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5k rig. Jeez. you could have pretty much anything
Tell me about it - I'm more jelly than a trifle!!Originally Posted by UKnoble
The trick will be to try and figure around the diminishing returns thing, getting best future-proofed bang for buck, while not simply wasting it like a Ferrari on the Isle of Jersey (40mph speed limit, drive everywhere and not leave 1st gear).
5K, blimey I'm not even sure you can sanely spend that much. The 6 core Dell Xeon workstations we use at work don't come near that.
If the target is Elite, I suppose the first question is how much desk space is available. For that money, you could get triple 27" 1440p FreeSync gaming monitors, each with an R9 Fury to power it, on an i7 with 16GB of ram and a decent SSD. You could possibly drop down to a couple of R9 390 cards.
Three of these, they are on Amazon at about £435 each: http://gaming.benq.com/gaming-monitor/xl2730z/
Three R9 Fury cards, £410 each.
£300 for an i7, £100 for a motherboard, £70 for 16GB of ram.
I guess it would need £100 on a PSU
That's 3K going really quite over the top, I think I would struggle to justify the last 2K.
Right on commander!
... and don't forget to allow £70 for a copy of Windows
Back to the land of the sane, you could suggest one of those Benq monitors and a R9 390 or Fury. That is a simple easy plug in replacement, the FX 8350 will be fine, and if he does want an OTT i7 rig those parts can carry across.
Alternatively he could go for one of the extra wide monitors.
As I have mentioned above, it's not. He plays plenty of other games too and will likely want to play more future releases.
Just about enough for a single 27" 1440 144Hz Gsync.
I was thinking X99/DDR4 with a 980Ti.
Might go watercooled.
Requires longevity and performance with minimal maintenance, to the point of not even dusting the case out if possible - He's weird like that. I put it down to being a former Mac user, where even your passwords and security were done for you. He won't even let me service his car for free, happily paying hundreds of pounds for the local garage to do it!!
Sounds like you have a plan then!
I suppose the big question, how much disk space does the current machine have in use so can he fit in just a 1TB ssd?
I have ideas, yes, although His Fussiness is not making it easy...
Pah... barely 500GB split across two HDDs.
I was thinking 250GB System SSD, with a couple 3TB storage on whatever drives sound good. One of the WD types, I imagine... Green? Black? Need to read up on them.
One for games, one for media and extra files.
Blue is the desktop choice but only has a 2 year warranty. Black is faster and has a 5 year warranty, but you are paying for that. If you are running a couple in mirror config then Red drives could be your best bet.
Last drive I bought was a Toshiba P series, seems nice OK. Am hoping the HGST influence on Toshiba means it lasts well.
Sounds like the correct choice would be that 1TB SSD though.
Lol, good luck.
I still think plugging a 980ti and monitor upgrade on the existing 8350 would make a stonking start.
It's a start, but AM3 is kinda old now and AMD is taking an awful lot of flak right now.
Last thing he wants is to need/want an upgrade within the next 3-5 years, so I figure the latest will stand him in good stead for now...?
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