I'm just curious if a single titan black last me 4 years at least with all game setting's maxed out at 1080p? I mostly play world of Warcraft and second life, but want room to add other games like diablo and star craft.  im putting it in a Silverstone cw03 premium htpc case.  I am going to use my 55" Sanyo as my display.  every little glitch will show up hence why I want max out all the settings.  I also plan to have a gaming capture card, pcie cable card and a raid car to do a raid 5 array on 6x 6TB WD Reds.
 
thanks in advance, Alice

so u recommend not doing the 4790k and wait for x99 and 5960x.  im wanting to play with anti assailing,ect.  plus I want torn all wow settings to their max n thought the titan black would do nicely with its 6gb.  im going with a workstation board so I can leave it on all the time because ill be running a raid5 array on six 6tb wd red drives.  the titan ide was because of the memorial build nature.  see my brother worked for NVidia as a beta tester and help make new drivers.  so I thought the best gpu would honor him.  I know the titan z is best but the case im getting recommends a rear exhausts fan.
 
thanks in advance, Alice

my isp is 50mb but I can upgrade it to 150mb if I want
 
so a 770 would be more then enough then huh.  that will take lik 65% cost off

this advice is helpful to me and I appreciate it.  its a mix of a htpc/gaming/pc/memorial pc.  I want to do this right.  the case i plan to use needs a reference rear exhaust gpu.  case only has two 80mm intakes and two 80mm exhaust fans.
 
from what im gathering a six 6tb wd red drives in a raid5, ssd, bd burner, 780ti, azermedia capture/broadcast card, centron cable card tuner, raid card, yeti pro mic, and logitec cam. im going to need a stout system.  Silverstone has come out with a 1500w psu that is only 150mm long.  it is the Silverstone ST1500-GS.  i used to use a ST1500 in my old p55 system and it got to much strain one day and burned up my hardware internal and external.
 
as for a system im getting 2 recommendations is to wait for x99 and a extreme edition processor & use a workstation z97 with a 4790k.
 
i want it to stay on 24/7 so the 6 tuner cable card can be like a massive dvr.  no dish or cable offers a 36TB storage box.
 
over kill maybe but i am handicap and dvr is how i spend 1/2 my time, the other 1/2 is gaming between pc, ps4, ps3, and ps2.
 
thanks in advance, alice

A Titan for the games you listed is massive overkill. I agree with the others that said you'd be better off with a 780 and a socket 2011 CPU/motherboard. None of those games you listed will ever take advantage of 6GB of vRAM. If you were playing games like Watch Dogs, Titanfall, Skyrim with a ton of high res texture packs, Battlefield 4, etc., then I'd say go for it. But for what you listed, stick to a 3GB 780. You'll see nearly the same performance for half the price.
 

I hadn't thought of doing a sli of 4gb 770's  ill have to pick my mobo carefully with a 8x raid card, 1x tv cable card, and 1x capture card.  will take every single pci slot for sure

It's been my experience that current generation graphics cards perform surprisingly rather poorly with "high end" (poorly optimized/coded) games. Guild Wars 2, Watch Dogs, and a few others come to mind. I tend to wonder if that isn't somewhat on purpose, perhaps to hype up a game and sell more copies of it without caring so much about its playability nor quality potential and on the other hand, selling hardware with more of a marketing innovation mindset than quality and performance. (The Titan Z comes to mind here.)
 
Excluding motion blur and some other similar type graphics effects which I don't much care for, I aim at gaming on max settings at a resolution of 1920×1080 and 60+ FPS. I didn't get my cards for just gaming though.
 
In some regard, a Titan Black or even 2 of them aren't really good enough as it is now, but we take what we can get.
 
For just gaming (unless you're using ultra-high resolutions and/or modding games) I would go with 2 of the higher end 780 Ti cards. For getting new cards, I personally wouldn't go with something as low as the 770s (since I already had 2 680 FTW+ cards which were upgraded to Titan Black Superclocked cards on my main computer), though I do very much appreciate that EVGA was able to replace my 680 FTW+ cards with 770 FTW cards when one of my 680s started acting up on me, causing driver crashes.
 
To answer your question though: No, probably not, but you could possibly get by well enough.

What you're talking about now is definitely going to end up being quite expensive, but if you're looking for the best, yeah, I don't think you're going to get any better than sli 780 TI/880 and an X99 setup.... possibly other than a multi CPU Xeon setup(with a price of $3k+ per CPU)...... the point is, if you want the best of the best of the best, you could literally end up in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, there comes a point when it just becomes pointless and you have to end up setting a limit on how much you're looking to spend.... this is why future proofing is a pretty bad idea in general, just go with what kicks a ton of ass now, and don't worry so much about what's coming down the pipe later unless you just really have to have the latest and greatest...... A good Z97 setup with a 4790K and a 780 TI or two would be an excellent rig, and since you were looking for a Titan, I think this setup would end up more around in the ballpark of what you were looking to spend.

