Can anyone spec a PC?

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OK, so, as you guessed by the title, I need a PC specced. Not for me, but for a friend, he said he wants to get into streaming/gaming. He said he wants to be able to play games on 3 monitors, or stream, but not at the same time. He wants 3 24-27" 1920x1080/1920x1200 all the same monitor, thin bezel, and he wants AMD GPU. He knows nothing else about computers and asked me to help him, but as I don't know that much, I couldn't help him. I told him there is no point to get one for streaming, because he won't stick at it, he thinks he will start streaming and become famous, and get thousands of pounds in donations. And I don't even know where he is getting the money from, but I did say I would post it on a forum, so here is the post.

Budget for PC alone, case GPU, CPU, PSU, MOBO, RAM, SSD, HDD or whatever you choose to go in it, needs to be a full desktop PC: £1500-£2000

Budget for monitors, mouse and keyboard, mouse mat: Cheapest possible, but don't cut corners, decent monitors, but no more than £250 each max, keyboard and mouse and mouse mat don't matter about budget too much, mechanical keyboard, backlit, macro buttons, and atleast 2 side buttons on the mouse, the more the better.

I told him he probably won't get a good streaming PC for £2000 where he can stream at 60 fps etc, or a good 3 monitor display PC for £2000, but he is stubborn, and the least I can do to help him is to post it on here.

Thanks,
~Leighton & his friend Mat

EDIT: Now he has said he wants to do video making/rendering etc, I said to go with Nvidia, he said he wants AMD, but I will leave it up to you.
 
I showed him, and he has no clue between the two, so I think it will be better to go for a 2011 build that includes everything for £2750, he said that will be his set budget for everything, sometimes I wonder where he gets all his money from lol. He said he knows what Crossfire is and if possible make it possible for him to upgrade to Crossfire in the future. He said he doesn't mind if it is Nvidia, but can you still have it possible to add another GPU for the future even if it's Nvidia, but I think he prefers AMD. In my opinion, the 2 builds are ace, but he wants to see if it will be a massive performance increase if he spends £2750 on the whole build. He wants plenty storage (4TBish) and at least 1 SSD for the boot drive and a couple of games but has no idea on anything else, so I want to see what he can get 2011 socket wise. Thanks again.

EDIT: He also want's a big, lit up, flashy case.
 
I showed him, and he has no clue between the two, so I think it will be better to go for a 2011 build that includes everything for £2750, he said that will be his set budget for everything, sometimes I wonder where he gets all his money from lol. He said he knows what Crossfire is and if possible make it possible for him to upgrade to Crossfire in the future. He said he doesn't mind if it is Nvidia, but can you still have it possible to add another GPU for the future even if it's Nvidia, but I think he prefers AMD. In my opinion, the 2 builds are ace, but he wants to see if it will be a massive performance increase if he spends £2750 on the whole build. He wants plenty storage (4TBish) and at least 1 SSD for the boot drive and a couple of games but has no idea on anything else, so I want to see what he can get 2011 socket wise. Thanks again.

EDIT: He also want's a big, lit up, flashy case.

Ok, changed it a bit and added a nice blue theme:

YOUR BASKET
2 x Sapphire HD 7970 OC BOOST 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £323.99 (£647.98)
1 x Intel Core i7-3820 3.60GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail £249.95
1 x Gigabyte X79-UP4 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £209.99
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 256GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-256M5P) £185.99
3 x Asus VN247H 24"Widescreen Super Narrow Bezel LED Monitor - Black £179.99 (£539.97)
1 x Corsair Obsidian 650D Gaming Midi Tower - Black £149.99
1 x XFX Pro Series 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £94.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £79.99
2 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £71.99 (£143.98)
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis 8GB (4x2GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit £69.95
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £59.99
1 x Microsoft SideWinder X4 Gaming Keyboard - Retail (JQD-00006) £32.99
1 x BitFenix Recon Internet-Connected Fan Controller (Black) £29.99
1 x Logitech G400 3600DPI Gaming Mouse (910-002279) £27.98
1 x BitFenix Alchemy Premium Modding LED Strip - Connect Blue 60cm £25.99
1 x OcUK Mega Mat XXL Elite Tactical Gaming Surface £17.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
2 x BitFenix Spectre PRO 200mm Blue LED - Black £14.99 (£29.98)
1 x BitFenix Spectre PRO 120mm Fan Blue LED - Black £11.99
Total : £2,627.64 (includes shipping : FREE).



Any better?
 
