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That PSU won't cut it. Go for a higher wattage - Nvidia says 500W minimum, I'd say stay 600-800W range. What are you looking to do with 4/5k? Gaming, or video editing? You could save a lot of money if you want, the build isn't exactly optimized for price, but it's your money!

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That PSU won't cut it. Go for a higher wattage - Nvidia says 500W minimum, I'd say stay 600-800W range. What are you looking to do with 4/5k? Gaming, or video editing? You could save a lot of money if you want, the build isn't exactly optimized for price, but it's your money!

Thanks!

Well, I really do want to experience the "retina screen" on a Windows build. I asked this question on another forum and then said that the CPU and the CPU fan is not going to cut it and the GPU is not going to get it either. Can someone help me edit that list or tell me what I can get?

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Well, unless you're going to be doing serious 3D gaming or some other majorly processor intensive tasks with it, it's a bit overkill.  But if you just have a bunch of money to burn, knock yourself out.

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I have to echo sinetheo's sentiments.  But I also have to ask, why are you asking about this build as far as its quality?  You are buying the most expensive of everything and spending 3 times more money than any normal person would need (i7 8 core CPU?), but you seem to want to know if it's any good?  I'm sorry, but it almost just seems like you're doing some mock form of boasting, but disguising it with this plea of 'tell me if this is okay, because I don't know anything about computers'.  But I could be wrong, of course, and if I am, I'm sorry.  I don't mean to offend.

 

But you could get a couple monitors, save about 600 bucks on a cheaper but still more than capable CPU, halve your memory (no one needs 32 GB of RAM), and maybe get a 250 GB SSD, and a 3 TB mechanical HDD. 

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I have to echo sinetheo's sentiments.  But I also have to ask, why are you asking about this build as far as its quality?  You are buying the most expensive of everything and spending 3 times more money than any normal person would need (i7 8 core CPU?), but you seem to want to know if it's any good?  I'm sorry, but it almost just seems like you're doing some mock form of boasting, but disguising it with this plea of 'tell me if this is okay, because I don't know anything about computers'.  But I could be wrong, of course, and if I am, I'm sorry.  I don't mean to offend.

 

But you could get a couple monitors, save about 600 bucks on a cheaper but still more than capable CPU, halve your memory (no one needs 32 GB of RAM), and maybe get a 250 GB SSD, and a 3 TB mechanical HDD. 

 

I do not think it was a mock.

 

I did OT as a contractor last year and earned not only a fulltime job at this client but a big raise in pay and title for my work. I had an economic phenom II and wanted to splurge on a high end system :-D

 

However, I did not go overboard ... well too much. haha. We are geeks and want the best if we can afford. But being a tech I and learning virtualization and updating my MCSA and cisco certs as well as starting a startup that is web based mean using a VMWare Workstation to host VM's.

 

I have 2 raid 0s in SSDs. MY GOD! A different world than using a mechanical disk with 8 gigs of ram. I had to compromise my video card and get only a 4 core i7 to keep my budget under $2,000. All usage my friend as I play a few games but wanted real virtualization speed for IIS, Linux LAMP, exchange, server 2k, ancient IE browsers in XP all running at the same time on my host. 

 

But to my surprise my 16 gigs I have to really try to launch everything I have including 8 vms and all my apps and a game to get even close to the limit.

 

If I were a coder and compiled stuff I would go with 1 128 gig SSD and put all that cash into an expensive i7 extreme for faster compiling. A gamer get an i5 and get 1 large SSD and put the cash into an SLI video cards with a large mechanical disk as some games are huge these days etc.

 

Anyway this user needs a better PSU and some monitors if he is an enthusiat. People with cash spend $40,000 on bathtubs for crying out loud. It is up to them how to spend. But we can offer advise.

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I do not think it was a mock.

 

I did OT as a contractor last year and earned not only a fulltime job at this client but a big raise in pay and title for my work. I had an economic phenom II and wanted to splurge on a high end system :-D

 

However, I did not go overboard ... well too much. haha. We are geeks and want the best if we can afford. But being a tech I and learning virtualization and updating my MCSA and cisco certs as well as starting a startup that is web based mean using a VMWare Workstation to host VM's.

 

I have 2 raid 0s in SSDs. MY GOD! A different world than using a mechanical disk with 8 gigs of ram. I had to compromise my video card and get only a 4 core i7 to keep my budget under $2,000. All usage my friend as I play a few games but wanted real virtualization speed for IIS, Linux LAMP, exchange, server 2k, ancient IE browsers in XP all running at the same time on my host. 

 

But to my surprise my 16 gigs I have to really try to launch everything I have including 8 vms and all my apps and a game to get even close to the limit.

 

If I were a coder and compiled stuff I would go with 1 128 gig SSD and put all that cash into an expensive i7 extreme for faster compiling. A gamer get an i5 and get 1 large SSD and put the cash into an SLI video cards with a large mechanical disk as some games are huge these days etc.

 

Anyway this user needs a better PSU and some monitors if he is an enthusiat. People with cash spend $40,000 on bathtubs for crying out loud. It is up to them how to spend. But we can offer advise...

 

 

 

One last thing ... looking at the specs if you game a lot I would get 2 970s and downgrade to an i5 and 16 gigs of ram for the same money. It said dual but when I clicked on it is means 2x the ram. Not 2 970s together unless I am wrong? GPU will be the bottleneck in 2015. 

