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[MiRai]

A $5,000 gaming machine with:

Games on a 7200 RPM HDD?
GTX 680s for 3D rendering?

What?

Wait... you're building a dual-Xeon Socket 1366 machine in the later half of 2012?

[MiRai]

I now have changed my mobo and xeons and for the graphics card question my rendering software I use for work and home uses the GPU CUDA Cores I could use rendering cards for my pc but I would rather the 680's due to price and gaming.

It makes sense using CUDA cores so that you can still game on the GPUs, I just wasn't sure if you were super super serious about 3D rendering. You'll also need to choose new RAM kits for the quad channel that Socket 2011 uses.

Hard Drives are 10,000 RPM

I didn't know they made 2TB HDDs that spin that fast. Either way, with as much money as you're sinking into this machine, surely you could afford a 256GB or 512GB SSD (does your gaming drive really need to be two terabytes?).

[Meathead]

It makes sense using CUDA cores so that you can still game on the GPUs, I just wasn't sure if you were super super serious about 3D rendering. You'll also need to choose new RAM kits for the quad channel that Socket 2011 uses.


I didn't know they made 2TB HDDs that spin that fast. Either way, with as much money as you're sinking into this machine, surely you could afford a 256GB or 512GB SSD (does your gaming drive really need to be two terabytes?).

Yea I have to update the list abit, It is alot of money to sink into but its well worth it for what I need and do. May even get just another 120 SSD for WoW and keep steam on a HDD since my steam folder is well over 700gig. Good thing WoW got smaller in size, I intend too keep this pc for at least 4 years or more, My rendering can take up to 2 weeks too finish on the computers at work, We are trying to optimize our software for more CUDA use then CPU