Looking to build a gaming tower for light gaming and mad storage space.

I'm currently working for an internet company in rural canada, and one of the storage buildings got flooded.
Long story short is their scrapping a bunch of equipment because it takes too long to sort through it all and find out what works and what doesnt.
This means I can get my hands on some Freebie server hardware to build a computer with! yay.

I have my hands on 2x 3 TB (barracuda 7200rpm) hard drives, and i believe... 3 8gb Ram sticks ( gotta test these first to see if they're still usable.)

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/Seagate-Barracuda-3-TB-Hard-Drive-Review/1477


Games i mainly play, RPGs and League of legends. Nothing crazy intense.
But with these huge hard drives i want to beable to make the most of my 100/100 Fiber connection at home
and download tons of music and movies.

Lets put a budget cap of 2000$, and i wanna see what you guys can come up with
I've been doing hypothetical builds myself, just to keep the dream going.

This post was edited by acdc5 on Oct 28 2014 10:44am

I'm honestly confused about where to begin. Only light gaming, so do you want it more focused on an enterprise build with 1 or 2 Xeon processors or do you want to stick to enthusiast and go for Core i#? With a budget of $2000, you can do pretty much anything.

Also, what postal code?

HAHA welcome to exactly where i'm at..
I basically know i got some fantastic hard drives and some ram sticks,.. it got me thinking to do a build.

Postal Code- r0m 2c0

i was looking at the Intel Core i7-4960X Extreme Edition 3.6GHz 6-Core Processor, for cpu if that helps u out.. puts a big hit on the budget though
Dont worry bout monitors/keyboard/mouse, think tower and internals only.

This post was edited by acdc5 on Oct 28 2014 11:37am

Get an unlocked i7 with a nice mobo, GTX 970 (low power and will be able to handle light gaming at 4k res when you convert to it), small SSD for boot up, and a RAID controller for RAID0 on your HDDs.




I wouldn't bother with that stuff yet... it's a beast but it's price:performance ratio is garbage.

This post was edited by SanityWasHacked on Oct 28 2014 12:30pm

If you want it just for the sake of lolbenchmarks, the 5960X is the newer generation Intel Xtreme processor, but I personally can't think of a situation where it would be necessary except for benchmarking. Although, it is an LGA 2011-3 cpu, so its DDR4 memory. Just the CPU, MoBo, and RAM is nearly $1900 (US), it would probably be closer to $2100 CAD.

Even with the 4960X, its extremely (pardon the pun) difficult to stay within a $2000 budget.
http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/pVkVLk
No Optical Drive
No OS (Not necessarily con if you don't need one)
No SSD
Only a GTX 970
Not the best case (although, not bad)
$2138+Tax


http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/CNdKNG
Dual GTX 970's
Includes SSD, Optical, and OS
Supports RAID 0,1,5,10 on-board
Could probably reach a stable 4.7 or 4.8 Overclock
If you don't need the OS or Optical Drive, you can save $110.

/e
Hell, with the second build you can drop both graphics cards and get one 980 for about $100 less, or you can just drop one 970 and stick with one since you're only doing "light" gaming.

This post was edited by DeXaFiLaH on Oct 28 2014 12:53pm