Hello Tom's Community!
I'm a student computer programmer, and would like a nice desktop to do my schoolwork as well as maybe watch a few movies, play some games, video editing, etc.
I want the following:
1. Lot's of RAM (will be using large programs such as Matlab, apache server, etc. )
2. Dual monitor setup
3. SSD and HDD
I'm thinking the following parts:
SUS P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
Intel Core i7-3770K Ivy Bridge 3.5GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4000 BX80637I73770K
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
CORSAIR Vengeance Pro 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 Desktop Memory Model CMY16GX3M2A1866C9R (Red)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
SAMSUNG 840 EVO MZ-7TE120BW 2.5" 120GB SATA III TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
Seagate Pipeline HD ST2000VM003 2 TB 3.5" SATA 3Gb/s Internal Hard Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
Ok so what I need help with is:
1. The power supply unit
2. Anything having to do with RAID/how to configure my SDD and HDD
3. Do I need a graphics card unit?
4. Installing Linux from a USB
5. Anything else you can think of.
BTW, I looked here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/262320-31-1500-budget... but it seems a bit outdated.
UPDATE:
I've purchased the following parts:
CORSAIR CX600M 600W High Performance Modular Power Supply
Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor
Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD3H ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
Kingston HyperX Blu 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
Seagate 600 Series 240GB 2.5" Solid State Disk (I still haven't finalized this, actually)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card
Lite-On 24x CD/DVD Burner
Penguin Wireless N PCIe Card for GNU / Linux v4 (TPE-N300PCIE4) - Windows Compatible
Penguin USB Bluetooth Micro Adapter for GNU / Linux v2 - Also Windows compatible
You can give me tips on SSD to buy, but I'm pretty set on the other parts. I'm having some confusion now about dual-booting. I'm looking to dual boot Windows 7 and the latest version of Ubuntu. I would install Windows first and then download Ubuntu and use 30gb of space for the installation of Ubuntu. So if I have 30gb space for Ubuntu, does that mean I have 210gb of space for Windows? And all the files I create on Ubuntu, will they be limited to 30gb combined space? If I decide to buy an HDD for storage, could I store files and applications from both OSes in the HDD? Or will I have to partition that disk as well??
Thanks in advance.