critique this build please

The Corsair vengence, 4X4 16 GB Ram and the Samsung spinpoint 1TB 32 mb cache ,Hard drive arrived today.
but 3 days later than they should have, they were in bubble wrap and the hard drive also in a cardboard box, all were very well protected.
Thanks over clockers.co.uk! the service so far has been great!

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99Androidguy777 said:
OK so the ram and the hard drive have arrived :D

these are the other parts I am considering buying asap

I'm debating waiting for the Ivy bridge processor and the ATI HD 7990 Graphics card.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 256GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £319.99
1 x Asus Maximus IV Extreme-Z Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £299.99
1 x Intel Core i7-2700K 3.50GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM **Supplied with BattleField 3 PC Game** £274.99
2 x HIS ATI Radeon HD 6950 IceQ X Turbo 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £249.98 (£499.96)
1 x Silverstone Fortress 2 FT02B-W Windowed Gaming Case - Black £229.99
1 x Asus Xonar HDAV1.3 Deluxe Sound Card £179.99
1 x Corsair Professional Series AX850 High Performance 850W Modular '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply (CMPSU-850AXUK) £169.99
1 x Pioneer BDR-206MBK 12x BDXL BluRay RW / 16x DVD±RW Drive - Black (OEM) £159.98
1 x Phanteks PH-TC14PE CPU Cooler - Blue (LGA 2011,1155,1156, LGA 1366, LGA775 and AMD AM2/2+/AM3) £79.99
1 x Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £8.99
Total : £2,244.10 (includes shipping : £16.85).

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If as you mention in your other post, you're plannning on 3d work, the first thing I'd recomend is an Nvidia card, the CUDA cores are handy if you want to use mental ray as you can use the iray hardware renderer, you can also use PhysX acceleration in animation simulation in max, which can on occasion came in handy, I have nothing against the ATI cards, in fact Eyefinity is excellent, but I like the options Nvidia offer. Also Nvidia for hardware acceleration in adobe products.

For rendering you'll want as many cores as possible, and you definatly want hyperthreading, when I moved from a QX6700 to an i7 920 the speed increase through hypertreading was jaw dropping, both 4 core chips both at 2.66 stock the i7 was between 2-3 times faster, partly down to the chip architecture but mostly because 3d Rendering is perfect for hyper threading.

If you can afford it I'd say go Sandybridge-E, I get the feeling the first batch of Ivybridge chips will be nice low power quadcores, great for gaming and good clockers, but short on cores. Now Ivybridge-E, that could be interesting.

SSD/HDD look good, I go through a lot of HDD space, but with prices as they are I would just get what you need for now.

That case is a beauty, I'm thinking of replacing an old P180 with that.

Cooling, I've had a Noctua for a while on my i7 920, and it's nice and quiet but I have to say I've been dissapointed by its cooling, it's probably the case letting it down (Old P180 with no cable management) so I've been using closed loop water cooling on a couple of workstations and been impressed with it, I work in a small dusty room with lots of computers in it (6 desktops right now) and aircoolers tend to get clogged so it could be just me.

I don't worry much about soundcards these days, I run a pc through an old dennon amp with a pair of Beyerdynamics and it works fine for me with an old soundblaster audigy, most machines I use onboard sound so that card I'm sure will sound lovely.

Arctic 5? I think there are better pastes these days, some one will know.

I also don't really use optical drives any more, so if you need blue ray, I'm sure that's a great one, it'll install windows really well :)

Hope that helps.
 
flippant said:
If as you mention in your other post, you're plannning on 3d work, the first thing I'd recomend is an Nvidia card, the CUDA cores are handy if you want to use mental ray as you can use the iray hardware renderer, you can also use PhysX acceleration in animation simulation in max, which can on occasion came in handy, I have nothing against the ATI cards, in fact Eyefinity is excellent, but I like the options Nvidia offer. Also Nvidia for hardware acceleration in adobe products.

For rendering you'll want as many cores as possible, and you definatly want hyperthreading, when I moved from a QX6700 to an i7 920 the speed increase through hypertreading was jaw dropping, both 4 core chips both at 2.66 stock the i7 was between 2-3 times faster, partly down to the chip architecture but mostly because 3d Rendering is perfect for hyper threading.

If you can afford it I'd say go Sandybridge-E, I get the feeling the first batch of Ivybridge chips will be nice low power quadcores, great for gaming and good clockers, but short on cores. Now Ivybridge-E, that could be interesting.

SSD/HDD look good, I go through a lot of HDD space, but with prices as they are I would just get what you need for now.

That case is a beauty, I'm thinking of replacing an old P180 with that.

Cooling, I've had a Noctua for a while on my i7 920, and it's nice and quiet but I have to say I've been dissapointed by its cooling, it's probably the case letting it down (Old P180 with no cable management) so I've been using closed loop water cooling on a couple of workstations and been impressed with it, I work in a small dusty room with lots of computers in it (6 desktops right now) and aircoolers tend to get clogged so it could be just me.

