Overkill build, what do you think?

c0nrade said:
Ahh OCuK, now I know why I hesitated joining, the search continues for a PC forum with mature members. ;)
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you said there was no budget. a blank cheque is what we saw and we went for it..

you want a serious build. give us a budget, and what it will be used for. how many monitors? os? keyboard and mouse?
 
dunn2010 said:
you said there was no budget. a blank cheque is what we saw and we went for it..

you want a serious build. give us a budget, and what it will be used for. how many monitors? os? keyboard and mouse?
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There is no budget in reality, but making builds that are 11k+ adding in t-shirts/mugs is not what I want....

The current build I had in mind was around 4.2K.

I will be playing sim games and FPS games on 3 24" monitors, so if anyone has a build for something like that I would appreciate it.
 
c0nrade said:
This will be used by three 24" monitors for racing games/FPS.

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So, anything you would change if money was no option?
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Why two different variants of storage drives? Why wouldn't you have two of the same?
 
Oh right, so you mean you'd access the green one less often?

If so, i think you can power off hdd's that are not in constant use, ie; the green one.

Good luck with the build anyway, and please do show it off in the project section when it's done or during building if you want.
 
c0nrade said:
The green uses less power and is more of a storage drive than the other.
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Your looking at building a PC with dual GTX 690's and a six core cpu overclocked to 4.6ghz and running three monitors
And you worry about saving a few watts of power on one harddrive....:p


I really no understand the way some people think..:confused:
 
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Yeah it will be used less often as it is low power and a slower drive therefore I would store things like movies/music on there and on my SSD games etc.

I will show it off and hopefully I will have it sometime next week or weekend after.

Still not sure on a build as of yet.
 
chaparral said:
Your looking at building a PC with dual GTX 690's and a six core cpu overclocked to 4.6ghz and running three monitors
And you worry about saving a few watts of power on one harddrive....:p


I really no understand the way some people think..:confused:
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Aha, I know it's silly but it makes sense in my head o.0

Anyway this is a build I came up with on OCuK as I might buy from here......

What do you think and what would you change?

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c0nrade said:
There is no budget in reality, but making builds that are 11k+ adding in t-shirts/mugs is not what I want....

The current build I had in mind was around 4.2K.

I will be playing sim games and FPS games on 3 24" monitors, so if anyone has a build for something like that I would appreciate it.
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ok apologys for the mugs and energy drinks those were just for a laugh......apprently not

and been as you said there was no budget and basically handed a blank cheque we tried to make the most overkill pc possible as there were no constraints based on what you had said, so if you are not willing to spend 11k and deem this "immature" then set a budget, so now that you have said 4.2k is what you had in mind then a pc can be worked for that region

here is a build based on your previous post, you havent stated wether you already have the monitors and wether you need keyboard/mouse/os so i havent added those. also the majority of the sensible priced raid cards are only pre order, so the only one in stock is the £660 one.... but here is the base system, you can change the case i have only provided a good example (800d is amazing case btw see videos around the web) you also add in the monitors and keyboard and mouse should you need them, but this provides you with a system to give you an idea of whats out there, you can swap to preferred brands should you wish also

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kegz665 said:
ok apologys for the mugs and energy drinks those were just for a laugh......apprently not

and been as you said there was no budget and basically handed a blank cheque we tried to make the most overkill pc possible as there were no constraints based on what you had said, so if you are not willing to spend 11k and deem this "immature" then set a budget, so now that you have said 4.2k is what you had in mind then a pc can be worked for that region

here is a build based on your previous post, you havent stated wether you already have the monitors and wether you need keyboard/mouse/os so i havent added those. also the majority of the sensible priced raid cards are only pre order, so the only one in stock is the £660 one.... but here is the base system, you can change the case i have only provided a good example (800d is amazing case btw see videos around the web) you also add in the monitors and keyboard and mouse should you need them, but this provides you with a system to give you an idea of whats out there, you can swap to preferred brands should you wish also
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Wouldn't a Asus Rampage MOBO be the better option?

Everything else looks good, very good, but I wont be building it myself so would need to build my machine with the Overclockers system configurator.
 
i put the champion board in because it has more Sata 6Gb slots in (1 more) also it has one more Pci-16 slot and the rampage is for overclocking should you choose, so if your not going to overclock then the champion gets you more more internal ports for your money. But the rampage has better overclocking ability apprently (from reviews) and rampage has twice as many usb 3 slots (8) so evens out the connections really and if you do run dual 690's both mobos can handle them as they are both quad sli (dual 690's is quad sli cause they have 2 gpus on each PCB)

only difference is wether your going to overclock and wether your going to use that one extra sata slot further down the line, at the end of the day it comes down to your choice and both have pros over each other in my eyes.

for me as a gamer and overclocker the rampage would be my choice
 
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thats as best i can do with the system configurator you chose

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you wont get the same shear power with that system but it will be overkill none the less.

but if you ring OC you can have that system and they will add in what you want, so like that one only has 2 HDD you can ring them and ask for 3 ssd and 1 hdd if you wish and youll get a system nearer to the one spec'd

but if you could buy the parts and then get someone to build them for you? maybe a family member or friend?
 
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