Haswell ITX Build

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Curlyriff

Curlyriff

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Am thinking about playing around with a fun little ITX water cooled build with the BitFenix Prodigy. Space may be tight but yeah, will see.

There are a few mod parts I need to sort out like cables etc but am likely to go for a different supplier for that since OcUK do not have anything that would suit.

Anyways here is where I have got to:

YOUR BASKET
1 x VTX3D HD 7970 GHZ X-Edition 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £319.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail with FREE Grid 2 PC Game £269.99
1 x Corsair Dominator PLATINUM 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit with DHX Pro Connector (CMD16GX3M2A1866C9) £169.99
1 x Seasonic 760w '80 Plus Platinum' Modular Power Supply £149.99
1 x ASRock Z87E-ITX Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ITX Motherboard £139.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD30EZRX) HDD £99.98
1 x XSPC Razor 7970 VGA Waterblock £84.98
1 x XSPC AX240 Dual Fan Radiator (Black) £74.98
1 x BitFenix Prodigy Mini-ITX Cube Case - Midnight Black £69.95
1 x EK-D5 X-RES 140 CSQ - Acetal £59.99
1 x XSPC D5 Vario (Body + Screwring) £56.99
1 x XSPC RayStorm CPU WaterBlock (Intel) £51.98
1 x Bitspower D5 Mod Kit £39.98
1 x Monsoon 16/11mm (ID 7/16 OD 5/8) Free Center Compression Fitting Six Pack - Blue £27.95
2 x Corsair AF120 Performance Series Low Noise High Airflow - Dual Pack £25.99 (£51.98)
1 x Foam Silencing Kit - BitFenix Prodigy Case £20.99
1 x Bitspower G 1/4" Temperature Sensor Stop Fitting - matt black £9.98
1 x BitFenix Prodigy Window Side Panel - Black £9.98
4 x Bitspower G 1/4" 90 Degree IG 1/4" Adapter - Matte Black £6.98 (£27.92)
2 x XSPC HighFlex Hose 7/16" ID, 5/8" OD, 15.9/11.1mm, 2m, Blue/UV Blue £5.99 (£11.98)
2 x XSPC HighFlex Hose 7/16" ID, 5/8" OD, 15.9/11.1mm, 2m, Black £5.99 (£11.98)
2 x Monsoon 16/11mm (ID 7/16 OD 5/8) Free Center Compression Fitting - Blue £5.29 (£10.58)
2 x Mayhems Ultra Pure H20 Watercooling Fluid 1L £4.99 (£9.98)
3 x Mayhems Fine Silver Kill Coil £4.5 (£13.50)
Total : £1,812.13 (includes shipping : £13.75).



Thoughts? Budget, well is unknown but keeping it under 2k. For gaming and for working with CAD software, rendering etc also hence the i7 rather than i5 and 16GB of RAM.

AutoCAD itself uses around 6GB on day to day actives.
 
Whats your ratio of CAD to Gaming, you maybe better with an AMD Firepro Card or an Nvidia Quadro in place.

Here is an example of an Nvidia Quadro Vs GTX Card to show the difference, On paper the 670 is Much Higher spec'd than the Quadro 600 But this vido speaks for itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl4yNCgD3iA

Craig
 
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what cad software... 3ds max rendering for example works better with nvidia gpu's if you use iray due to cuda only, vray works with both nvidia/amd etc... solidworks seems to work better with amd (although nvidia will be ok here too)

Oh and that youtube is on about viewport performance which is correct that in some cases quadro is better although it's not as much in 3ds max in my experience these days due to being more direct x driven
 
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If you can hold out, a new revision of the prodigy shown at computex will be out which uses the MATX board, more options for later on due to less pci-e slot limitations.

Around the 4min mark for the prodigy.
 
Cheers for the replies.

I am 65% gaming as this is home machine and only a little private work.

I am using autocad, revit and solidworks.

Did look at the team group. Between the timings and rated speed I was going to attempt to clock the dominator and it does look smarter. But I will certainly take that in mind. Thanks.

As for case, that could be interesting. I am in no rush. My tower is perfectly fine. Just wanting to something different so very much willing to wait on the right stuff.

Cheers all.
 
Oh and I have forgot to mention I have a Samsung 256gb 840 pro for my boot and game drive. The 3tb will be for storage really for work, music and movies.

Don't need a disc drive as will use external as and when needed.
 
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Checking out what bitfenix are bringing out I am tempted for the phenom m. It just looks like a cleaner version of the Prodigy by removing the handles to keep the case smaller as per the form factor.

Very classy, plus it appears you can use the window panel from the prodigy as well assuming the main body is the same.
 
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