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Upgrading to a New PC from Core i7-3770K

manson21

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Purpose - Photo/Video Editing, Microsoft Access, Heavy Microsoft Excel, Streaming Media & Gaming.

Request Help on the Monitor - Love the Dell for the KVM switch as i can connect my XPS to it also would like everything 4K and while sticking to 32"

What do you guys think of this Build?
 

Bond007

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So obviously you are going all out on this. Even with the expensive components I have a few thoughts:

1. Power supply is overkill. Even with those high end CPU/GPU, 750-850watt is more than enough. Some possible options while still going platinum like the one you initially picked:

2. That ram is very expensive for what it is. Sticking with similar latency and freq, and RGB:

3. With spending as much as you are, remember the 3950X is being released very soon. You could easily shave some money spend from lights etc to pay for the upgrade to a 16 core if that interests you. I only suggest it as this build is pretty high end.
 

JD

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On the RAM front, I guess you're going with 4 DIMMs for the look, but I think you'd be better off with 2x16GB instead so that you could upgrade to 64GB down the road.

I'd agree about the 3950X if you can wait for it and work it into your budget.
 

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