Talked with DarkTide on TS and he directed me here. So, I'm trying to keep it under $1,500 for the initial build. I've got a 250GB SSD and probably about 10TBs of HDD's laying around, and a few old cases that I can repurpose until I get more money for a case I like. Here's the link to the minimal build: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/4CHVqs Ideally I'd like to add 2 more GFX cards (3 monitors @4K) to the build and a 1TB SSD drive. It will be used for Gaming (duh), Video editing (including 4K editing), 3D/2D animation, and as a audio recording station (voice/music). With the current build, is it enough to comfortably do all that? My current rig takes ~45 minutes to render a 3D screenshot.
nothing will play well with 3 monitors at 4K resolution, it isn't possible with todays (or yesterdays? IDK we will see in an hour or so) graphics cards. You also want to stay away from triple GPUs, they do not work well. There are many areas where you actually get worse performance than running 2 GPUs. What is your current rig hardware? And to do your renders, are you using a program that is capable of using CUDA processing instead of the CPU? That would greatly speed things up. I also dont think you will be able to get a really high end multi GPU setup and 1TB SSD type build for anything close to $1500. That is about where the upper limit is for single GPU setups of pretty much the best computers you can buy. You need to be above the $2000 area for a second top graphics card.
I'm at $1,500 for the initial. I know the second GFX Card will tack another 5-600 onto that, but that's a future upgrade. I'm using Daz3D currently (cause free) so no idea about the CUDA processing, etc. I'm still new to it. My current rig is an Alienware X51 R2 CPU Intel Core i5 4430 @ 3.00GHz 53 °C Haswell 22nm Technology RAM 8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 800MHz (11-11-11-28) Motherboard Alienware 0PGRP5 (SOCKET 0) 58 °C Graphics 2752H (1920x1080@60Hz) Intel HD Graphics 4600 (Dell) 1023MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 645 (NVIDIA) 42 °C ForceWare version: 332.66 SLI Disabled I guess the 3@4K is just a dream right now. Duo cards running 3@1080 that can handle any game I throw at it will most likely be the main use.
That current upgrade plan should be able to handle Triple display 1080p gaming without much of an issue. The main question is the games you play on how it will perform and what settings you plan to use. The ram is kinda overkill, 16BG should be able to handle all the animation and editing you need, but it's nice future proofing. I run a dual monitor display with my rig on a single MSI GTX 980 and still get perfect 60 FPS with all my games on max settings. I just don't know how the editing will be affected since I don't do that work.
So with the reveal of the 1080, thinking of picking that up instead with a $200 more price tag on it...