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I'm not boasting. This computer will be used as my everyday use computer as well as my work computer.

I will be doing a lot of programming, some rendering, and some gaming.

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I can not stress again for a dual monitor.

 

I just got mine last month and stuck with 1080p so I would not have bad gaming performance as I was not ready to get SLI video cards and throw out my still excellent 770 which only has 2 gigs of video ram :-)

 

4k is very demanding and not all apps are compatible. Chrome had issues for the longest time. If you do large code bases and spending time compiling I would keep the pricey CPU or get a cheaper 6 core, halve the ram to 16 gigs, halve the ssd for 512 gigs.

 

Then use the cost savings for a 3 TB mechanical disk + 2nd monitor and better power supply. That will be a smoking system and you won't regret halving the above as you won't see a benefit. The 2nd monitor will be quite a nice one and a productivity enhancer.

Thank you.

To be honest, I just wanted a Mac retina screen display but for this build. Do you suggest any video cards and/monitors that can compare with the MacBook pros with retina screens?

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You know if you love the macbook you can get one and run Windows via bootcamp on it? They are terrible for gaming as the gpu is integrated or the expensive ones are not powerful enough with gamer grade cards. Fine for photoshop and movie editing.

 

Asus makes a very expensive http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-monitor-90lm00u0b01370 screen.

 

My 2nd monitor I bought is the 1080p version of that, which is half the price :-) Super bright. But keep in mind that one is $700 for the display. Apple makes great quality displays and with both you pay for. Also make sure you use displayport (not HDMI) as the monitors get as low as 30hz otherwise. A flourscenet light is 50 hz so imagine staring at one all day? ... you get the picture :-) 

 

Some 4k monitors use terrible 30 hz to save cash so it is choppy and terrible even with a display port adapter. 

 

The above example is 144 hz which won't cause headaches and is fluid. But pricey. A graphics designer might be better able to answer with things like color calibration as Apple caters to this market. Actually they do sell monitors seperately that are pricey but work on a pc too?

Thanks for that. Anything similar to something like the retina screen? I don't want to run boot camp. Also, what do I need for a GPU?

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Thanks but any monitors for Windows made by like Samsung, Dell, or ASUS or something?

Also, what kind of GPU would I need for my build?

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I would say put 4K monitor on hold. Do not buy them as tech is not mature yet. Read it's reviews on Amazon. People are complaining about inconsistencies. Moreover, GTX 970 will barely run anything at 4K with full graphics settings.

 

Why don't you get a Nvidia G-Sync compatible 1080p monitor instead?

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YIKES

 

What are you building a server or next supercomputer? $4,000 is a large amount of money unless it is expected to pay big ROI return on investment.

 

It all boils down to what do you plan to use that computer for? 

 

My observations:

1. No one needs that amount of ram.

2. That Power Supply will ahve trouble. Good news without a mechanical disk and with the latest i7s they sip power compared to 1st generation i7s which used 350% more power. But go with 600 watts. Do not go over 800 watts as this is overkill on modern cpus unless you have 4 monster gpus mining bitcoins or something

3. Get a mechanical disk in addition if you plan any serious storage

4. No one ... 95% of all users do not need that kind of cpu. 8 cores hyperthreaded is insane for non servers. There are a few niche uses and compiling c++ code is the only thing I can think of. Games and even video editing will be overkill with that.

5. I can not give recommendations until I know your use cases. - plan to run Virtual machines for work, compile code, render artwork in 3d, type word documents, frag a few buddies in call of duty, etc. All require specific uses

6. Stick with Windows 7. Windows 8 is designed for tablets and does not have the rock solid history of 7 ... ok ducks on that one :-)

 

If you do use video editing I would get more storage. That expensive 1 tb samsung pro is big but 4k video editing can use many TBs. The good news is an old fashioned mechanical disk will do fine for that task as it is all 100% non sequential at a fixed rate and you can get a 6 TB

 

But what is the use. If you want a very high end system that will not go obsolete fast and is expandable my advise would be to get a cheaper high quality motherboard like an Asus sabertooth of the $180 equivalent from gigabyte with solid japanese caps, chokes, and VRMs for long usage. Get at least a 600 -800 watt power supply. Do not go over as that will harm the life as it will go up and down constantly due to the lower power usage. Go down with 16 gigs of ram. This will be plenty. Get a devils canyon 4 core for cheaper ddr 3 ram. Or go with just a 4 - 6 core i7 or even an i5.

 

Games won't benefit with an i7 generally anyway.

 

... use the cost savings for a 2nd monitor :-)

Some may need that much RAM. For instance, I'm studying for VMware's VCP certification and using VMware Workstation to simulate ESXi hosts uses a ton of RAM. So OP, if that or some other situation applies to you go for it, but if not then he's probably right.

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Some may need that much RAM. For instance, I'm studying for VMware's VCP certification and using VMware Workstation to simulate ESXi hosts uses a ton of RAM. So OP, if that or some other situation applies to you go for it, but if not then he's probably right.

 

I got the ram for VMWare Workstation and still haven't approached it. I got 16 gigs. :-) A SSD raid 0 helps too

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