Hi guys. been out the loop for a few years so having this built.
Changed a few of specs but hear it is now.
Any issues?
Will be using for gaming (old skool cs player who used to only be content with 120hz w/ 120fps. Been too many years on xbox, need to come back strong. If its not smooth as silk after the money/time waited, not worth it), photoshop, 3dmax, premier, unity(just starting), maybe some utube/twitch.
Not massively keen on case but told would be quieter than most, although i was going to go for something with glass side to have a Tron wet dream, silent-ish PC would be great.
Case: Fractal Define R4 Black Case
Power Supply: Seasonic 850W Gold Power Supply
Processor: Intel Core i7 4930K Six Core (3.4GHz, 12MB Cache overclockable upto 4.4GHz, Hyperthreading) Socket 2011
CPU Cooler: Corsair Hydro Series H100 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
Graphics Card 1: nVidia GeForce GTX 780 3GB GDDR5 PCI Express Graphics Card
Memory: 16GB Corsair DDR3 1866MHz C10 Quad Channel Memory Kit (2 x 8GB)
Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth Intel X79 Motherboard (2 way SLI and Crossfire, 8+2+2+2 Xtreme VRM, TUF Components and Design)
Hard Disk Drive One: 500GB Samsung 840 Evo SSD
Hard Disk Drive Two: 1TB Seagate 64MB Cache
Optical Drive One: Blu-Ray Rewriter & DVD-RW Combo Drive
Sound Card: Onboard HD 7.1 Audio
Operating System: Windows8Pro 64bit
-Soundcard
Should I? Would it tax the system less? Espicialy in premier/gaming.
-Mobo
Any fancy things can do with latest motherboard? See a lot of fancy talk but no idea what half means other than duel booting, and quicker ssd OS booting.
-Partitioning/duel booting/ keeping safe and recovering
Worth doing this to stick on Steam OS or linux?
I want to have a practical ability this time to be able to access drives and recover data if all goes wrong. Also linux sounds the 'safer' daily web browsing routine, then switch to windows for everything else? Maybe USB pen to boot linux or sandbox vpn browser instead? Tor recommended?
Sorry for random offtopic but wondering about workflow and keeping new system safe, sustainable, and untraceable if going down utube/twitch route.
-Storage
Also need a another HDD for backup. And recommendation on HDD that keeps for long time? Running a couple of 80gb and 120gb that last years, but too slow and too small. Keep seeing the external WD, but majority of feedback dying after few weeks-1yr, and most ssd solutions hearing only 1-5 years use!!
Need something to store movies, work etc
Thanks guys
Changed a few of specs but hear it is now.
Any issues?
Will be using for gaming (old skool cs player who used to only be content with 120hz w/ 120fps. Been too many years on xbox, need to come back strong. If its not smooth as silk after the money/time waited, not worth it), photoshop, 3dmax, premier, unity(just starting), maybe some utube/twitch.
Not massively keen on case but told would be quieter than most, although i was going to go for something with glass side to have a Tron wet dream, silent-ish PC would be great.
Case: Fractal Define R4 Black Case
Power Supply: Seasonic 850W Gold Power Supply
Processor: Intel Core i7 4930K Six Core (3.4GHz, 12MB Cache overclockable upto 4.4GHz, Hyperthreading) Socket 2011
CPU Cooler: Corsair Hydro Series H100 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
Graphics Card 1: nVidia GeForce GTX 780 3GB GDDR5 PCI Express Graphics Card
Memory: 16GB Corsair DDR3 1866MHz C10 Quad Channel Memory Kit (2 x 8GB)
Motherboard: Asus Sabertooth Intel X79 Motherboard (2 way SLI and Crossfire, 8+2+2+2 Xtreme VRM, TUF Components and Design)
Hard Disk Drive One: 500GB Samsung 840 Evo SSD
Hard Disk Drive Two: 1TB Seagate 64MB Cache
Optical Drive One: Blu-Ray Rewriter & DVD-RW Combo Drive
Sound Card: Onboard HD 7.1 Audio
Operating System: Windows8Pro 64bit
-Soundcard
Should I? Would it tax the system less? Espicialy in premier/gaming.
-Mobo
Any fancy things can do with latest motherboard? See a lot of fancy talk but no idea what half means other than duel booting, and quicker ssd OS booting.
-Partitioning/duel booting/ keeping safe and recovering
Worth doing this to stick on Steam OS or linux?
I want to have a practical ability this time to be able to access drives and recover data if all goes wrong. Also linux sounds the 'safer' daily web browsing routine, then switch to windows for everything else? Maybe USB pen to boot linux or sandbox vpn browser instead? Tor recommended?
Sorry for random offtopic but wondering about workflow and keeping new system safe, sustainable, and untraceable if going down utube/twitch route.
-Storage
Also need a another HDD for backup. And recommendation on HDD that keeps for long time? Running a couple of 80gb and 120gb that last years, but too slow and too small. Keep seeing the external WD, but majority of feedback dying after few weeks-1yr, and most ssd solutions hearing only 1-5 years use!!
Need something to store movies, work etc
Thanks guys
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