well under your budget but it'll keep you happy for a long time. I left out mouse/keyboard because that's really more personal choice.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($319.75 @ OutletPC)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($129.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($229.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($204.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($174.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($149.95 @ Amazon)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB Video Card ($735.66 @ Newegg)
Case: Fractal Design ARC XL ATX Mid Tower Case ($129.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Silverstone Strider Gold Evolution 750W 80 PLUS Gold Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($119.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B3ST/BLK/G/AS DVD/CD Writer ($25.65 @ NCIX US)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro - OEM (64-bit) ($139.98 @ OutletPC)
Monitor: Asus PB278Q 27.0" Monitor ($549.00 @ Amazon)
Total: $2909.93
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-12 05:28 EST-0500)

[Deleted]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($319.75 @ OutletPC)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($129.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: MSI Z87 MPOWER ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($183.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Ares Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($119.00 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($174.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($149.95 @ Amazon)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($735.66 @ Newegg)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($735.66 @ Newegg)
Case: Fractal Design ARC XL ATX Mid Tower Case ($129.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Thermaltake Smart M 750W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($79.99 @ Microcenter)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NS95 DVD/CD Writer ($15.00 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro - OEM (64-bit) ($139.98 @ OutletPC)
Monitor: Asus PB278Q 27.0" Monitor ($549.00 @ Amazon)
Total: $3462.94
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-12 06:24 EST-0500)

[Cyanotical]

I use autocad, rs mean, primavera, revit, and a few other contract management softwares
U.S.A

how relevant is this? the difference in professional parts and consumer parts can make or break your budget, but if you need a hybrid build:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i7-4930K 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor ($549.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14 SE2011 CPU Cooler ($74.99 @ Mwave)
Motherboard: Asus P9X79 WS SSI CEB LGA2011 Motherboard ($359.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Mushkin Blackline 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($284.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Corsair Neutron Series GTX 240GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($194.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($149.95 @ Amazon)
Video Card: ATI FirePro V7900 2GB Video Card ($627.27 @ TigerDirect)
Case: Fractal Design Define R4 (Titanium Grey) ATX Mid Tower Case ($109.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 1300 G2 1300W 80 PLUS Gold Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($199.99 @ NCIX US)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8 Professional (OEM) (64-bit) ($134.98 @ OutletPC)
Other: GTX-Titan ($999.99)
Other: GTX-Titan ($999.99)
Total: $4687.11
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-12 06:46 EST-0500)

[torment3d]

Since other people are giving you plenty of build ideas, I won't go there. Let me just say that you can build a computer that can run any game on max settings for the next 2 or 3 years (being conservative, even) for $1500 or less. Do NOT spend $5,000 unless you are so rich that you could just as easily set the money on fire without caring, because that would essentially be what you're doing. The reason I say this is because that's how computers always work. If you spend top dollar for each component, what you end up doing is buying a component that is only marginally better than the next couple of notches down the chain, and then you end up having that specific technology becoming obsolete before you even need the muscle that the particular component provides. This is sort of how RDRAM worked out a few years ago... It was the predecessor to SDRAM, cost a fucking fortune, and then DDR2 SDRAM and DDR3 SDRAM came out and overshadowed it, never letting it go anywhere.

[Deleted]

how relevant is this? the difference in professional parts and consumer parts can make or break your budget, but if you need a hybrid build:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i7-4930K 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor ($549.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14 SE2011 CPU Cooler ($74.99 @ Mwave)
Motherboard: Asus P9X79 WS SSI CEB LGA2011 Motherboard ($359.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Mushkin Blackline 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($284.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Corsair Neutron Series GTX 240GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($194.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($149.95 @ Amazon)
Video Card: ATI FirePro V7900 2GB Video Card ($627.27 @ TigerDirect)
Case: Fractal Design Define R4 (Titanium Grey) ATX Mid Tower Case ($109.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 1300 G2 1300W 80 PLUS Gold Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($199.99 @ NCIX US)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8 Professional (OEM) (64-bit) ($134.98 @ OutletPC)
Other: GTX-Titan ($999.99)
Other: GTX-Titan ($999.99)
Total: $4687.11
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-11-12 06:46 EST-0500)

the case is not compatible with the motherboard, u probably need to flash bios to make the cpu work and the ram is 1.6 volts which is just a no go.

[Toffie]

Agree with some of the builds above, I would change the 780 Ti for CF 290 (wait for aftermarket ones) for better performance and cuts you 670 $.

[Cyanotical]

the case is not compatible with the motherboard, u probably need to flash bios to make the cpu work and the ram is 1.6 volts which is just a no go.

it is compatible, asus boards can flash without a cpu, and 1.6 volts is fine

[Deleted]

Agree with some of the builds above, I would change the 780 Ti for CF 290 (wait for aftermarket ones) for better performance and cuts you 670 $.

Huh? 290 has awesome performance for the price but it is in no way better than 780 Ti.

[Deleted]

it is compatible, asus boards can flash without a cpu, and 1.6 volts is fine

However, combining SLI TITAN with the ATI compute card is probably not.

[Toffie]

Huh? 290 has awesome performance for the price but it is in no way better than 780 Ti.

It scales better in crossfire config.

Crysis 3

http://media.bestofmicro.com/5/1/408.../crysis-fr.png

BF4

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages...review,23.html

[Deleted]

Then again 780 Ti is a better overclocker. Especially if both are using the stock cooler.

BF4 is bit of a moot point since it's AMD optimised.

[Deleted]

Then again 780 Ti is a better overclocker. Especially if both are using the stock cooler.

BF4 is bit of a moot point since it's AMD optimised.

Not a moot point when this is one of the main games OP mentioned.

[Deleted]

Towards end of the year AMD cards should pull ahead anyway if Mantle performs half as well as rumours tell.

Then again a 780 Ti, especially if SLi'd, is plenty for BF4 at suggested resolutions.