My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £5,763.89
(includes shipping: £0.00)
If you dump the HTC Vive you can push the system so much further. Obviously, you'd need to substitute the Titan X for a Titan XP.
Oh and if you can stretch another £300 past your budget then you can replace this 8 core CPU and get the 10 core 6950X
Thanks for the config. It is appreciated.
I see you exchanged the Dominator for lower spec Vengeance and Asus PG348Q for lower QC same panel Acer x34. Is it worth for £~150?
I really can't drop the Vive because it is one of the reasons I wanted to build this rig.
Again, it will be an entertainment center and that's why the Vive and the expensive Asus monitor are included in price but many people here do not notice the PC itself is £4.1K.
I will do 4K editing as I want to get into aerial filming but only as a hobby so it will probably not be so very often. That's why I don't want to go big on the CPU. I think 6 cores strikes the right balance between gaming, VR and 4K editing and also making the whole rig a bit more future proof.
I don't know about Haswell-E. I know they have been and still are great CPUs but the fact that they are 2 years old technology puts me off a bit when I'm trying to build something that looks towards the future.
Pics or it didn't happen btw once you get it.
There will be pics, no worries.
It probably isnt happening.
It will.
The project has been approved here with your help. It will be modified here and there but stands as a whole.
The budget has been approved by my missus.
Now it is just a matter of spare time to build it. Next 6 weeks I am busy with work so it's probably happening at the beginning of October.
Just as good as I hear Zen will be launching about that time so maybe good ol' Intel will drop its prices. One can only hope.
But anyway, why would you ever be buying a Titan X (not Pascal) in a £6,000 build? Basically you pick everything expensive then add an out of date and over priced GPU - get 2 x 1080s for the money and watch them stomp all over the Titan, or buy the new Titan (not sold on anywhere but Nvidia direct). A single 1080 is also better and a lower cost.
Again it's not £6K and again it will be the new Titan.
Also a massive SSD is a monumental waste of money, you yourself listed clearly what you want to use it for: M.2 = OS, SSD = program drive... Presume you do not in fact have 2TB of applications installed on your PC. A decent 512GB drive or two of them is a better option. I would guess you would actually end up with M.2 = OS and applications, SSD = games. No need for 2TB really...
Some people advised here to drop one SSD and others to put some more. I am getting mixed reactions.
My thinking was for the EVO to be like a buffer between the M.2 and the HDD, where M.2 will be used to do my video editing, transfer to EVO, keep it there while I'm still messing with it and then off to HDD when I'm tired of it, for safe keeping.
Same I can do when I reinstall Windows on M.2, quick transfer what I still need on EVO and then format c:\
Motherboard: Plenty that look as good for £200 given you have no desire to overclock its another example of money wasted really.
I did say I will overclock. I will not aim for crazy overclocking though, just something decent.
I opted for Rampage because I like Asus' BIOS, because it is the only ROG x99 Mobo and it will go well with the monitor, because the nearest contender would've been Asus Deluxe II x99 which is not far behind in pricing and Rampage has all its features plus a great semi-onboard sound with DAC 5.25” bay which I need.
The op is planning on buying the Pascal version of the Titan X. It has been mentioned many times in the thread.
He is also doing 4K Video Editing.
As for the money aspect, I am sure the op is aware of that. At the end of the day it is His money to spend, and I am sure He is capable of deciding how to spend it.
This.
Thanks for paying attention.