@honemi
omg to much to point out.
often times larger ram would be practical in some sense, from one point of view a larger ram could cache far more things and fetch less from SSD/HDD.
this might also be one of the cause of some stutters in some games.
as i've said 32GB is a good measure, and 16GB is pretty much enough too.
ram latency does make some difference on some occasion, imho your ram is being accessed for multiple purposes ranging from VRAM fetch to file caching, having a fast ram would minimize queue overflow.
thats the point of making the core system the priority, they get obsolete fast, if you went with a slower system you'd have less years before you start swapping things.
unlike those parts that'd last years like the speakers, you could put those off for years and the ones you had been eyeing for so long would still be relevant, hopefully cheaper by then.
i had it in my head that you'd need something beefy to push 120FPS on a 120Hz screen but that was just an example.
RAID5's relevancy is preventing single-drive failure, since 6TB drives haven't been out for long it's reliability isn't established yet.
hell a single 6TB drive would make do and isn't really what you'd call small.
the build was purposefully exaggerated to match what you'd exaggerate on a $1000 bookshelf speakers(note no amps, no cables, no nothing), though its highly unbalanced.
*there are $150 speakers from klipsch or polks then add in a $50 good amp, even some of swan's great speakers could be had for $200 as a complete package.
on a note to that i'd prioritize headphones over speakers since i'm on an apartment.
@xShadow
well as you've noted, i only got like 10% of your budget
and thats exactly why i went with an i3-2100 back then, it was plenty for games from... how many years had it been? 3?
and then i went with other priorities, since i had a lower budget point, things like SSDs and a good PSU would eat up most of my budget.
imho though even if i had like $4000 i sure have a lot more other stuffs that i could get up to stuff before i'd start going with expensive speakers/mice/keyboard/etc.
i mean i could always put those off for a few more months, though it had been years since i last upgraded, now i got a windows tablet as a priority due to work...
and yes i've experienced some parts of it before i went with it, weighting the budget before hand.
i've gone to some audio shops for example and they had sample speakers, headphones and what not, its where i got my superlux HD668B.
i mean, i've weighted an HD668B against a Shure SRH840 and deemed the $100 difference not worth it, well at that time that is, i would've gotten the shure otherwise.
the same goes with speakers, they had a few sony, klipsch and polk bookshelfs and some others, sadly i prioritized headphones first.
anyway i already got a swan M10. wait, before you say its a stupid choice... well yeah i find it horrendous too, but i got it for $20!
then theres that issue with noise, i've always been sensitive to sound, so from the begging i'd been through fans and such that were quiet.
even as far as removing the fans due to annoyance but that was stupid of me, i went with cougar fans due to their pricing and they were pretty quiet.
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/ddr4-memory-starts-selling-indicative-of-haswell-e-launch.htmlhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007611%20600521523&IsNodeId=1&name=288-Pin%20DDR4%20SDRAMlol that price, seems like DDR4 will start at double the price of DDR3, ohh but they're ECC & registered ram.