I don't worry much about soundcards these days, I run a pc through an old dennon amp with a pair of Beyerdynamics and it works fine for me with an old soundblaster audigy, most machines I use onboard sound so that card I'm sure will sound lovely.

Arctic 5? I think there are better pastes these days, some one will know.

I also don't really use optical drives any more, so if you need blue ray, I'm sure that's a great one, it'll install windows really well :)

Hope that helps.
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Thanks man, The 3D program I will be getting after the new computer is Modo
and that has a great renderer built in and takes full advantage of multiple cores, I currently use freeware called blender. Modo is considerably cheaper to buy than 3D studio max "5K no thanks" , I hope to get Z brush aswell as modo.
around 2200 is my budget for the computer and I cannot afford to go over that as I'll be also getting a new monitor aswell as these programs.

I just didn't realize all the cores you have mentioned make such a huge difference. although I am making an invesment right now with all this stuff and I am only around the 3D scene a year.

Id like to think my part selection is playing it safe, I will consider what you said though.
 
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Thanks man, The 3D program I will be getting after the new computer is Modo
and that has a great renderer built in and takes full advantage of multiple cores, I currently use freeware called blender. Modo is considerably cheaper to buy than 3D studio max "5K no thanks" , I hope to get Z brush aswell as modo.
around 2200 is my budget for the computer and I cannot afford to go over that as I'll be also getting a new monitor aswell as these programs. its all pretty expensive as it is.

I just didn't realize all the cores you have mentioned make such a huge difference. although I am making an invesment right now with all this stuff and I am only around the 3D scene a year.
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Yeah the software makes the pc seem cheap.

From the reviews I've seen the sanybridge quads with hyperthreading compare pretty well to 6 cores on 1366, so I don't think the 2700k is going to be a problem.

The initial outlay is always painful but if you can get the business it will pay for itself in no time. The quicker you work, the more you can do, and the more you can do the more you can earn.

Good luck with it, it's a fun, if hectic line of work, and a great way to feed the upgrade demon:D
 
the cooler will come with either pre-applied tim or tube in the box, mx-4 is the one to go for over the ac5 but is out of stock.

do you really need the blue ray player/writer you've chosen?
 
Just noticed you have a crossfire setup in there, if that's for gaming it's fine, but as far as I know no 3D software will make use of crossfire or sli, so it's a waste for a workstation.
 
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the cooler will come with either pre-applied tim or tube in the box, mx-4 is the one to go for over the ac5 but is out of stock.

do you really need the blue ray player/writer you've chosen?
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What do you recommend ? I am opened to cheapening up where I can as long as it doesn't compromise my performance, a bluray player/ writer is what I need but at the same time it is somewhere I can compromise a bit.

My attitude is , I want great efficiency at a good price yet future proof. I feel with this whole PC upgrading that the more you spend the better, yet there is a line you have to draw in places as some parts loose value quick.
I hope to wait now for the 7000 series graphics cards though.
 
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Just noticed you have a crossfire setup in there, if that's for gaming it's fine, but as far as I know no 3D software will make use of crossfire or sli, so it's a waste for a workstation.
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Well the thing is, this is a hybrid computer, and that has its pros and cons,
yet its so tempting to specialize.
I think this pc is pretty cheap for what I want to do yet, a little harsh on my wallet.

(Considering changing to Nvida graphics cards, I will wait and see what AMDs next offering is like though, the 7000 series)
 
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99Androidguy777 said:
Well the thing is, this is a hybrid computer, and that has its pros and cons,
yet its so tempting to specialize.
I think this pc is pretty cheap for what I want to do yet, a little harsh on my wallet.

(Considering changing to Nvida graphics cards, I will wait and see what AMDs next offering is like though, the 7000 series)
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That makes sense, no point spending all that cash and not having any fun. I use my SR2 build for battlefield 3, just for research of course.

Just wanted to point that out, in case you were hoping the 3d software would benefit form the dual cards.
 
flippant said:
That makes sense, no point spending all that cash and not having any fun. I use my SR2 build for battlefield 3, just for research of course.

Just wanted to point that out, in case you were hoping the 3d software would benefit form the dual cards.
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I was hoping to wait for an AMD/ATI HD 7990 dual cored card.
I am seriously thinking about Nvidia and a different MB and processor now though.
 
99Androidguy777 said:
What do you recommend ? I am opened to cheapening up where I can as long as it doesn't compromise my performance, a bluray player/ writer is what I need but at the same time it is somewhere I can compromise a bit.

My attitude is , I want great efficiency at a good price yet future proof. I feel with this whole PC upgrading that the more you spend the better, yet there is a line you have to draw in places as some parts loose value quick.
I hope to wait now for the 7000 series graphics cards though.
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You have to be careful with these big coolers, and especially wiht that RAM, which have heat spreaders. AFAIK, none will work with the RAM, unless you set them up in pull configuration (fans in the middle and at the back of the cooling towers). A water cooling unit (H80, H60, Antec Kuhler) will be fine with any ram.
 
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