Jumping back into the PC world :)

[mfenn]

About the case being specifically designed for air cooling. I see on the product description and pretty much every review/unboxing talk about it's ability for water cooling. I'm actually now torn between the 540 and the new 750d, but think I'll stick with the 540 due to size.

There is a reason the case is called the Corsair Carbide Series Air 540. Check out Anandtech's review where Dustin digs into the cooling design.

"Corsair hit a lot of the right notes with the Carbide Air 540. For the first time they've produced a case that has excellent air cooling performance. This was pretty much the last issue I was having with their hardware, and it's largely been resolved here."

I think I'm gonna stick with pretty close to what I planned. I spend a lot of my free time either on my comp or gaming on console, so I see this as money well spent. Yes I am looking to save some money but have done tons of research, and would like to buy parts I won't have buyers remorse about. No I prolly won't notice a difference between part A or part B, but mentally I'll feel like I do.

When all is said and done I want a computer I'm gonna have no regrets about. I don't wanna be kicking myself a week later about not buying a certain part. I see no point in buying cheaper now to save for the next great thing. I've been a part of this never ending upgrade cycle before, and am gonna avoid it like the plague. Get the best I can now and be happy 🙂

You can certainly spend a lot of money trying to avoid an upgrade cycle, but you've picked an ineffective path towards that goal. Specifically, you're spending a lot of money on "gamer" parts (mobo, CLC, RAM) that exist only to separate you from your money and do not impact performance. If you really want to maintain high performance over the longest term possible, you should spend money where it matters: the GPUs. That's why I said you could cut other parts to get GTX 780 SLI right off the bat.

It's your money at the end of the day, but buying top end parts in an attempt to avoid an upgrade cycle is a fool's errand. You simply cannot buy a computer today that will run the games of 5 years from now at all max and high framerates. Your overall best bet from a longevity point of view is to make the changes I suggested but stick to a single GPU. Then you can use that money to upgrade the GPU in a few years to a much faster model.

 

[Braidster]

There is a reason the case is called the Corsair Carbide Series Air 540. Check out Anandtech's review where Dustin digs into the cooling design.

"Corsair hit a lot of the right notes with the Carbide Air 540. For the first time they've produced a case that has excellent air cooling performance. This was pretty much the last issue I was having with their hardware, and it's largely been resolved here."



You can certainly spend a lot of money trying to avoid an upgrade cycle, but you've picked an ineffective path towards that goal. Specifically, you're spending a lot of money on "gamer" parts (mobo, CLC, RAM) that exist only to separate you from your money and do not impact performance. If you really want to maintain high performance over the longest term possible, you should spend money where it matters: the GPUs. That's why I said you could cut other parts to get GTX 780 SLI right off the bat.

It's your money at the end of the day, but buying top end parts in an attempt to avoid an upgrade cycle is a fool's errand. You simply cannot buy a computer today that will run the games of 5 years from now at all max and high framerates. Your overall best bet from a longevity point of view is to make the changes I suggested but stick to a single GPU. Then you can use that money to upgrade the GPU in a few years to a much faster model.

Thank you I appreciate your honesty, and your attempt to give me some good advice. For me this is a big decision process as dropping $2000-$3000 for me is a major purchase, and i've been researching this for months. I've posted on a couple difference forums for more input, but really I think it's confused me more with all the different conflicting info. Even the sales guy I was dealing with was pushing me for some higher priced parts in some instances, and cheaper in others. Like for example for my storage drive I considered going with a WD green to save some money, and he told me to stick with the Black due to my wanting to do video editing and video uploading.

I didn't mean to come off rude in my post just feel i'm going around in circles with this, and at the end of the day I just wanna feel good with my purchase. To clear my goals up i'll list some points for what this PC will be used for....

-PC gaming @ 1080p games like BF4, Minecraft, COD, etc....
-Broadcasting games through OBS from both the PC and PS3/PS4
-Beginning to do Video editing and uploading
-To be able to run multiple programs including games with no hicups
-Everyday use as this will be my only computer

 

[mfenn]

There's nothing wrong with your goals, you can certainly build a computer for $2000 that achieves them for a 2-3 year time horizon. You will have to upgrade it, so better to cut out the fluff parts and save that money for newer components down the line. As the wise man (Ken G6) once said, "The only way to future proof is to save money to spend on future parts."

 

[lehtv]

-PC gaming @ 1080p games like BF4, Minecraft, COD, etc....
-Broadcasting games through OBS from both the PC and PS3/PS4
-Beginning to do Video editing and uploading
-To be able to run multiple programs including games with no hicups
-Everyday use as this will be my only computer

To be honest, even a <$1500 computer could do all this fine (like the build I proposed minus the second 770). For 1080p gaming all you need is one fast graphics card. For streaming, you need a fast CPU. For HD video editing, a fast CPU and 16GB RAM. For multi tasking and everyday use, all you need is an SSD. These four items which are of most relevance for performance cost about $900. The cost of the rest of the build is very flexible and will depend on how much you want to pay for extra features, storage space, looks, the "high end factor" etc.