StarKillerX
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Hello, first let me apologize for this wall of text, I normally would not include so much information but feel that my situation, and the amount of spoon feeding I am asking for, demands a reason why my question is so general.
I fell off the earth for a long while after having spinal surgery, and then a second surgery a year later to fix issues that developed after the first surgery, and now I just started water therapy in the hopes of dealing with issues that have developed since then (as well as are the result of 2 years of being basically home bound.)
In addition to the above, during that time between the pain and the medication everything has been sort of a blur and I stopped doing much of anything and basically just watched game play videos on YouTube so I am more out of date on PC hardware than I have ever been, since the mid 80's.
My mind has finally started clearing up as of lately, and while my wife and I were watching a movie my son came out and asked if he could use my computer, because his i5 3750k/GTX 670 was having trouble running Rainbow Six Siege with a decent framerate. So after I told him it was fine and he left the room my wife turned to me and said “Why don’t you build yourself a new computer and then give him your current rig,” which is an i7 6700k, Asus 980ti Strix, 16GB RAM and 2 1TB Samsung 850 Evo SSDs, she then went on to ask “would $5,000 be enough to build a new computer and get you one of the extra wide monitors that you’ve been looking at?”
You know, I always love my wife, but sometimes I just REALLY LOVE HER!
So I was not expecting to build a new system anytime soon, and of course I am way behind on my knowledge of current and near term components, so I thought I would ask here. Being as close to the holiday sales starting I thought I would plan on building in Dec or Jan, and take advantage of any sales that my pop up between now and then.
This will be a gaming system, I want to mess around with video editing, but not anywhere seriously enough to change the focus of the rig from gaming to productivity. While $5k is a soft limit I wouldn’t mind keeping it below $4k with the monitor, although if there are good performance based reasons I would be willing to even go a little over the $5k. Also I am leaning toward building a custom loop to cool the CPU and GPU, but I’m not sure if I will do that right from the start or if I will just build it with an aio and then build the loop at a later date.
So, with a $4-5k budget, what would everyone here suggest for components? I assume most will say i7 8700k on a z370 mobo, etc but I'm not sure, I know AMD has come back with a bang but are they competitive performance wise, and are there specific things I should avoid?
I fell off the earth for a long while after having spinal surgery, and then a second surgery a year later to fix issues that developed after the first surgery, and now I just started water therapy in the hopes of dealing with issues that have developed since then (as well as are the result of 2 years of being basically home bound.)
In addition to the above, during that time between the pain and the medication everything has been sort of a blur and I stopped doing much of anything and basically just watched game play videos on YouTube so I am more out of date on PC hardware than I have ever been, since the mid 80's.
My mind has finally started clearing up as of lately, and while my wife and I were watching a movie my son came out and asked if he could use my computer, because his i5 3750k/GTX 670 was having trouble running Rainbow Six Siege with a decent framerate. So after I told him it was fine and he left the room my wife turned to me and said “Why don’t you build yourself a new computer and then give him your current rig,” which is an i7 6700k, Asus 980ti Strix, 16GB RAM and 2 1TB Samsung 850 Evo SSDs, she then went on to ask “would $5,000 be enough to build a new computer and get you one of the extra wide monitors that you’ve been looking at?”
You know, I always love my wife, but sometimes I just REALLY LOVE HER!
So I was not expecting to build a new system anytime soon, and of course I am way behind on my knowledge of current and near term components, so I thought I would ask here. Being as close to the holiday sales starting I thought I would plan on building in Dec or Jan, and take advantage of any sales that my pop up between now and then.
This will be a gaming system, I want to mess around with video editing, but not anywhere seriously enough to change the focus of the rig from gaming to productivity. While $5k is a soft limit I wouldn’t mind keeping it below $4k with the monitor, although if there are good performance based reasons I would be willing to even go a little over the $5k. Also I am leaning toward building a custom loop to cool the CPU and GPU, but I’m not sure if I will do that right from the start or if I will just build it with an aio and then build the loop at a later date.
So, with a $4-5k budget, what would everyone here suggest for components? I assume most will say i7 8700k on a z370 mobo, etc but I'm not sure, I know AMD has come back with a bang but are they competitive performance wise, and are there specific things I should avoid?