If you're going for an HTPC I think Z97 would without a doubt be a better choice, if for no other reason cooling and power options, a 6 core I7 is going to generate more heat and require more power than a 4 core, that makes it a pretty poor choice for an HTPC, also, gaming simply isn't a CPU dependent activity, some games a bit more than others, but for the most part, you're going to get the same FPS with an I5 as you would with an I7 in almost every game if all other components are equal.... so going overkill with CPU in a gaming rig is usually pretty pointless...... even an AMD A10 will usually match an I7 in most games when paired with the same card.... even a 780, in which most people will say the A10 is a "bottleneck", in real world gaming scenarios it just proves totally untrue...... Also, one other point, if we're always waiting on the latest and greatest, we might as well go ahead and wait forever.... why wait on X99 or GTX 880, when there are already great options available right now?

in memorial builds theey don't have to be practical I think.  see my brother did beta testing and driver development out his bedroom for NVidia.  a single powerful gpu creates les heat then dual cheaper ones.  well depends on the card usally but u get what I mean.  I am thinking the asus z97 ws work station bord would be good for stability

 
What's your budget for this build?

Hello! I build, install, and setup both gaming and professional workstations for a living. It is not a good idea to mix gaming cards such as the 780ti and a workstation card such as the Quadro K5000, because you will have endless driver issues.

It sounds like the computer you are building will be primarily for gaming, and occasionally for video editing and rendering. The GTX 780ti would be perfect for this role. The Titan cards are hybrid workstation/gaming cards that will also do very nicely, but would be kind of overkill if you weren't rendering HD video on a daily basis.

You mentioned that this was a memorial build, so if you decide to go with a 780ti, EVGA has a special edition KINGPIN version that has a lot of extra craftsmanship put into it. You should also consider going with a full water cooling loop, in which case the 780ti Dual Classified Hydro Copper would be a great solution. The advantage of going water-cooled is that your system will be much quieter at near-max loads when playing the latest games on ultra-max settings.

As far as waiting for X99 & GTX 880, well, I would wait until mid-2015 when those platforms mature. Whenever a new technology is released, it will have bugs and issues with the first generation. When you need to build a computer that lasts, go with a mature technology. Z97 and GTX 780ti are a great solution for today. Don't forget you can always add a second card in SLI in a few years to keep the system up to date.

XrayManWhat's your budget for this build?

GamerGirlAlicenever chose one.

I think you should nail this down first. Right now, you're looking at about $5,000 USD, and 36% of your budget is hard disks (6 GB Reds are $300 each on newegg).
 

GamerGirlAlicemy isp is 50mb but I can upgrade it to 150mb if I want

Not necessary - 50 megabits/second is more than enough. Your ping distance to the game servers is more important.

GamerGirlAliceim not wanting a huge oc which is why im thinking x99 and extreme cpu might be over kill but what is being recommended by most.

Not recommended by me. Don't buy any Intel extreme CPUs, and don't wait for X99. Get an i7 4790K and a Z97 motherboard.
 
For gaming, the difference between a $5,000 system and a $2,000 system is pretty minimal.
 
Regarding media storage, I have a CETON infiniTV4 PCI-express card in my AMD A-3850 APU system (circa 2012) in a Silverstone ML03B case, and I can record 4 simultaneous HD streams from Comcast to a Western Digital Green 5400 RPM 2 TB drive. I set up Windows Media Center to delete the recordings automatically which I don't care about, and I move the ones I want to keep to a secondary hard disk.
 
What I am saying is, you don't need a massive 32 TB RAID 5 array for simple video capturing. With all hard disks, there is a sweet spot for price / GiB. 6 GB appears to be on the bleeding edge, so it is more expensive per GiB. You are proposing to spend $1,800.00 on 32 TB of hard disk space, which you will marvel at for a few minutes and then forget about it until one of your hard disks fails, and then while you're waiting for a replacement and rebuild it, a second disk fails due to the stress of the rebuild, and you lose all 32 TB of data permanently. I personally recommend against any sort of RAID array - for most people it just really doesn't make sense, unless it's simple RAID 0 for a scratch disk (i.e. super large file size video editing), but even then, only if you do video editing for 8 hours a day as your job. RAID is not a backup solution - you still have to back up your data.
 
Personal recommendation:
$339 i7 4790k
$180 ASUS z97 PRO motherboard (or wifi model + $25) http://www.newegg.com/Pro...x?Item=N82E16813132116
$200-500 240-500 GB SSD (Samsung, Intel, Mushkin, whatever)
$235 1 x 4 TB WD Black for games storage / fast access http://www.newegg.com/Pro...x?Item=N82E16822236622
$308 2 x 4 TB WD Green for media recording and file backup - http://www.newegg.com/Pro...x?Item=N82E16822236604
$670 EVGA 03G-P4-2883-KR GeForce GTX 780 Ti Superclocked (external exhaust) - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487001
 
Get at most 16 GB of RAM (2 x 8), a good PSU (no more than 1000 W is my guess), and you're looking at a grand total of a little over $2,000.
 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't EVGA releasing 780ti variants with 6GB VRAM in the next few months? A little bird told me a 780ti 6GB Kingpin will be released in time for the holidays.