Approximate Purchase Date: Assembly should be completed by Mid August
Budget Range: £600
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Numerical and computational analysis, engineering software (CAD, FEA, etc), Work, Gaming, expected to be running most of the time.
Are you buying a monitor: No, using my current monitors and hd tv via hdmi connection.
Do you need to buy OS: No, using Windows 7 64 bit
Parts Preferences: None
Overclocking: Not initially, but maybe in the future
SLI or Crossfire: Maybe
Additional Comments: It is really important that the system can manage numerical computations, efficiently. Currently for example I have an 8 GB RAM PC and there is not enough memory to run some analysis. For my analysis, I can select the number of CPU cores and amount of RAM to allocate, the more CPU cores/speed and the more RAM, the faster the analysis gets done.
Build
Power Supply Unit
Corsair Memory 600W Builder Series CX V2 ATX PSU
Case
Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black
Motherboard
AsRock Z77 Extreme4 Motherboard (Socket 1155, Intel Z77, Up to 32GB DDR3, ATX, 2 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s, Supports NVIDIA SLI and AMD CrossFireX, Premium Gold Caps)
Processor
Intel Core i5-3570K S1155 3.4GHz 6MB
RAM
Corsair Vengeance LP 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
DVDR
LiteOn iHAS124 SATA DVD Write Optical Drive
Graphics Card
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 550 Ti 970MHz 1GB PCI-Express HDMI Windforce 2X
Harddrive
Seagate 1TB Barracuda SATA 6Gb/s 64MB 7200RPM Hard Drive
I would really appreciate feedback on this current build list, it's seems so easy to get deeper and deeper into think about components. I am particularly interested at this stage in compatibility of components, value for money, and perhaps any other cost effective options you may have to suggest, especially as I am a little over budget. I also have a slight feeling that AMD FX 8120, is a good cost effective option at the moment, but I am sure I will not disappointed with the i5 ivy bridge, dispite the additional cost.
I would also appreciate input on how OverclockersUK can help me save money on my build, any complete and suggested OverclockersUK build lists from other users would be much appreciated. Thanks.
g.
Budget Range: £600
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Numerical and computational analysis, engineering software (CAD, FEA, etc), Work, Gaming, expected to be running most of the time.
Are you buying a monitor: No, using my current monitors and hd tv via hdmi connection.
Do you need to buy OS: No, using Windows 7 64 bit
Parts Preferences: None
Overclocking: Not initially, but maybe in the future
SLI or Crossfire: Maybe
Additional Comments: It is really important that the system can manage numerical computations, efficiently. Currently for example I have an 8 GB RAM PC and there is not enough memory to run some analysis. For my analysis, I can select the number of CPU cores and amount of RAM to allocate, the more CPU cores/speed and the more RAM, the faster the analysis gets done.
Build
Power Supply Unit
Corsair Memory 600W Builder Series CX V2 ATX PSU
Case
Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black
Motherboard
AsRock Z77 Extreme4 Motherboard (Socket 1155, Intel Z77, Up to 32GB DDR3, ATX, 2 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s, Supports NVIDIA SLI and AMD CrossFireX, Premium Gold Caps)
Processor
Intel Core i5-3570K S1155 3.4GHz 6MB
RAM
Corsair Vengeance LP 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
DVDR
LiteOn iHAS124 SATA DVD Write Optical Drive
Graphics Card
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 550 Ti 970MHz 1GB PCI-Express HDMI Windforce 2X
Harddrive
Seagate 1TB Barracuda SATA 6Gb/s 64MB 7200RPM Hard Drive
I would really appreciate feedback on this current build list, it's seems so easy to get deeper and deeper into think about components. I am particularly interested at this stage in compatibility of components, value for money, and perhaps any other cost effective options you may have to suggest, especially as I am a little over budget. I also have a slight feeling that AMD FX 8120, is a good cost effective option at the moment, but I am sure I will not disappointed with the i5 ivy bridge, dispite the additional cost.
I would also appreciate input on how OverclockersUK can help me save money on my build, any complete and suggested OverclockersUK build lists from other users would be much appreciated. Thanks.
g.
