About time I get a new rig!

Geoff

Geoff

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So I may POSSIBLY be buying a new rig to replace my ancient one in my sig. I haven't been keeping up to date on what's best out there, mainly when it comes to SSD's and video cards. What do you think?

Let me know if you think anything is really overkill, or if I should get a different component. Ideally this will last me a while :)


Intel Core i7-3930K Sandy Bridge-E 3.2GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 2011 130W Six-Core Desktop Processor

ASUS Sabertooth X79 LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900)

EVGA 02G-P4-2680-KR GeForce GTX 680 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

2x (RAID 0) Corsair Force Series GS CSSD-F240GBGS-BK 2.5" 240GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 ST3000DM001 3TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

OCZ ZX Series 1000W Fully-Modular 80PLUS Gold High Performance Power Supply

COOLER MASTER HAF X Blue Edition RC-942-KKN3 Black Steel / Plastic ATX Full Tower Computer Case

LITE-ON H/H Internal BD Writer with Nero Essential SATA

ASUS DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS Black SATA 24X DVD Burner - Bulk - OEM

ASUS PB Series PB278Q 27" 5ms (GTG) WQHD HDMI Widescreen LED Monitor
 
Are you being serious right now? That's one hella expensive rig! I'd rather spend that money on a 5D Mk III! :eek: Unless you plan on selling all your camera stuff to help pay for this :cool:
 
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voyagerfan99 said:
Are you being serious right now? That's one hella expensive rig! I'd rather spend that money on a 5D Mk III! :eek: Unless you plan on selling all your camera stuff to help pay for this :cool:
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I'd get this AND the 5DM3 (check your tweets BTW) :)

I'd probably keep my current gaming rig as a secondary computer, and I'd sell my 7D and current lenses to help pay for the 5D.
 
Wow that is one hell of a rig there Geoff, however I think you are possibly spending money unnecessarily.

If you really want an i7, I'd steer clear of the 39xx chips and Socket 2011 unless you really require that power. An i7 3770K would be great for you I reckon, paired with a good Z77 board. Looks like you like the Sabertooth boards from ASUS, there is a Sabertooth Z77 which would work really nice with a 3770K for you. I know you obviously edit photos and stuff too, but a 3770K and a Z77 board will set you up good.

32GB RAM is just pretty insane, I'd go for 16GB at max really, unless you have some sort of need for 32GB? If this is for editing photos and gaming, then yeah 16GB is about the most you'll need I think.

Great choice of GPU, 680s are awesome cards.

There is very little point to striping (ie, RAID-0'ing) two SSDs. One SSD is fast enough and you lose TRIM support when you start using RAID with SSDs. I'd get one Crucial M4 256GB or one SanDisk Extreme 240GB or one Samsung 840 256GB or one of the Vertex 4 drives or the Kingston drives. You may even have enough have a 512GB drive which would be awesome.

So SSD wise, any of the drives I mentioned are good. I tend to stay away from Corsair, I know they used to have a lot of firmware and stability issues, probably fixed now, but... the other drives are great.

Hard drive looks good to me!

PSU is overkill for a single 680, a 750W would do you good. If you want modular, the Corsair AX 750 is probably a good choice. If you want to maybe SLI two 680s, then the 1000W will still be overkill I think.

Personally I don't think much of the case, I'd get an NZXT Phantom instead, but that's just my choice. Cases are personal preferences.

Blu-Ray and DVD drive look fine to me, as does the monitor.

One other thing you may want to consider is perhaps aftermarket cooling. 3770Ks overclock fairly nicely, a liquid cooler such as a Corsair H60 or an H80 should be fine for overclocking the 3770K with.

I hope this helps! :)
 
That helps a lot! I'll change the cart around a bit and see what I can come up with.

The only reason I went with 32GB was because the motherboard is a quad channel board, so I wanted to take advantage of it by getting 4 memory modules, but if I get 4x 4GB then it's not as future proof.

I may decide to reuse some of the parts I already have now, so I could reuse my case, power supply, sound card, and a couple other components.
 
Aren't you running in an Antec 900 though? That's a really outdated case and not that great anymore. Get a nice Lian-Li case!
 
WRXGuy1 said:
That helps a lot! I'll change the cart around a bit and see what I can come up with.

The only reason I went with 32GB was because the motherboard is a quad channel board, so I wanted to take advantage of it by getting 4 memory modules, but if I get 4x 4GB then it's not as future proof.

I may decide to reuse some of the parts I already have now, so I could reuse my case, power supply, sound card, and a couple other components.
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If you go 2x8GB now, you can upgrade to 32GB later if you like. I'm sure you already know this, but make sure you get 1600MHz RAM too. Don't bother buying any faster, you gain very little performance and you can overclock it yourself.

I think the 3770K build will be great for you. :)
 
It would be good to house it all in a new case, because then you can maybe keep the older system.

What is your max budget for a complete new build, Geoff?
 
spirit said:
It would be good to house it all in a new case, because then you can maybe keep the older system.

What is your max budget for a complete new build, Geoff?
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I haven't thought about it too much, I mean the cheaper the better, but I'd like to get an awesome rig. Everything here was costing me about $3,300.
 
$3300 for the parts I recommended?

There are ways to make it cheaper still without really compromising performance.
 
Yeah I know but I get the impression that he felt he had to spend that much and not that he necessarily wanted to spend that much.
 
spirit said:
Yeah I know but I get the impression that he felt he had to spend that much and not that he necessarily wanted to spend that much.
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voyagerfan99 said:
He buys a new car every other year. He has money to blow ;)
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Haha, I actually buy a new car every year O.o

I don't want to spend more than necessary. I found that if I basically upgrade my existing computer, keeping the case, PSU, optical drive, and only having 1 240GB SSD, the total came to around $2,500.
 
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