workstation cad sub £1000 help me get the right parts

tris101

tris101

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Hi guys I need some help I’m looking at putting together a sub £1000 workstation for CAD. I have short listed the parts below, would you change anything?

It needs to be solid, reliable and reasonably silent. I will not be doing much overclocking.

Case must be no bigger the TJ08B-E

Pc spec:

Asus P8Z77-M PRO, Intel Z77, S 1155, DDR3, SATA III - 6Gb/s, PCIe 3.0 (x16), D-Sub (VGA)/ DVI-D/ HDMI, Micro ATX

BX80637I53570K - Intel Core i5 3570K,1155, Ivy Bridge, Quad Core, 3.4GHz, 5 GT/s DMI, 650MHz GPU, 6MB Smart Cache, 34x Ratio, 77W, Retail

CMZ16GX3M2A1600C10 - 16GB (2x8GB) Corsair DDR3 Vengeance Jet Black, PC3-12800 (1600), Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 10-10-10-27, XMP, 1.5V

CWCH60 - Corsair Cooling Hydro Series H60 High-performance CPU Cooler, LGA1156 / 1155, LGA775, LGA1366, AM2 and AM3

AGT3-25SAT3-240G - 240GB OCZ Agility 3 SSD, 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s, SandForce 2281, Read 525Mb/s, Write 500Mb/s, 85K IOPS

Pioneer BDR-207DBK Blu-ray Writer 12x BD-R, x8 DVD±DL x16 DVD±R x6 DVD±RW SATA Black OEM

WL-GI-600-11N - Dynamode 11n (300MBps) Wireless PCI Adapter
SST-TJ08B-E - Silverstone TJ08B-E Temjin Evolution, Black microATX Tower Case, Aluminium/Steel with USB 3.0, w/o PSU

750W OCZ OCZ750FTY-UK Fatal1ty Series PSU, 85% Eff, 80PLUS, 135mm Fan
FQC-04649 - Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit SP1, Operating System, Single, - OEM

I will also be using some parts I already have:

1TB Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black, SATA III 6Gb/s, 7200rpm, 64MB Cache, 8ms

VCQ4000-PB - 2GB PNY Nvidia Quadro 4000, PCIe 2.0 (x16), 256Bit GDDR5, 2x DisplayPort/ Dual Link DVI-I/ Stereo Graphics port, Retail

27" Dell U2711 A12 Widescreen IPS, 2560x1440, HDMI, 2xDVI-D, Display Port, 5 x USB, 8-in-1 reader

MFC-00007 - Microsoft Wireless Desktop 3000 BlueTrack Black Keyboard with 3 Button Scroll Mouse
 
Looks fine but if you are not overclocking i would suggest an Intel Board and some Kingston ValueRam. Intel boards all the way (In most cases) For reliability.
 
if your not overclocking i would drop the K series processor and the Z77 for a H77 board and just get a cheep quiet cpu cooler rather than an AIO H60
 
Thanks for the input I was thinking of over clocking to around 3.9>4.1Ghz

I was also trying to keep options open for later upgrades i.e. add extra 16GB ram and faster i7 CPU.

I will tkae a look at some intel boards and vaule ram.

The water cooler is not realy needed but as the case is quite small I thought it might help improve cooling and air flow. Air flow with a large CPU fan in the case looks poor.

I see OcUK do a H²Flo Liquid Single Fan CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366/1155/1156/775/AM2/AM3) [ECO II-120] kit too might would allow me to choose a nice quiet fan
 
I prefer air to water as it is quieter and simpler.... Very few problems with air. There are some very efficient coolers that are not huge.
 
I was afraid you would ask that. I use bigger cases and the TJ08B-E doesn't give much room between HDD and cooler and only 165mm height. There is a single core that offsets it's pipes so it sets back farther on CPU. Let me look about.
 
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