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Solved Ashinokami's PC build

Ashinokami

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** Pulled the trigger and bought i7-4790k, GTX 960, no more help needed :) **

Hello everyone,
I've read some very knowledgeable and insightful comments on TechnicJelle's PC thread, so would like to mine you guys for experience regarding my own build now.

I need a mid-end workstation PC for graphics work with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, and 3D modeling / rendering with 3DS Max+Vray.
Also for Unity and other realtime rendering solutions, but performance requirements for it and games are of low priority.
The PC should serve me 5 years, be flexible for upgrades, also I want to try Overclocking for first time, to cope with occasional intense rendering jobs. It might also be working 24/7 for those.
So my plan is: best CPU for ~350 €, 8GB RAM for start (16 GB in near future), DX12 GPU, Standard HDD. And for first time I'll be assembling it myself, hopefully in couple of weeks.

My budget is 1100 €. The tricky thing is with me living in Lithuania, so it's hard or expensive to ship from international or Western Europe-based dealers. Thus prices are from my local dealers.

Components I'm looking at now:

CPU:
Intel Core i7-4790K, 4,00 GHz (4,4 GHz TurboBoost), 88W, Skylake, LGA1150 - 344,89€
alternatively:​
Intel Core i7-6700K, 4,00 GHz (4,2 GHz TurboBoost), 95 W, Skylake, LGA1151 - 360,08€
Expectations: i7 and overclocking ability. Will do a lot if still frame renderings with Vray, Corona etc.​
Motherboard:
This is trickiest, and I need most guidance here, especially choosing chipset and board variations for that chipset. I was also recommended ASUS, and experience was also only good with both it's components and laptops.

Expectations: overclocking-friendly, I think Z170, Z97, Z87, X99. LGA1150/1151. General workhorse reliability and maybe features that help graphics work, NOT gaming. ATX size.

ASUS SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2 LGA1150 - 196,80 €
ASUS SABERTOOTH Z170 S LGA1151 - 198,54 €
RAM:
Expectations: DDR3, stick of 8GB preferably, to expand shortly to 16GB, and maybe to 32GB down the line. Overclockable. I also know little about timings, frequency compatibility with other components or OC, so need advice here.

CORSAIR Vengeance 1600Mhz 8 GB, 9-9-9-24 - 44,02 €
Kingston HyperX Fury White 8GB 1866MHz - 26,31 €
GPU:
Expectations: Nvidia, >2 GB Vram, DX12, <250 €. Would love Quadro for my work, but too expensive. Thus a mid-range gaming card that would run AC V/VI and Witcher 3 at medium settings would suffice. Haven't researched bus width yet, what does it help?

Gigabyte GTX960, 4 GB, 128 bit, GDDR5, 1152 MHz, 120W - 204,44€
Gigabyte GeForce GTX960 OC, 4 GB, 128 bit, GDDR5, 1190 MHz - 205,74€
ASUS TURBO-GTX960-OC-4GD , 4 GB, 128 bit, GDDR5, 1190 MHz - 213,16 €

Storage:
SDD looks like too big an investment for benefit, so small but reliable (250-500GB) HDD suffices:

WD Black 3.5'' 500GB SATA3 7200RPM 64MB - 69,64 €
Other:
Case - Deepcool TESSERACT BFW Mid tower - looks aesthetic and has many vents/fan attachment points, back fan included. 28,04 €
PSU - ~30-50 , wattage still unknown.
CPU Cooler - Arctic Freezer i11 - 23,49 €
Case fans - Arctic F12 PWM 120mm, 5,55 € - x1 for front intake, possibly more in the future.

So, thank you very much and hope you'll have time to look over this and advise, especially with motherboard/RAM/ VGA choices.
Cheers!

EDIT: preliminary base builds:
LGA1151 one strangely has very little choice of CPU coolers..

Intel Core i7-4790K 4,00 GHz - 344,89 €
ASUS SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2 - 196,80 €
Kingston HyperX Fury White 8GB 1866MHz DDR3- 26,31 €
Total: 568 €

Intel Core i7-6700K, 4,00 GHz - 360,08 €
ASUS SABERTOOTH Z170 S - 198,54 €
Corsair Vengeance LPX Black 8GB 2400MHz CL14 1.2V DDR4 - 35,11 €
Total: 593,73 €
 
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