Potential System Build for Programming

dhakehurst

dhakehurst

dhakehurst

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Hi,

Am putting together a system for doing multiple tasks including some heavy duty programing with a variety of IDE's and languages. (They tend to be quite memory hungry).

Wondered if anyone had any thoughts on this spec,
if it should all work together ok, or if I have missed anything.

Motherboard Asus P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3
Processor Intel Core i7-2700K
RAM Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600MHz
Case Antec Sonata Elite Case
PSU OCZ Technology PSU, ModXStream Pro, 700W – UK
BD-ROM Samsung 12x BD-ROM/DVDRW Lightscribe SATA
Hard Drive Hitachi 1TB Deskstar 7K100.D 3.5" 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 32MB
Monitor Hazro HZ27WC 8-Bit 27" LED Widescreen Professional Monitor – Black
graphics ATI Radeon HD 5450 SILENT 512MB GDDR3 PCI-Express


I am quite tempted to get two HDs and RAID them, and possibly use a small SSD with the Smart Response Technology on the mother board...but am not sure I can do both, does anyone know?

cheers
 
no to the psu, if you want ocz go for the zs series not modxstream. you wan antec, corsair, seasonic(or rebadged such as xfx), enermax etc.

ram you'll be wanting 16gb by the sounds of it, oh and the fins on the ram will interfer with the cooler if you plan on getting a 3rd party air cooler(you'll be wanting a cooler to oc, and if you're not ocing wth are you getting a 2700k and a z68 mobo? save the money and get 2600 + h67 mobo).

blue-ray make sure its retail.
 
In my opinion, 8GB of RAM should be sufficient enough, although I'd opt for 8GB of Corsair XMS3 because it doesn't have them ugly fins that the vengeance RAM does. Is a blu-ray drive really needed? Everything else looks okay to me. I would answer your question about the SSD if I actually knew the answer.
 
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Personally wouldn't touch an XFX PSU with a bargepole even if they are rebadged seasonic units.

OCZ are ok generally tho I'd avoid mod/stealthxstreme.

I can't imagine needing more than 8gig RAM, I do some fairly heavy duty programming along with having supporting software such as image editing, etc. open and never really struggled even on 4gig.

The monitor is going to be the big one IMO, you really want one thats going to work in both dot pitch, realestate/physical dimensions, backlight, glare, etc. etc.
 
hmm, thanks for those thoughts, especially regarding the PSU.

I picked the Z68 based on [http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2193659]
The ASUS H67 doesn't offer bluetooth or usb 3 as far as I can tell, both of which could be useful.

regarding Blue-ray...no I don't need it..I'd just like it :-), but perhaps an unnecessary expense.

ram, though I prob won't notice much difference, the Vengeance is CL8 rather than CL9, ...maybe an even more unnecessary expense

The monitor is important, hence my pick of the Hazro which gets good reviews, but is lots cheaper that its equivalents.

any one know about the RAID/SSD/SRT question?
 
unless theres some function that that graphics card does that the intel onboard graphics doesnt then dont bother with it. a while back i asked and it performs about the same as the intel onboard
 
Reaper 392 said:
unless theres some function that that graphics card does that the intel onboard graphics doesnt then dont bother with it. a while back i asked and it performs about the same as the intel onboard
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The function on the graphics card I need is DL-DVI or I can't make use of the high resolution of the monitor.
 
olivier renault said:
I like a two display setup for development. You can get some nice stuff for £200 nowadays.
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Although three is obviously better. :)

For testing I used to need to have several physical machines running. Nowadays they’re all virtual, but they do need screen space to run on if you want to avoid constant context switching.

I’ve found that 1920x1200 on a 24” is big enough for the programming IDE.
 
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