Spec me a £2,000 dev workstation

1 x Intel Core i7-3970X 3.50GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail £799.99
1 x OCZ RevoDrive HYBRID 1TB PCI-E SSD Hard Drive - (RVDHY-FH-1T) HDD £304.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance RED 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit (CMZ32GX3M4X1866C10R) £179.99
1 x ASRock X79 Extreme4 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £167.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-Bit - OEM (FQC-04649) £119.99
1 x Intel 330 Series 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £99.98
1 x Intel Liquid Cooling Solution CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011) £73.98
1 x Sapphire HD 6570 2048MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £56.99
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £39.95
1 x Antec One Gaming Case - Black £36.98
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £1,912.82 (includes shipping : £12.50).



if more space is needed but still need a faster than sdd drive and fastest cpu out, here's a spec for that, or have both and go over budget and have the best of each

1 x Intel Core i7-3970X 3.50GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail £799.99
1 x OCZ RevoDrive3 X2 480GB PCI-E SSD - (RVD3X2-FHPX4-480G) £599.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance RED 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit (CMZ32GX3M4X1866C10R) £179.99
1 x ASRock X79 Extreme4 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £167.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-Bit - OEM (FQC-04649) £119.99
1 x Intel 330 Series 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £99.98
1 x Intel Liquid Cooling Solution CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011) £73.98
1 x Sapphire HD 6570 2048MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £56.99
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £39.95
1 x Antec One Gaming Case - Black £36.98
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £2,207.82 (includes shipping : £12.50).



apart from a xeon cpu, there's no faster chip out as yet and with the fastest of the revo you have the best of both worlds but over budget
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-3930K 3.20GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail £455.99
1 x Gigabyte X79-UD3 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £179.99
1 x Silverstone Fortress FT02 USB3.0 Case - Silver (SST-FT02S USB 3.0) £169.99
1 x PNY Nvidia Quadro 410 Graphics Card - 512MB - GDDR3 SDRAM £124.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-Bit - OEM (FQC-04649) £119.99
1 x Seasonic X-Series 650w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £114.98
1 x Samsung 128GB SSD 840 PRO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7PD128BW) £109.99
4 x Western Digital RE4 1TB SATA-II 64MB Cache - OEM (WD1003FBYX) HDD £96.98 (£387.92)
2 x Kingston HyperX Predator 16GB (2x8GB) PC3-17066C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit (KHX21C11T2K2/16X) £89.99 (£179.98)
1 x Intel Liquid Cooling Solution CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011) £73.98
Total : £1,938.04 (includes shipping : £16.85).



I have specced the OP a workstation build :cool:

OP you don't say how your drives / data are configured. I have specified 4 x Western Digital RE4 drives, along with a Samsung 840 Pro. You run the 4 RE drives in Raid 10 (stripped and mirrored). You then use the Samsung 840 for Intel Response Technology with write caching enabled to speed disk access. This gives 2GB of mirrored fast storage.

For graphics I have specified a Quadro card, the benefit of running Quadro cards (over GeForce) is Quadro driver releases are not focused on gaming. Other benefit with the Quadro card is it runs Nvidia NView, also if you fit another card you can run Mosaic over 4 screens.

Case is soundproofed, PSU is also very silent :)
 
Thanks chaps. The RevoDrive 3 looks perfect. Does the BIOS detect it as a regular drive then? 240GB is all the space I need.

Good thought Jason, however the Quadro drivers have caused my clients all sorts of grief - I am boycotting them!
 
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