Whats he building in there? (2k round up)

Weaver · 13 May 2011 at 13:01

Ok folks here’s the skinny.

I’ve been putting this off waiting for 2nd gen newer products but it’s time I built myself a new box. I have a 2k budget will stretch a bit. What I need? I’m looking for a quiet but powerful preferably water cooled CPU within a sound proofed case since the box will be used primarily in my home studio as a music/post production work station. I don’t require a keyboard/mouse or monitor (Dual monitor set up at the moment). I would prefer an SSD boot OS drive up to at least 120Gb. I need firewire 400 support for my outboard sound device/controller mixer and a couple of HDD storage devices preferably 1 or 2 Tb capacity at 7200 as I’ll be working with pro tools and need the quicker drives in addition to at least 8Gb of RAM. I’ll need a decent Gfx card to run two Iiyama ProLite B2712HDS 27" monitors possibly expanding to 3 at a later date depending on the Gfx card selections.

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J-FRO · 13 May 2011 at 13:08

do you want to go full on watercooled system or do you want one of the all-in-one type CPU water coolers like a Corsair H70?

Weaver · 13 May 2011 at 13:18

J-FRO said:
do you want to go full on watercooled system or do you want one of the all-in-one type CPU water coolers like a Corsair H70?

As far as full water cooled systems are concerned I’m open to suggestion however I’m a complete novice. In the past I’ve tended to get bogged down when considering pumps probably from over thinking the GPM flow. The H70 is not out of the question though.

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stulid · 13 May 2011 at 13:20

That should be almost silent if you can find a Seasonix X series PSU.

J-FRO · 13 May 2011 at 13:23

And do you need a copy of windows?

EDIT: Whack one of these onto stulids build

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CC-012-SR

SeraphX · 13 May 2011 at 13:28

woo 2 grand, nice machine money

stulid · 13 May 2011 at 13:29

^
LOL the retail CPU is cheaper.

SeraphX · 13 May 2011 at 13:30

whats a fiver when your spending 2 grand

Weaver · 13 May 2011 at 13:31

J-FRO said:
And do you need a copy of windows?

EDIT: Whack one of these onto stulids build

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CC-012-SR

Yeah I need an OS. I’m going with a simple Win7 home 64 but its not listed as part of the built as I consider the software as over and above.

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stulid · 13 May 2011 at 13:32

Seraph said:
whats a fiver when your spending 2 grand

i thought the OP said a couple of 2TB drives?

And maybe the option for a third monitor?

SeraphX · 13 May 2011 at 13:33

stulid said:
i thought the OP said a couple of 2TB drives?

And maybe the option for a third monitor?

lol oh alright, definitely need to brush up on my SB speccing lists lol and he could ditch the 800D for a 700 the difference would buy another 2Tb HDD

stulid · 13 May 2011 at 13:36

• With O/S
• 16GB RAM
• 4TB storage

• The option of fitting a third monitor, with Nvidia you need two cards, you can use one ATI card if it has a Display port output too and one of your monitors has a Displayport input, but that model monitor does not, unless the next monitor you add is a different one with Display port, then you can use just a single ATI card.
• Find a fanless Seasonic X series PSU, the case has sound deadening foam.

If you use a third monitor without a Displayport input, you can just use one card like this - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-258-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1711

Using a Displayport adapter.

http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?leg=&psn=000107&pid=357

Weaver · 13 May 2011 at 13:56

Seraph said:
whats a fiver when your spending 2 grand

LoL It's at least half a bottle of coolant.

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SeraphX · 13 May 2011 at 14:31

Weaver said:
LoL It's at least half a bottle of coolant.

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coolant? dont waste your money on feser or premixed crap, distilled water is around 5Litres for 3 quid from most halfords, does a fine job and wont gunk up waterblocks and tubing etc etc

holbay · 2 Jun 2011 at 15:16

Seraph said:
whats a fiver when your spending 2 grand

lol A fiver is a 1/2 Litre tub of Equis strawberry ice cream with change,nice when playing Guild Wars..

Rob_J · 2 Jun 2011 at 17:09

Seraph said:
whats a fiver when your spending 2 grand

A difference of a 3 year warranty for the retail against a 1 year warranty for the OEM, plus a pint or two in his local

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Weaver · 6 Jun 2011 at 16:20

Heres the parts I've finally settled on and it sits nicely within the original budget what do you think?

Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £227.99 (£189.99)

Corsair Obsidian 800D Full Tower Case - Black £224.99 (£187.49)

Asus ATI Radeon HD 6950 DirectCU II 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £215.99 (£179.99)

Corsair Force Series 3 120GB SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (CSSD-F120GB3-BK) £194.99 (£162.49)

Corsair Professional Series Gold AX850 High Performance 850W Modular Power Supply (CMPSU-850AXUK) £157.99 (£131.66)

Asus P8P67 PRO Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £150.38 (£125.32)

Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1600C8) £99.98 (£83.32) x2

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade DVD - 32/64bit Retail (GFC-00026) £89.99 (£74.99)

Corsair Hydro H70 High-Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM3) £79.99 (£66.66)

Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD1002FAEX) £73.99 (£61.66) x2

Samsung SH-B123L/RSBP 12x BluRay ROM DVDRW DL & RAM Lightscribe SATA-II Optical Drive - Black (Retail) £54.98 (£45.82)

Akasa AK-FN058 Apache Black Super Silent 120mm Fan - 4 Pin PWM £14.99 (£12.49) x4

Sub Total : £1,504.33
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
Shipping : £16.85
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £304.24
Total : £1,825.42

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stulid · 6 Jun 2011 at 16:27

The Harddrives are too expensive when Samsung F3's or Seagate Barracuda 7200.11/12 are as fast.

Weaver · 6 Jun 2011 at 16:51

stulid said:
The Harddrives are too expensive when Samsung F3's or Seagate Barracuda 7200.11/12 are as fast.

I did consider the Samsung's as I've got 2 in this box at the mo and they are excellent for the money. I would never go near seagate again though too many of their drives have failed on me. I decided to go with the SATA III's though simply because of the 64mb buffer as 1 of them will hold BFD2 drum sampler and all it's sample kits. However I had already placed the order when I posted.

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