Any thoughts before I buy this computer build?

Hi guys,

Before I pull the trigger, I would like some thoughts on this build. I’m going to get a few SSD drives on top of this list, but I am not listing them here, as I’m just trying to show the main components I’m after. Using for Adobe and Blender (movie editing rig, vfx, etc…)

$150 COOLER MASTER HAF 932 Advanced RC-932-KKN5-GP Steel Computer Case

$70 Noctua NH-U14S 140x150x25 ( NF-A15 PWM) SSO2-Bearing ( Self-stabilising oil-presure bearing ) CPU Cooler Item #:N82E16835608041

$660 G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 series 32GB (8 x 4GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2800 (PC4-22400) Desktop Memory

$140 Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-bit

$390 Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz LGA 2011-v3 Desktop Processor

$200 EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 P2 220-P2-1000-XR 1000W Power Supply

$285 ASRock Fatal1ty X99X Killer ATX Intel Motherboard

$700 for two GTX 970 video cards

  1. Is anything overkill?
  2. Is anything underkill?
  3. Any incompatible things I’ve researched?
  4. Anything I’ve missed?

Thanks!
Mr D

Looking like a pretty hot machine . . . should be able to do some killer stuff with that.

Does anyone know if I go with only 16gb of ram, but get the 3200mhz speed, will it be a better choice over 32gb 2800 mhz ram? They are priced similarly.

Hi, ram speed make not a real difference in practice.
May you can find tests about this.
Since I rarely use my 12 GB ram full and if you don´t do often fluid simulations it is may to think about to go for the cheaper ram but only 16 GB and buy a i7-5930K.
You can add ram later easy but change the CPU make no sense price/performance wise.
It´s hard to sell a used CPU also.
This is really a beast what you are building there.

Cheers, mib

That’s a beast! by the way, for the RAM, maybe 32GB are a bit too much, unless you’re doing some really intensive (production level i would say) works or really high definition large scale fluid sim. I would go with a bit less RAM and maybe put a bit more money for the processor or the gpu, 660$ are really too much for the RAM for me, right now i have 16GB of Corsair Vengeance RAM for around 80$ and it works perfectly! Now, i watched sinthetic benchmarks, and in terms of rendering DDR3 and DDR4 are equal, you would never notice any difference. So i would suggest you to buy DDR3 RAM instead of DDR4, as for now you wouldn’t have any noticeable speedup then use the rest of the money to buy 2 980’s instead of the 970, or even better 3 970’s :wink:

I’ve got 16GB at home and honestly it’s not enough. At work we’ve got 32, and even that runs out occasionally.

It depends on what you do obviously, so buy 16GB and if you find it’s not enough, get another 16.

Looks pretty sweet. One thing to check is that the motherboard may have 2 (+) pcie slots, but some cards are super oversize and won’t fit if there are other components jammed next to the slots.

Great advice. I will consider that.

I’ll definitely look into the benchmarks of DDR3 vs DDR4 in that case.

As for the reason I’m getting 32gb ram is because the good folks at the Adobe forums recommend that. Especially with After Effects relying heavily on ram.

Just got done with more research. DDR3 will NOT work with X99 systems. So that settles that. DDR4 is a must have now. Now the question of which speed DD4 is what I am looking at.