Hi all,
Right here goes. My Brother in law has asked me to build him a new system.
His needs are as follows:-
He is a programmer, and does lots of intensive database work, and he also wishes to have good graphics for gaming as well. He would like Raid 5 on his storage drives which I think will probably be 3 x WD 2TB Black drives. Operating system will be placed on a 256Gb ssd.He wants the system to be as quiet as possible so it will be a custom water cooling build - preferably both cpu and Gpu, all built in a mid tower(think this could be a restriction as far as water cooling goes), but the case is up for choice as yet.
The real crunch for me is I think he wants a SAS controller card for the raid 5 storage - any advice on this please gents as I have no experience in particular about SAS controllers.
What I have chosen so far is:-
Asus P9X79 WS board
Processor 4930K - will be modestly over clocked
32Gb of reasonably fast Ram - to be decided, maybe 16GB may be enough?
A Nvidia780GTX Graphics - also to be over-clocked by a bit.
PSU - either seasonic 760W platinum or 860W platinum to allow upgrade for the future(maybe a seccond graphics card?)
SSD 250Gb samsung evo?
Good quality sound card - your suggestions here?
Fan controller- probably Lamptron
The budget for all this needs to be somewhere around the 2K mark, give or take. At the end of the day he wants a quiet and very fast system.
Your thoughts and suggestions are very welcome as always - what do you think guys?
Mark
Right here goes. My Brother in law has asked me to build him a new system.
His needs are as follows:-
He is a programmer, and does lots of intensive database work, and he also wishes to have good graphics for gaming as well. He would like Raid 5 on his storage drives which I think will probably be 3 x WD 2TB Black drives. Operating system will be placed on a 256Gb ssd.He wants the system to be as quiet as possible so it will be a custom water cooling build - preferably both cpu and Gpu, all built in a mid tower(think this could be a restriction as far as water cooling goes), but the case is up for choice as yet.
The real crunch for me is I think he wants a SAS controller card for the raid 5 storage - any advice on this please gents as I have no experience in particular about SAS controllers.
What I have chosen so far is:-
Asus P9X79 WS board
Processor 4930K - will be modestly over clocked
32Gb of reasonably fast Ram - to be decided, maybe 16GB may be enough?
A Nvidia780GTX Graphics - also to be over-clocked by a bit.
PSU - either seasonic 760W platinum or 860W platinum to allow upgrade for the future(maybe a seccond graphics card?)
SSD 250Gb samsung evo?
Good quality sound card - your suggestions here?
Fan controller- probably Lamptron
The budget for all this needs to be somewhere around the 2K mark, give or take. At the end of the day he wants a quiet and very fast system.
Your thoughts and suggestions are very welcome as always - what do you think guys?
Mark