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I would never waste 4k on a PC. 1.5 k to 2 k would be the highest I would spend but even that is pushing it. the other money would go towards a Xbox One and PS4 and pre order a bunch of games.



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I would wait another year at least, and get a GPU with hdmi 2.0 output.
No point in buying that now and not being able to use it on a 4k projector at 60hz when they become affordable.



I would wait for DDR4 in spring ^_-



RenCutypoison said:
I would wait for DDR4 in spring ^_-


I wouldn't personally.

DRAM speeds have very little effect on CPU performance, especially when you throw in a cost ratio.
Plus DDR3 is only going to continue to become more and more expensive, it's already triple the price it was a few years ago, DDR4 isn't going to be any cheaper.

And on the flipside, Broadwell on the socket 1150 will either have a dual-memory memory controller where it supports DDR3+DDR4 where DDR4 will be supported on a revised chipset... Or a plain DDR3 memory controller.
Haswell-E will probably move over to DDR4, which is highly likely going to require a new motherboard anyway.

That's compounded by the fact that DDR4 isn't going to be substantually faster than DDR3 anyway, at-least initially. - The standard/basic speeds will probably be equivalent to a high-end DDR3 kit. (Samsung Green DDR3 modules overclock like champs!)



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If i had $4000 to spend on a PC i would wait for the next gen GPUs and for a new haswell E series CPU from Intel so I could have an Octa core CPU and DDR4 ram and HDMI 2.0. Especially since my current PC has NO issues running any games on ultra at 1440p.



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Meh... there is no challenge building this PC. Anyone can spend money and buy a massive powerful PC.

How about adding custom loop Water-Cooling or fitting all that spec in to an mATX build? Then we can talk what goes where and how...



to be honest i'd never spend so much money on a rig, and i rather have that feeling that i crafted something cool out of a somewhat constricted budget. with that being said, i can sign the OP's Rig, only that i would not use more than 1 GPU. because electricity bill. mine's way too high anyway.



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Crystalchild said:
to be honest i'd never spend so much money on a rig, and i rather have that feeling that i crafted something cool out of a somewhat constricted budget. with that being said, i can sign the OP's Rig, only that i would not use more than 1 GPU. because electricity bill. mine's way too high anyway.


The majority of the time a PC is in an idle state, when that occurs the CPU will enter a low-powered state.
When you're running multiple graphics cards and not doing anything intensive, the extra graphics cards are switched off. (AMD ZeroCore.)
Then the primary card also enters a low-powered state.

However, if you're doing a compute job, having faster and more graphics cards can actually save your power, the power increase from adding extra graphics cards isn't a linear increase due to how you can never get 100% utilisation out of every functional block in a GPU.
Then add the "hurry up and finish" ideal, where the faster something can be processed, the sooner it can power down and return to an idle/switched off state.

If for instance you had one CPU with a 95 watt TDP and a second CPU with a 95 watt TDP at load, but one processor was twice as fast, the faster processor would actually use less power as it can get to idle faster.

Power Supplies can have a fairly large impact on electricity consumption as well, the more efficient the less energy that is lost in the conversion.
I live in Australia myself, so my energy costs are roughly 20% lower than yours in Germany, so it's still expensive, but having a powerfull PC with 4 GPU's hasn't impacted my energy consumption to any great degree compared to about 4 years ago when I was only running 2 GPU's.



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Pemalite said:
Crystalchild said:
to be honest i'd never spend so much money on a rig, and i rather have that feeling that i crafted something cool out of a somewhat constricted budget. with that being said, i can sign the OP's Rig, only that i would not use more than 1 GPU. because electricity bill. mine's way too high anyway.


The majority of the time a PC is in an idle state, when that occurs the CPU will enter a low-powered state.
When you're running multiple graphics cards and not doing anything intensive, the extra graphics cards are switched off. (AMD ZeroCore.)
Then the primary card also enters a low-powered state.

However, if you're doing a compute job, having faster and more graphics cards can actually save your power, the power increase from adding extra graphics cards isn't a linear increase due to how you can never get 100% utilisation out of every functional block in a GPU.
Then add the "hurry up and finish" ideal, where the faster something can be processed, the sooner it can power down and return to an idle/switched off state.

If for instance you had one CPU with a 95 watt TDP and a second CPU with a 95 watt TDP at load, but one processor was twice as fast, the faster processor would actually use less power as it can get to idle faster.

Power Supplies can have a fairly large impact on electricity consumption as well, the more efficient the less energy that is lost in the conversion.
I live in Australia myself, so my energy costs are roughly 20% lower than yours in Germany, so it's still expensive, but having a powerfull PC with 4 GPU's hasn't impacted my energy consumption to any great degree compared to about 4 years ago when I was only running 2 GPU's.

Oh thanks, i didnt know that, i thought that all the GPU's are trying to flex their muscles when heavy stuff like games show up. (maybe i really should get a second R9 270 then. :3 hurpadurp.)



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if i had 4000 Norwegian Kroner to buy a PC it wouldn't have been a very powerful PC