I need a number crunching Spec.

Asomodai

Asomodai

Asomodai

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Hey guys.

I am building a PC for someone who needs it for number crunching.

Wants: SSD, Good upgradeability options, good number crunching ability preferably without overclocking, 2 24inch monitors. Whilst it doesant have to be a silent PC, he would like it to be quietish.

Got about £1200 to play around with. This must include all the parts needed to build the PC and 2 24inch monitors.

He would prefer to stick to Intel procs if possible. Gaming performance is not really needed, though sometimes he plays train simulators. He already has an OS.

What do you reckon?

Cheers!
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £259.99
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £148.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian 650D Gaming Midi Tower - Black £139.99
1 x MSI Z68A-G45-G3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £114.98
1 x Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE DIRT3 & Deus Ex PC Games £113.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H80 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/LGA2011/AM2/AM3) £82.99
1 x Antec TruePower New Modular 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £59.99
1 x Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (0F10383) £59.99
2 x G.Skill RipJawsX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL ) £37.99 (£75.98)
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.98
Total : £1,087.38 (includes shipping : £13.75).




Don't really see a need for anything better than this.

Best CPU, Large SSD, Good Case, G3 Mobo so should support Ivy, 6850 for multiple screen power and the occasional game with a PSU that would allow for xFire if he decided to get more into the gaming. H80 cooling - quiet. 1TB of space. 16GB of RAM.

kd
 
King Damager said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £259.99
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £148.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian 650D Gaming Midi Tower - Black £139.99
1 x MSI Z68A-G45-G3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £114.98
1 x Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 6850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE DIRT3 & Deus Ex PC Games £113.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H80 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/LGA2011/AM2/AM3) £82.99
1 x Antec TruePower New Modular 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £59.99
1 x Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (0F10383) £59.99
2 x G.Skill RipJawsX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL ) £37.99 (£75.98)
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.98
Total : £1,087.38 (includes shipping : £13.75).




Don't really see a need for anything better than this.

Best CPU, Large SSD, Good Case, G3 Mobo so should support Ivy, 6850 for multiple screen power and the occasional game with a PSU that would allow for xFire if he decided to get more into the gaming. H80 cooling - quiet. 1TB of space. 16GB of RAM.

kd
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Not a bad spec at all, but wheres the monitors? Also he would probably want raided SSD's with a minimum of 256GB. I dont think he'll need that sorta graphics card. Just enough to drive 2 monitors (maybe 3 if I can get the price down!) Would love the G3 support, but only if it had more then 2 Sata III ports. 4 preferably.

I have been playing around with my own spec a little, I would have loved to fit a water cooler in it, but having problems! I should have mentioned that he can get business rates, so EX Vat.


Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor
(£212.49)

X2 IIyama Prolite E2473HDS 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black
(£249.98)

Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive
(£248.32)

Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
(£91.66)

Crucial Ballistix Elite 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C9 1866MHz
(£62.49)

Asus ATI Radeon HD 6670 SILENT EDITION 1024MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card
(£58.32)

BeQuiet Efficient Power 600W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply
(£54.16)

X2 Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM
(£103.32)

Xigmatek Asgard Midi Tower Case - Black
(£24.99)

Scythe Shuriken Rev.B Quiet Low Profile CPU Cooler
(£23.32)

Foam Silencing Kit for Xigmatek Asgard Cases
(£19.99)

Sony Optiarc AD-7280S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM
(£15.82)

A bit over budget at £1,164.86 he would prefer to stick at £1000 ish. Could take out one of the WD blacks and the CPU cooler and stick the water cooler in there.
 
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You use the CPU's built-in HD3000 GFX via the motherboards HDMI and DVI output to each monitor.
 
I had endless issues with the onboard gfx on the intel chip. Train simulators have a lot of background detail? Thought why not. Or stick with the i7, drop down to 8GB ram and still have enough for a GTX 460?
 
Aren't GPUs much better @ number crunching than CPU's? pretty sure thats what Cuda was made for. something to think about
 
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I think he would prefer a discrete graphics solution, but not particularly powerful. He rarely plays train simulators tbh. It is really not that important. Its a desktop for his business.
 
ed79 said:
Yeah, but only if the software being used supports it.
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Then that question is one of importance. Asomodai, what software is he using? It is important to note whether it heavily utilizes the GPU.

It is possible he would benefit more from a i5 + Nvidia workstation card than using onboard and an i7.
 
Predicament said:
Then that question is one of importance. Asomodai, what software is he using? It is important to note whether it heavily utilizes the GPU.

It is possible he would benefit more from a i5 + Nvidia workstation card than using onboard and an i7.
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Office 2010 professional, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe audition, Batsound, R (http://www.r-project.org/) Statistical computing software 64 Bit), @Risk for Excel, Excelstat, Chemoffice and minitab.

Cheers!
 
Looking at a few of those apps, a nvidia card with CUDA support can be of benefit to you, Adobe for example.
 
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