I need the advice and input from the experts here.
I am building my 1st system and wondered how the following specs would work and what you would change, eliminate or add. I will use the pc for general work and hobby purposes. Performance is important to me but I am NOT a game player. I will use the system for Microsoft Office, Abode Illustrator CS6, Google Sketchup, web design and misc. utilities and productivity apps. I will not use any program heavily. I work from home and my work is spread out using various applications but none of them extensively.
I am a heavy internet browser/user with many tabs open.
I want a system which is slightly overkill for my needs. I need and want many internal USB 3.0 as well as plenty of internal SATA 3 ports.
Need cloning software to take current OS and applications from old system to the new build.
I am an American currently living in Spain and will purchase all components from Amazon.
I had thought about: (Not interested in any RAID or SLI setups)
Caching my SSD to a ram drive (what software and size would you recommend?)
Caching my 2 HD’s to a smaller SSD
Experimenting with overclocking
Experimenting with FancyCache or similar
Low-profile memory
Budget of approx. $2200.00
Option #1: LGA2011-based
Intel i7-3820k cpu (Archon SB-E X2 cpu fan)
Asus P9X79 Deluxe motherboard (I like the Bluetooth and Wireless features)
64MB ram or 32 MB ram (Kingston HyperX Genesis C9 1600 mhz)
Crucial M4 512GB SSD
Crucial M4 128GB SSD for caching both HD’s (large enough for both hard drives?)
Western Digital 1TB VelociRaptor 10,000 rpm
Seagate Barracuda 3 TB HDD SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache ST3000DM001
ASUS 24x CD/DVD Internal Drive
EVGA 3GB DDR5 GeForce GTX 660 video card
Sharkoon SATA 3 QP Internal docking station 3.5 & 2.5 drives
CoolerMaster Storm Trooper case
Corsair AX860i 80 Plus Platinum power supply
Option #2: Socket 1155
Intel i5-3570k cpu (Archon SB-E X2 cpu fan)
ASUS P8Z77-V-Deluxe motherboard (I like the Bluetooth and Wireless features)
32MB ram (Kingston HyperX Genesis C9 1600 mhz)
Crucial M4 512GB SSD
Crucial M4 128GB SSD for caching both HD’s (large enough for both hard drives?)
Western Digital 1TB VelociRaptor 10,000 rpm
Seagate Barracuda 3 TB HDD SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache ST3000DM001
ASUS 24x CD/DVD Internal Drive
EVGA 3GB DDR5 GeForce GTX 660 video card
Sharkoon SATA 3 QP Internal docking station 3.5 & 2.5 drives
CoolerMaster Storm Trooper case
Corsair AX860i 80 Plus Platinum power supply
Also need advice on low-cost but quality desktop speakers for on-board sound. I already have all applications and OS (Windows 7 64-bit) which I will clone from current pc. I will utilize my current 21 and 24 inch flat screen monitors.
Clarification...I thought in having a large SSD to hold my OS and all applications. I want opinion and thoughts in caching my large primary SSD to ram since I will have either 32 GB or 64 GB of system memory depending on which processor and motherboard I finally select. I will have 2 mechanical hd's and wanted to cache them to a 128GB SSD which will be separate from the large primary os SSD.
I am building my 1st system and wondered how the following specs would work and what you would change, eliminate or add. I will use the pc for general work and hobby purposes. Performance is important to me but I am NOT a game player. I will use the system for Microsoft Office, Abode Illustrator CS6, Google Sketchup, web design and misc. utilities and productivity apps. I will not use any program heavily. I work from home and my work is spread out using various applications but none of them extensively.
I am a heavy internet browser/user with many tabs open.
I want a system which is slightly overkill for my needs. I need and want many internal USB 3.0 as well as plenty of internal SATA 3 ports.
Need cloning software to take current OS and applications from old system to the new build.
I am an American currently living in Spain and will purchase all components from Amazon.
I had thought about: (Not interested in any RAID or SLI setups)
Caching my SSD to a ram drive (what software and size would you recommend?)
Caching my 2 HD’s to a smaller SSD
Experimenting with overclocking
Experimenting with FancyCache or similar
Low-profile memory
Budget of approx. $2200.00
Option #1: LGA2011-based
Intel i7-3820k cpu (Archon SB-E X2 cpu fan)
Asus P9X79 Deluxe motherboard (I like the Bluetooth and Wireless features)
64MB ram or 32 MB ram (Kingston HyperX Genesis C9 1600 mhz)
Crucial M4 512GB SSD
Crucial M4 128GB SSD for caching both HD’s (large enough for both hard drives?)
Western Digital 1TB VelociRaptor 10,000 rpm
Seagate Barracuda 3 TB HDD SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache ST3000DM001
ASUS 24x CD/DVD Internal Drive
EVGA 3GB DDR5 GeForce GTX 660 video card
Sharkoon SATA 3 QP Internal docking station 3.5 & 2.5 drives
CoolerMaster Storm Trooper case
Corsair AX860i 80 Plus Platinum power supply
Option #2: Socket 1155
Intel i5-3570k cpu (Archon SB-E X2 cpu fan)
ASUS P8Z77-V-Deluxe motherboard (I like the Bluetooth and Wireless features)
32MB ram (Kingston HyperX Genesis C9 1600 mhz)
Crucial M4 512GB SSD
Crucial M4 128GB SSD for caching both HD’s (large enough for both hard drives?)
Western Digital 1TB VelociRaptor 10,000 rpm
Seagate Barracuda 3 TB HDD SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache ST3000DM001
ASUS 24x CD/DVD Internal Drive
EVGA 3GB DDR5 GeForce GTX 660 video card
Sharkoon SATA 3 QP Internal docking station 3.5 & 2.5 drives
CoolerMaster Storm Trooper case
Corsair AX860i 80 Plus Platinum power supply
Also need advice on low-cost but quality desktop speakers for on-board sound. I already have all applications and OS (Windows 7 64-bit) which I will clone from current pc. I will utilize my current 21 and 24 inch flat screen monitors.
Clarification...I thought in having a large SSD to hold my OS and all applications. I want opinion and thoughts in caching my large primary SSD to ram since I will have either 32 GB or 64 GB of system memory depending on which processor and motherboard I finally select. I will have 2 mechanical hd's and wanted to cache them to a 128GB SSD which will be separate from the large primary os SSD.