(07-08-2015, 12:55 PM)Nintonito Wrote:Yeah, I'm a dirty cheater :p(07-08-2015, 10:34 AM)TehGuy Wrote:(07-08-2015, 08:47 AM)Nintonito Wrote:(07-08-2015, 04:36 AM)admin89 Wrote: $5565 on Digital Storm
I could build the same PC for half price
Half the price is a bit ambitious. I mean the ram alone is a full $1000, the SLI 980 Ti's are another $1200. The SSD's add another $500-700. That's already halfway and we haven't tallied nearly the full system. The CPU could easily be $800+, the motherboard is in the $300 range. At best without a Black Friday sale you'd be looking at saving $1000, which is not a small amount of money, but I doubt the OP cares if he's willing to pay that much.
1. RAM - you can find 32 GB kits for around $260.
2. SSDs - both actually tally up to about $1500
3. CPU + Mobo - CPU runs about $560, and yeah the mobo is stupid expensive for what it is. Either way, costs can be greatly cut by dropping to a 5820k (you just lose some clock speed and PCI lanes) and getting a less (stupidly) expensive board (and then just OCing the GPUs yourself).
ANYHOW, to kinda prove admin89's point
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor ($394.98 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Nepton 240M 76.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI Plus ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($199.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws 4 series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory ($269.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($97.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($151.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($649.99 @ B&H)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($649.99 @ B&H)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 1300 G2 1300W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($172.04 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer ($18.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $2705.84
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-07-07 20:28 EDT-0400
and that's all without case and OS; took a bit of liberty, though, cause I'm more of a "SSD for OS/important stuff that actually benefits from SSDs and stupid amounts of HDD space for everything else (gaems/media)"
DISCLAIMER: all done in $USD, YMMV depending on country and whatever outrageous prices they put on stuff (read: South America, Australia, etc.)
That's actually quite well done, but you DID technically downgrade, which is cheating it just a bit, because the pre built price could be lower with a spec cut as well. Personally I think if he wants to blow an extra $$1500-2000 for a painless experience, I think he is entitled to do so. People shouldn't be made to feel like they need to learn how to build computers and deal with any future problems themselves.
But yeah, it's up to OP what they wanna do; I just like giving options
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