Advice needed on partial new build.

starflyer · 14 Apr 2015 at 13:02

Hi,

I'm looking for advice on a partial new build. It'll mainly be used for heavy image processing / number crunching and I also need a biggish chunk of reasonably robust storage. I may do some gaming for fun, CS:GO etc but don't expect top end graphics.

At the moment I have an ageing Intel Q6600, 4GB with ~ 2TB of raid 10 storage and a 128GB SSD, so I'm thinking that anything will be an improvement.

I have a lovely Silverstone (ATX) case and a decent 1000w corsair PSU that I plan to re-use. I'd like to re-use the SSD (Samsung 830 series) as it's quite new and fine for OS drive, unless someone tells me it'll be a big bottleneck.

Budget is around £600, maybe stretching to £700.

I think I need 4 x 3TB drives in raid 10, at around 5.4TB this will give me a couple of years growing space. Everything else I'll leave open as I've totally lost touch with what's what.

Thanks for reading, let me know if I've missed anything obvious.

Ian

stulid · 14 Apr 2015 at 13:07

Do you know what case it is that you have?

The SSD you can reuse.

starflyer · 14 Apr 2015 at 13:12

It looks identical to the Fortress FT01 but with USB2.0, it's three or four years old.

starflyer · 14 Apr 2015 at 14:28

I should add that I'm happy to build myself and I also a have a Win7 Pro licence from a previous build that ended up being a Linux server.

Thanks,

Ian

stulid · 14 Apr 2015 at 14:29

I came up with,

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4790 3.60GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £259.99
1 x GeIL Black Dragon 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD316GB1600C11DC) **OcUK Exclusive** £89.99
4 x Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST3000DM001) HDD £84.98 (£339.92)
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £63.95
Total : £763.46 (includes shipping : £8.00).

And use the onboard gfx core but that rules out gaming.

Or with a Bgrade gfx card and a i5,

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte Z97X-SLI - Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K Bundle **£12 Saving** £277.98
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED316G2400HC11CDC01) £99.95
4 x Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST3000DM001) HDD £84.98 (£339.92)
1 x **B Grade** MSI Radeon R9 270X Gaming Edition OC 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express G (GX-226-MS) £79.99
Total : £807.46 (includes shipping : £8.00).

starflyer · 14 Apr 2015 at 15:34

Thanks for that, I'm leaning towards the i7 and then adding a gfx card next month.