New build 5k budget

bloodhunter

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Wanting to build a new PC for flight simulation.
Spec wise I'm thinking of an eight core speed binned CPU, Say 32-64gb of RAM and two Top end 980ti in sli and a couple of 1tb SSD,s.

What would you get if you were going to build a flight sim PCs with that budget?
 
I'm not going to spec you because there are people on here far more qualified than me, but I think you're going over the top quite badly. Flight sims are very reliant on the CPU. Sli 980Ti's is overkill imo. One is plenty. 16GB of RAM is plenty as well. Also, a 6 core like the i7-5930 is ample. Stay away from Xeon's. They actually perform far less efficiently in flight sims than i7's do for X times the price.

How many monitors do you want to use? Does your budget include those?
 
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What do you need, tower, monitors, keyboard, OS?

Any particular colour scheme for the tower if it has a window and glowy bits?
 
I'm just thinking of the tower and what goes inside for now. As I said its for a flight sim, X-plane 10 to be precise and another one. X-plane users say that 32gb ram is the norm these days and the sim will easily use all my current 4gb of vram if I try and max out the settings so the 980ti will help here. I know this sim does not yet support sli but the other Prepaed 3D v3 does.
As for monitor yes I would be getting a capable 4K, something like a 34inch ultra wide curved.
 
My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £2,023.04
(includes shipping: £13.20)
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Then add GFX cards (yes two), but notice how all the 980tis are like mostly out of stock, that says something about how close Pascal is.

Then add a huge Gsync screen.

So assume roughly £500 per card and say upto £1K for a badass monitor, thats £4K for it all.
 
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