Help building a hybrid high end system

[glopez]

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? Etc
Aside from gaming, I will be rendering high end graphics using engineering software and running complex mathematical and physics simulations as well and extensive programing using a variety of tools and compilers.

2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
My budget is not a problem; I have an ongoing engineering school budget, but I don’t know where to start to build a hybrid high end system gaming/workstation.

3) Which country do you live in? If the U.S, please tell us the state and city if possible.
I live in New York City.

4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. The word "Everything" is not a valid answer. Please list out all the parts you'll need.
See answer for question 2!

5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Please be especially specific about the power supply. List make and model.
No!

6) Will you be overclocking?
Not sure!

7) What is the max resolution of your monitor? What size is it?
I plan to use three 22” to 30” monitors.

8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
I will begin acquiring the parts once I get a detailed plan and outline of what I need and I have a building timeline of 3 – 6 months.

9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? USB 3.0? SATA 6Gb/s? eSATA? Onboard video (as a backup or main GPU)? UEFI? etc.
For high graphics I would prefer a 3-way SLI setup and support as well as the demanding processing power and required ram necessary.

10) Do you already have a legit and reusable/transferable OS key/license? If yes, what OS? Is it 32bit or 64bit?
No!

 

[Dangman]

3) Which country do you live in? If the U.S, please tell us the state and city if possible.
I live in New York City.

How far do you live from these Microcenter stores?:
http://www.microcenter.com/at_the_stores/westbury.html
http://www.microcenter.com/at_the_stores/yonkers.html

8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
I will begin acquiring the parts once I get a detailed plan and outline of what I need and I have a building timeline of 3 – 6 months.

Thats way too long of a build time: Our parts recommendations tends to change over time due to parts becoming out of date, out of stock, overpriced, or outperformed. So parts we recommend one month may not be the same parts we recommend in another month. So if you really want a detailed build plan that won't get outdated, please come back when you're 1-3 weeks away from buying the parts all in one go. At most, your build timeline should be a month.

Though for a general build list:
Intel 3930K CPU
Socket 2011 mobo with eight RAM slots
32GB of DDR3 RAM
128GB to 256GB SSD
1TB to 2TB Hard drive
$400 to $600 video card with at least 2GB of VRAM
Solid 650W to 750W PSU, Maybe 850W if going SLI/Crossfire