Does this sound good for my new desktop

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optimusmikey

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Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-990X six-core Extreme Edition [3.46GHz, 1.5MB L2 + 12MB shared L3 cache)

24GB DDR3-1066MHz SDRAM [6 DIMMs]

2TB 7200 rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive

1.5GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 [2 DVI, HDMI, VGA adpt]
Two 2711x 27-inch LED Monitors

Blu-ray writer & SuperMulti DVD burner 2 of them

and the power supply is yet to be known but I will be doing 3d animation, heavy hd editing and rendering and playing games like Starcraft 2, Command and Conquer, World in Conflict and Order of War not very sure if this is over kill
 
unless doing all of that at once, all of that stuff is overkill as hell. this is what you'd want going off the 4k budget from the last thread

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.750180

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.751438

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.743557

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136792

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233154

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231473

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106346

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116986

for the hdd's, i meant to put 2, you can raid them so they read and write even faster, and these are some of the fasts hdd's, so that's be increadibly fast, then you also have the ssd for super fast booting and you can install some crucial/most used things on it like the os and your editing softwares and the videos currently being edited, and if you get 2 of them that would make it even faster than it already is.

and a workstation card might be a little better for animation and all so you might consider the nvidia quadro 5000 or 4000, and you can either have i think both in, or you may have to only have one in for the drivers to work properly.

and i will also post the other build but other than the os this might suit you more than perfectly, and i'd say order 1 other set of this ram so you'll have the full 16, really you only need 12gb's max but since you're you i'm guessing you want the 16.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.722624
 
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That extra RAM will be just sitting there, doing nothing. It's not worth it just to say you have that amount of RAM.

And a 2600k is a quad core, and one of the fastest CPUs out there. The performance gains from a 2600k to a 990x will be minimal, not worth $700.
 
forgot what, or are you saying forget it? and still, the 2600k is more than powerfull enough for what you want.
 
don't start again on the 990x, but i just want to say that the 2600k is 4 cores threaded as 8 so each core performs closer to 1.3 cores, but the 990x has 6 cores threaded as 12, but the 990x cores are slower in comparison, and if you really want the speed than you can wait until next year when the 6 core version of the 2600k is out, i think it's the like 3960X or something like that, which will use the lga2011 socket.
 
did you see the 2 build links i put up in like the first reply, or the second post. both used the 2600k and both also used a pure overkill gpu that can prob go down to the 580, maybe the 590 or 6990 max.
 
I can recall someone on these forums lamenting they had paid over $600 for a processor that was now worth only a fraction of what he had originally paid for it. Processors and desktop computers definitely do not hold their value.

It is wise to shop for bargains that give processing power without costing a lot of money.
 
yeah, there's a list of the best cpus for each price catagory, and the guy who does it puts in there that after the i5 2500k the cpus have much more rapidly dimminishing returns and don't hold their value enough for him to see as recomendable.
 
the i5 performs the same or barely worse at everything for 100 less. and how do you know you don't like the i5 just because every comp at your school uses the i7, that makes no since.
 
I know its just my opinion I like i7 better I almost had a hexacore i7 on black friday last year but my Mom said no because it had no monitor and it was for $800-$900 now I have my own money so she cant say anymore
 
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