I must say that seems almost exactly the case with most builds. A majority of my money is being spent on the way I want it to look. Its like the difference between a branded supercar and an unbranded car with the same parts and a lower quality shell. I don't know, I might be talking ******** \o/
Socket 1155 or 2011?
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I must say that seems almost exactly the case with most builds. A majority of my money is being spent on the way I want it to look. Its like the difference between a branded supercar and an unbranded car with the same parts and a lower quality shell. I don't know, I might be talking ******** \o/
Would you notice the difference though? Perception is key. There's not much sense wasting money on things you can't perceive.
I doubt you could.
I understand the aesthetics/future proof side of things but it's important not to get carried away as you can end up just throwing money down the drain.
I know exactly what you mean, I don't want to throw money away if I can help it. A few of those choices are purely for aesthetic reasons. I want it to look 'cool' but I also want it to be a solid machine for a lengthy period. As for wasting money on a PCI-E SSD, I think it would be wasted on me, Especially at the price. You could buy two lovely SSD's and run them in RAID and still save money but with a hell of a speed boost. Anyway, I like to keep the unimportant stuff seperate on HDD's.
I think what you said is important. Its about whether I personally notice the difference. I must say the difference from HDD to SSD was exceptional but going from a SATA SSD to a PCI-E SSD won't benefit me much at all. I will leave that option out for the forceable future, I looked into them before but was seriously put off by the price.
Another point I wanted to get clarified was the overclocking potential but I might need to throw that into a different section of the forum.
(Also, I wanted to just say a great big ****ing well done to the OC team and their Forum admins/posters because I can see this forum being a great place, expecially for someone like me who can't exactly talk tech to a majority of the people I "know")
Pretty fancy build. 
In the long run are you thinking of keeping the existing components? I mean for example in 2/3 years when your PC starts to become a little slow are you going to be keeping your existing RAM + MB and just changing your CPU? If so then LGA2011 is the way to go. Personally, I tend to upgrade all those things at the same time so socket future proofing never comes into it for me.
I wouldn't imagine there are going to be any massive leaps in performance with Haswell. If you read what Intel are saying it sounds more like greater energy efficiency than any great leaps in performance, a la Sandybridge to Ivybridge.
In the long run are you thinking of keeping the existing components? I mean for example in 2/3 years when your PC starts to become a little slow are you going to be keeping your existing RAM + MB and just changing your CPU? If so then LGA2011 is the way to go. Personally, I tend to upgrade all those things at the same time so socket future proofing never comes into it for me.
I wouldn't imagine there are going to be any massive leaps in performance with Haswell. If you read what Intel are saying it sounds more like greater energy efficiency than any great leaps in performance, a la Sandybridge to Ivybridge.
The 3930k will hold its own for some time to come imo, its a very powerful chip. The q9550s are only just starting to show their age, if at all.
They're very overclockable DrPierson, some reaching 4.6GHz on a decent cooler. Since you're planning to watercool, I don't think overclocking will be an issue at all. 3930k @ 4.6GHz must be incredibly fast, ultimate folding machine!
I'll be watching your build mate - it's going to be a monster!
They're very overclockable DrPierson, some reaching 4.6GHz on a decent cooler. Since you're planning to watercool, I don't think overclocking will be an issue at all. 3930k @ 4.6GHz must be incredibly fast, ultimate folding machine!
I'll be watching your build mate - it's going to be a monster!
I think I will be sticking to the 2011 socket. The 3820 will do me fine and I hear you can hit 4.5Ghz without a problem so on a nice motherboard and a decent cooling loop I should hit the highest speeds easy. I would most likely run it stock until I notice it lagging behind everyone elses machines!
Pretty fancy build.
In the long run are you thinking of keeping the existing components? I mean for example in 2/3 years when your PC starts to become a little slow are you going to be keeping your existing RAM + MB and just changing your CPU? If so then LGA2011 is the way to go. Personally, I tend to upgrade all those things at the same time so socket future proofing never comes into it for me.
I wouldn't imagine there are going to be any massive leaps in performance with Haswell. If you read what Intel are saying it sounds more like greater energy efficiency than any great leaps in performance, a la Sandybridge to Ivybridge.
In the long run the only thing I will be doing is adding another 16GB ram to fortify the 8dimms and keep everything running fluid I might need a new generation SSD in a year or two but 2011 seems like the upgradable workhorse platform for now. If I buy this machine I don't think I will be dissapointed at all, Even in a few years it should be running just as fast if not faster then when I bought it! Apart from being a little broke for a while I really want to build this thing, its one of the things i've been looking forward too for years!
Buying the socket/cpu when you feel the time is right is a great option too, and its also a way of avoiding buying those costly upgrades. I'm most likely going to keep squeezing the CPU/GPU so I don't feel slow as hell when something amazing comes out, as is always the case with building.
As for energy efficiency I don't have a problem with how much power a CPU uses. My Ideal architecture would be a massive cube of CPU =) Keep in mind that there is current research into 'cube' CPU's, they have just hit a wall on heat for the time being.
Don't get your hopes up, She is going to be a pretty lady but I don't think I can shuffle or comprimise in order to get that monster of a 3930, the 3830 will have to do, You can clock that bitch to a VERY usable speed
Oh she'll be blistering fast too dude!
Building an ultimate gaming machine has been a dream for many years for me too, it's only this year I've been able to (slightly... not really tbh) afford it, so I took the plunge and I love it. Be adding my second Gigabyte windforce soon
Building an ultimate gaming machine has been a dream for many years for me too, it's only this year I've been able to (slightly... not really tbh) afford it, so I took the plunge and I love it. Be adding my second Gigabyte windforce soon