New PC with very specific needs

jonjay

jonjay

jonjay

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Hi,

Been a member on here for a very long time and used to be quite active in the old overclocking game many many years ago but since then I havent been uptodate with technology as I should be. To busy with my career :(

I want to build myself a new rig. I havent got a specific budget however I have very specific requirements.

Requirements:
-Lots of CPU power
-Lots of hard disk space (although think a seperate NAS might be better). Has to be SSD for main OS.
-OS has to be 64-bit
-Lots of memory as I am going to be running couple of virtual servers for testing purposes using Hyper-V or VMware. 12GB?
-Graphics card to support two monitors at 1900x1200 res.
-2x 24" Monitors or maybe 1 big monitor?
-Gigabit NIC and wireless N for when I am not running servers etc..

Would be nice:
- Can handle the latest games but within a reasonable budget. Maybe two mid range cards SLI'ed?
- Case has to be quiet
- Room for future expansion I.E upgrade path for CPU / Memory.

I havent done that much reading yet and realise big ask to do work for me (will do some this weekend) but if you guys can point me in right direction that would be great.

Thanks for your time!

:)
 
Dell UltraSharp U2711 27" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Midnight Grey £699.00
(£582.50) £699.00
(£582.50)
Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail with FREE Shogun 2 Game £257.99
(£214.99) £257.99
(£214.99)
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB 2.5" SATA-3 Solid State Hard Drive (VTX3-25SAT3-120G) £219.98
(£183.32) £219.98
(£183.32)
MSI ATI Radeon HD 6950 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £209.99
(£174.99) £209.99
(£174.99)
MSI P67A-GD55 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £134.99
(£112.49) £134.99
(£112.49)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium - Retail (Full Version)(GFC-00025) £124.99
(£104.16) £124.99
(£104.16)
Antec TruePower New Modular 750W Power Supply - With FREE 3D Mark 2011 Advance £87.98
(£73.32) £87.98
(£73.32)
2x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £79.99
(£66.66) £159.98
(£133.32)
Coolermaster CM-690 II Advanced Dominator Case - Black £69.98
(£58.32) £69.98
(£58.32)
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM (ST2000DL003) £60.98
(£50.82) £60.98
(£50.82)
Akasa AK-CC4006SP01 Nero V2 CPU Cooler (Socket 775/1155/1156/1366/AM2/AM2+/AM3) £32.99
(£27.49) £32.99
(£27.49)
Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
(£11.66) £13.99
(£11.66)

Sub Total : £1,727.38
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £22.20
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £349.92
Total : £2,099.50

Doesn't have an upgrade path as such (well you could install 32GB RAM once 8GB sticks become available), however the 2600k is impressively fast and the only significant improvements over that would be the 6 core 1366 chips or xeons (very expensive).

Just to add, there's not really much choice in 24" 1920 x 1200 monitors these days, most of them are 1080p, the only one available on OCuk is the Dell which costs £470.
 
Thanks for taking the time do do this.

You set me on the right track.

Pretty much decided to go for a Synology DS211 2 Bay NAS - just need to decide which hard drives to go for.

This means I wont need to spend on additional hard disks for the actual computer itself which leaves more money for SSD.

One quick questions. How does the new 6 core fair against the i7? Would I be better of going for a 6 core as I will be running VM servers thus more cores available for these? Or is the i7 that much faster to cope with everything?
 
I think this will be my final configuration:

- 2x 1TB Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black, SATA 6Gb/s, 7200rpm, 64MB Cache, 8 ms

- 64GB Crucial RealSSD C300, MLC-Flash, SATA3 6Gbps, 2.5" SSD, Read 355MB/s, Write 70MB/s

- Coolermaster HAF X, Black, Full Gaming Tower Case inc Side Window/USB3, w/o PSU

- Corsair Hydro Series H70 High-performance CPU Cooler, LGA775/1155/1156/1366, AM2/AM3+

- 800W Coolermaster Silent Pro Gold, Modular, 80 PLUS Gold, 90% Eff', SLI/CrossFire, EPS12V, 120mm Fan

- 8GB (2x4GB) Corsair Vengeance DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600), Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 8-8-8-24, XMP, 1.50V

- Intel Core i7 2600, 1155, Sandy Bridge, Quad Core, 3.4 GHz, GPU 850Mhz, 8MB Cache, 95W, Retail

- 2GB XFX HD 6950, PCI-E 2.1 (x16), 5000MHz GDDR5, GPU 800MHz, 1408Cores, DL DVI-I/ DVI/ HDMI/ 2x mDP

- MSI P67A-GD65 (B3), Intel P67, S 1155, PCI-E 2.0 (x16), DDR3 1600/2133, SATA 6Gb/s, RAID, ATX

Opinions welcome :)


I chose to go with 8GB only as going with 16GB may affect overclocking? Has anyone had any experience with this?
 
Right :)

Ended up with this specification which arrive to my house on Saturday.

- CPU: Intel Core i7 2600K 3.40GHz
- COOLER: Corsair Hydro H70 High-Performance CPU WaterCooler
- Motherboard: Asus P8P67-M PRO Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard ** B3 REVISION **
- RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel
- Case: Coolermaster 690-II Advanced
- Graphics: MSI ATI 6950 2GB Crossfire
- Main OS HDD: Crucial 64GB C300
- Addition HDD: 2x Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - RAID 1
- PSU: Corsair TX 850w
- DVD: OC-UK DVD-RW.
- OS: Windows 7 64bit
- Soundcard: Existing soundcard Creative X-Fi

All been built and working. Managed overclock of 4.6Ghz and successful flashed the MSI to a 6970. Quite happy!
 
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