Review build

I watched a video just last night where Jayz Two Cents shows us how well a single GTX 1080 can do on 4k, while playing Doom with literally everything maxed out. He was averaging between the mid 60's to the mid 70's. Which is absolutely great for 4k. So two 1080's will rock the hell out of that.

The 5960x has actually been proven that it is a beast at video editing, encoding, transcoding, etc.. It's a breeze.

I really like that 950 Pro 512 m.2 SSD. You have more than enough PCI lanes to enjoy it. So be ready for 3Gbps of read and write.

My only thing I would do... and this is for me, I don't know your personal needs, but I probably wouldn't put that 120GB SSD as my third storage, as I would want some type of mass storage, like a nice 4-6TB Western Digital Black. Of course, you might keep all of your work on a NAS or remote storage location that has plenty of storage that mass storage isn't an issue at all for you. Or perhaps you plan on sharing space on that 2TB SSD with games and media.

Out side of that, it's a very beast system that will do everything you want. Might want to get in touch with DS once it's put together to measure the Db output to figure out if it's too loud for what you want and if it is, they have a great Noise Reduction option. It'll quiet the system down with noise dampening stuff, while still optimizing the air flow.

But yea, it's a very solid build that is more than capable for what you need to do, with ease. Just that one hard drive thing. But that's not even an issue, just an opinion

Originally posted by db188 Originally posted by Meller I watched a video just last night where Jayz Two Cents shows us how well a single GTX 1080 can do on 4k, while playing Doom with literally everything maxed out. He was averaging between the mid 60's to the mid 70's. Which is absolutely great for 4k. So two 1080's will rock the hell out of that. i finally got around to watching that vid Meller.  one thing to note that is with the EVGA SC ACX3.0 1080GTX, which is factory overclocked.  according to this vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZrGImpdxy0 it looks like the reference 1080 only does 47(min) and 54(max) FPS with Doom maxed at 4K.  since there's nothing custom (other than the cooler) i suppose with proper cooling any reference card can increase clock speeds to match or surpass that EVGA card.  they test a lot of games in that vid so might be worth watching the whole thing.  they also show 1440p results.   that 1080 is no doubt a beast.  it beats out even 980ti SLI in quite a few games.  how inexcusable is that some modern games can't even do SLI right?

Planning a new rig in the next 6-9 months and was leaning towards sli this time, but I do hear a lot about sli issues in games. Makes me think a high end single card is less hassle and less expensive. Just upgrade every 2-3 years.