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He likes the 2 2011 builds, and sadly honosuseri, he would prefer to have 3 screens for when he is going to stream. I showed him the 2011 CPUs on overclockers, and he said would it be any benefit to go to the next step up? I, myself don't know, is there if he is going to be video rendering, gaming, or streaming? And he doesn't like the mouse, keyboard, or mouse mat, he says he will spend more money for better a mouse, mouse mat, and keyboard. He also likes Razer, I showed him my razer blackwidow ultimate, and razer naga epic. He like them because of the glow on them. So at the minute, he is liking this:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-3930K 3.20GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail £469.99
2 x Sapphire HD 7970 OC BOOST 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £323.99 (£647.98)
1 x Gigabyte X79-UP4 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £209.99
3 x Iiyama Prolite B2481HS-B1 24" Widescreen LED Super Slim Bezel Monitor - Black £191.99 (£575.97)
1 x Samsung 256GB SSD 840 PRO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7PD256BW) £189.95
1 x Corsair Obsidian 650D Gaming Midi Tower - Black £149.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit £109.99
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £99.98
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £79.99
2 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £71.99 (£143.98)
1 x Razer DeathStalker Expert Keyboard £69.98
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £59.99
1 x Razer DeathAdder 2013 6400 DPI Essential Ergonomic Gaming Mouse £53.99
1 x Razer Goliathus Extended Mouse Mat - Control £34.99
1 x BitFenix Recon Internet-Connected Fan Controller (Black) £29.99
1 x BitFenix Alchemy Premium Modding LED Strip - Connect Blue 60cm £25.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
2 x BitFenix Spectre PRO 200mm Blue LED - Black £14.99 (£29.98)
1 x BitFenix Spectre PRO 120mm Fan Blue LED - Black £11.99
Total : £3,012.68 (includes shipping : FREE).




Is it worth it? He would be willing to pay for the better CPU if it was worth it.
 
everything in stock when spec been done, unlike a few above :)

gone for a i7 on a 2011 socket and a good liquid cooler to keep a good overclock cool, can link to guides for chip and m/b, with a dual crossfire setup on a M/B that supports 16x16

16gb of ram, a 256gb sdd and a 3tb hdd

2 amd 9750, not 70 as these overclock very well.

3 x 24" slims bezel's monitors

not spec'ed k/b or mouse as these are personnel choices tbh

2 x Sapphire HD 7950 Boost 3072MB PCI-Express Graphics Card (11196-19-20G) with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £239.99 (£479.98)
1 x Intel Core i7-3820 3.60GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - OEM £235.99
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 256GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-256M5P) £185.99
1 x Gigabyte X79-UD3 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £169.99
3 x Iiyama Prolite E2481HS-B1 24" Widescreen LED Super Slim Bezel Monitor - Black £169.99 (£509.97)
1 x Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST3000DM001) HDD £113.99
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £99.98
1 x GeIL Black Dragon 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD316GB1600C11DC) **OcUK Exclusive** £89.99
1 x Antec Kúhler H2O 920 Series 4 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (LGA1155 / LGA1156 / LGA1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM2+ / AM3+) £77.88
1 x BitFenix Raider Tower Case - Black £62.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.98
Total : £2,045.74 (includes shipping : FREE).

 
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YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-3930K 3.20GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail £469.99
2 x Sapphire HD 7970 OC BOOST 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £323.99 (£647.98)
1 x Gigabyte X79-UP4 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £209.99
3 x Iiyama Prolite B2481HS-B1 24" Widescreen LED Super Slim Bezel Monitor - Black £191.99 (£575.97)
1 x Samsung 256GB SSD 840 PRO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7PD256BW) £189.95
1 x NZXT Phantom Enthusiast USB3.0 Full Tower Case - White £109.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit £109.99
1 x XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £99.98
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £79.99
1 x Antec Kúhler H2O 920 Series 4 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (LGA1155 / LGA1156 / LGA1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM2+ / AM3+) £77.88
2 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £71.99 (£143.98)
1 x Razer DeathStalker Expert Keyboard £69.98
1 x Razer DeathAdder 2013 6400 DPI Essential Ergonomic Gaming Mouse £53.99
1 x Razer Goliathus Extended Mouse Mat - Control £34.99
1 x BitFenix Recon Internet-Connected Fan Controller (Black) £29.99
1 x BitFenix Alchemy Premium Modding LED Strip - Connect Blue 60cm £25.99
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
2 x BitFenix Spectre PRO 200mm Blue LED - Black £14.99 (£29.98)
1 x BitFenix Spectre PRO 120mm Fan Blue LED - Black £11.99
Total : £2,990.58 (includes shipping : FREE).




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