Budget:
Maximum you will spend? - 1500 hopefully more near 1k
Will you complete mail in rebates? - yes
If so, may we go over-budget if rebates bring you within budget? - yes
Do you need Windows Operation System within budget? - yes
Need a Monitor? / Mouse? / Keyboard within budget? - no/no/no

Basic Info:
Specific Uses (Programs, game titles etc.) - Quad box D3 on lowest settings
Country? - us
Will you travel to NCIX (canada) or Microcenter (USA) for parts? (Null if unsure) - no

How much hard drive space do you want or need? - 1 tb
Will you use wireless or wired internet? - both / primarily wired
Will you overclock CPU and/or GPU? - don't even know what that is
Any special requests or useful things to tell us? (Specific case, need lots of storage, audio etc.) - Interested in a solid state drive. Don't know much about them.

Style (optional)
Do you prefer any specific colors for the build/computer case? - no
Do you prefer a window on your case? - no
*(Please note how picky you will be with colors. Sometimes it's just not feasible to get some colors on certain parts)* 0/10

Planned time until purchase: asap
Do you have any specific preferred components?: no
Zip code/location? (Shipping costs): 48089
Are you planning to use multiple monitors? yes
Are you looking for upgrade-ability? yes
Do you have any preferred brands? no
Can you reuse any components from an older build? yes but i'd prefer not to.
Is there anything else you think we should know? The main idea here is to be able to quad box d3 with decent a tolerable fps. Idk if an ssd helps that but someone suggested it to me so idk about that part, advice is needed. But I don't want to go overboard and if it costs less than my budget id like to spend less.
Do you need an Operating System?: yes
Do you need a sound or wireless card?: yes/yes
Do you want stock cooling or do you plan on overclocking?: Idk if stock cooling is going to be enough here? advice needed.

An ssd will help with d3 ( loading between zone changes mostly)
I'll come up with something shortly

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/crnkFT - no o/c
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2PGvTW - o/c

overclocking is easy and there are many guides on it, if that's something you may be interested in.
overclocking allows your processor the ability to "remain competitive" when newer processors come out.

for example
i have a 3570k processor that came out in 2012 - stock: 3.4 ghz, o/c 4.2 ghz
i don't have to upgrade to a skylake CPU as my processor is just about on par with a locked skylake processor (like the CPU listed in the no o/c build linked above)

if i went with a 3570 (no o/c processor) i wouldn't have been able to get 4.2 ghz out of it, just the 3.4 and I would have upgraded to skylake FOR SURE because my computer would struggle with something (take star citizen alpha for instance )

This post was edited by Penguins0690 on Feb 8 2016 09:37pm

My suggestion: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/wNNkFT

I have never tryed to run 4 instances of D3, but i think in that situation the 8 threads of the i7 might be beneficial. But not that sure on that. You might need to do some research there.
For the OS you can buy a cheap win 7 key online and aktivate windows 10 with it. no need to spend enother 100$ on it.
Wireless cards are mostly build into mini-itx main boards, but you cant really upgrade these a lot. For ATX main boards build in wireless adapters start at about 300$
So you can either buy a wireless network card that goes into one of your expansion slots (mostly PCI x1) or get one of these wireless usb sticks.

And if you want to reuse old parts, then you have to list us exactly which parts your currently using.

Base Total: $1578.35
Promo Discounts: -$4.00
Mail-in Rebates: -$90.00
Shipping: $3.99
Total: $1488.34

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/wQymYJ

Thank you all for posting. I've noticed a trend here with with quad core processors and the 8 gig video cards. What is with that? I'm assuming none of you multibox but on the isboxer website they recommend 2 cores per instance for d3. Right now I'm triple boxing with a quad core, 8gig ram, 2gb video card and my fps is 10 in each window. According to open hardware monitor all 4 of my cores running at 100% along with my video card. I'm assuming just upgrading my video card isn't going to change my cores running at 100%. I think I did state I know nothing and am assuming everything lol, please let me know your thoughts guys. Thank you again.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/DR8RQ7

Should do everything fine.

Rule of thumb is 1 GB of memory and then 1 GB per instance of D3 you are running. 8 GB cuts it a little too close so going with 16GB is more feasible. Also, you could switch to a larger SSD if you wanted for around $70 more depending on the brand. Went with a full tower for more airflow as you'll be taxing the system and GPU so lots of air is needed.

First of all 8gb ram is not enough to run 4 copies of diablo 3. You should really go with 16gb to give each instance 4gb as it is recommended.
Also the i5 will only have 1 thread for each application. So you will actually benefit a lot from the i7 hyperthreading.
As grafics card the 390 should be fine. If it runs at about 90% usage you can just lower the resolution to reduce the stress on the grafics card.

But usually a i5 6600 should be able to get you at least 20-25fps.

Also quad core does not equal quad core. A AMD quad core gets easly beaten by an intel dual core.

This post was edited by maulepan on Feb 9 2016 09:16am

I'm assuming the gigs you are referring to are ram. Is there a benefit to a larger ssd? Thank you for the info.



idk what threads are but I'll take your word for it. everyone seems to suggest 16gb of ddr4.
id like to aim for 30 fps if possible with my budget. btw in my current setup im running 3 not 4 so my 8 gigs should work by your logic....with the exception of my processor of course and video card.
thank you all again for posting you guys are so helpful.

oh hi you

Stop misinforming people. 4 cores is enough to run each instance. 1 core per instance. Threads will not run the game correctly, so Hyperthreading does not even come into play. Hyperthreading uses residual cycles of a core to free up useful cycles. Why would you even begin to say such a thing? Also 8 Gb would be plenty still as it requires only 1 GB to run each instance and 1 GB for the OS. Unless he's doing a lot of background applications then he shouldn't see anything higher than 5 - 6 Gb used. So, theoretically, 8 GB should work. However, I recommended 16 because of performance loss when using over 50% of RAM.

@ OP there's more than enough performance in an I5 to run 4 instances without any issues.