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[Meathead]

Hey guys, I am building a new pc, my dream pc is finely coming! Hurray!

My Rig Specs

CPU : Intel Xeon E5 2630 6 Core at 2.8ghz stock or Intel Xeon E5 2650 8 Core at 2.8ghz stock x2
Motherboard : EVGA A2 Classified SR-2 Supports 2 cpus and 7 graphics cards
New Motherboard : EVGA Classified SR-X 270-SE-W888-KR
Ram : Corsair Dominator 3x12GB kits Dont need to much ram.
Graphics Card :EVGA GeForce GTX 680 4GB FTW x2
SSD : 120gig for OS 120gig for vmware
HDD : 2 TB for WoW and Steam and 1TB for music and of course my 6tb externals for random crap
PowerSupply : Antec 1050watts
Capture Card : AVerMedia Live Gamer HD Capture Card

I do plan to take photo's of the build and update this thread

I can not wait too set it all up with water cooling on the 2 cpus but gcards will still be on air. while summing it all up it will cost around 2800.

I am running a decent setup atm but I want more! I am not mainly doing this for WoW and Games but for 3d Animation and Rendering since I do Game Dev for a living.

Here is my setup atm i7 920 at 4.4ghz 16gig ram 2x 570ti's SOC with 1 ssd for OS

Pic http://sphotos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/296367_10151208881431675_1294243750_n.jpg

[Meathead]

Reserved

[HPAVC]

What Xeons? You might look at the ASUS Z9PE-D8, people have been very happy with it and a lot more features. The case requirements as well if your not fully populating it.

[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?

[Meathead]

Yea I have decided to update to the 2011 sockets and SR X mobo now I was thinking the 1366 socket due to the Xeon World Record CPU that was unlocked but looking at the cost that them 1100 each for 5.0ghz is not worth it,

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?

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. Hard Drives are 10,000 RPM

[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?).

[Kicksome]

Like MiRai said, I would suggest a SSD to run the games on, even if you have to put them on your main SSD. A 10k RPM drive can do 150 IOPs, a SSD drive can do 5,000 - 50,000. And games like wow have to do a ton of random reads, which a HDD isn't good at, and SSDs are great at.

[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

[jstanthr]

with the budget your using, it would be crazy not to go with a "real" raid card and a few ssd's in raid, or at least 2 to 3 on the onboard controller.

just my personal opinion of course.

JsT

[Meathead]

I could place 2 60 gig ssd in raid for WoW and 1 ssd for OS but I find that hdd's are fast enuf for steam games