I'm finally building an over-the-top work and gaming rig!
Alright so all my life I've built computers that were decent, but always what I'd call "Budget Extreme". I'd go after AMD processors, overclockable components that weren't great stock but could be manipulated to perform the way you want, etc.
Well this school year I've received some extra money, quite a bit extra money, enough where I can invest 3k-4k USD comfortably into a system and still have some left over cash for food and gas to get to class... (tuition's all paid, wooh).
Here's my build:
What I have:
CaseLabs Magnum SMA8, this thing is a beast, is fully modular, (you can even extend the top or bottom by adding more panels, pedestals etc.) This case is on its way and was special ordered on the 5th with customized venting for water cooling/radiators.
EVGA 1000w P2 Platinum 80 PLUS PSU, massive power supply unit that should be capable of handling the load on this system:
What I will be getting (waiting a few months to see if there are better x99 motherboards and to see how DDR4 is, since it's quite new to the market):
intel Haswell-E 5960x 8-core, 16-hyperthreaded beast of a CPU.
Hyper-X 32GB 4x8gb quadchannel 3000MHz DDR4 RAM.
ASUS Rampage V Extreme x99 chipset motherboard, will wait to see how benchmarks go, might change to a different board.
Sapphire R9 295x2 GDDR5 OC'd Radeon card. Because even the next nvidia card is only half the power (if we are talking their GTX line). I may also add a second one eventually, depending on how much power my system eats with a single one.
Storage will be two SSDs mirrored (possibly, I might do a single to start, would love to see the double performance increase of mirrored SSD), and three 4TB drives, possibly mirroring two in RAID for data backup.
My main goal at the moment is to build up the computer case, purchase the water radiators, get everything lined up so that it looks nice. I don't want a half-assed waterloop like the one I've got on my current seven year old PC. This time I'm going to go with PETG tubing, this stuff is a lot better than acrylic, far more brittle than PETG. I am going with D5's for the pumps, as I have a D355 in this one and am not as impressed as I think I'd be with the more powerful pump.
This is going to be a ridiculously fun build when it's done.
Alright so all my life I've built computers that were decent, but always what I'd call "Budget Extreme". I'd go after AMD processors, overclockable components that weren't great stock but could be manipulated to perform the way you want, etc.
Well this school year I've received some extra money, quite a bit extra money, enough where I can invest 3k-4k USD comfortably into a system and still have some left over cash for food and gas to get to class... (tuition's all paid, wooh).
Here's my build:
What I have:
CaseLabs Magnum SMA8, this thing is a beast, is fully modular, (you can even extend the top or bottom by adding more panels, pedestals etc.) This case is on its way and was special ordered on the 5th with customized venting for water cooling/radiators.
EVGA 1000w P2 Platinum 80 PLUS PSU, massive power supply unit that should be capable of handling the load on this system:
What I will be getting (waiting a few months to see if there are better x99 motherboards and to see how DDR4 is, since it's quite new to the market):
intel Haswell-E 5960x 8-core, 16-hyperthreaded beast of a CPU.
Hyper-X 32GB 4x8gb quadchannel 3000MHz DDR4 RAM.
ASUS Rampage V Extreme x99 chipset motherboard, will wait to see how benchmarks go, might change to a different board.
Sapphire R9 295x2 GDDR5 OC'd Radeon card. Because even the next nvidia card is only half the power (if we are talking their GTX line). I may also add a second one eventually, depending on how much power my system eats with a single one.
Storage will be two SSDs mirrored (possibly, I might do a single to start, would love to see the double performance increase of mirrored SSD), and three 4TB drives, possibly mirroring two in RAID for data backup.
My main goal at the moment is to build up the computer case, purchase the water radiators, get everything lined up so that it looks nice. I don't want a half-assed waterloop like the one I've got on my current seven year old PC. This time I'm going to go with PETG tubing, this stuff is a lot better than acrylic, far more brittle than PETG. I am going with D5's for the pumps, as I have a D355 in this one and am not as impressed as I think I'd be with the more powerful pump.
This is going to be a ridiculously fun build when it's done.
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