Had a few scrypt mining rigs running since last year, they've paid themselves off and with the profit decline wanted to build a kick ass workstation with some of their parts, and sell of the remaining stuff. I'm setting up a study in a spare room with a nice 1440p 27" dell.
Already have 4x HIS R9 280x GPUs, along with a smattering of Sapphire Dual-X and Toxics from the mining rigs. The HIS impressed me the most temp and noise wise. The Sapphire Dual-X sucks ass compared to it, and the Toxic is better than all of them but REALLY long and seems louder than the HIS.
I looked at a bunch of lga 1150 boards and am just bummed that PLX is needed to get to tri or quad GPUs. It seems like having integrated video that I'll never use is a bad trade for more pci-e lanes, so I started looking at lga 2011. After a few days of checking reviews and prices, I was sold on 2011 since the price difference between 1150 w/ plx and 2011 was really minor.
So here's my plan:
Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4 LGA 2011 board - This guy support 4x PCIe 3.0 at 8x/8x/8x/8x, and has quad channel memory. The quad channel stuff seems like a novelty, but also kind of badass. They made up for the lack of USB3 and SATA 6 in X79 too.
i7-4820k - Looks like its basically the same as 4770? The price bump from 4 to 6 cores was too much for me, didn't seem worth it.
Ripjaws X 16GB 2133 CAS 9 Quad channel kit - I've got lots of ram sitting around, but nothing at 2133.
Corsair carbide 540 - I really wanted to go for a full liquid setup, but for right now don't see much need to so wanted an airy case that could handle liquid in the future. I'm not super concerned about noise, if its too loud will be putting the case in the basement and running the wires up to the study right above.
Seasonic 1050 PSU - Already have this from mining, works great and is efficient
4x HIS R9 280x - Already have these from mining, they seem to have a good cooler under load
Samsung 840 256GB SSD - Have some small SSDs form the mining rigs, but want something that can handle the OS and a few games. Figure I'll put Win 8.1 on this, and get a 2nd drive for Linux since I only use Win for gaming.
Hows this all look? Seems like its gonna be a great setup for 1440p and beyond to me, maybe even 4k if I can fit one in the study too. If I didn't already have some of the gear I'd probably do a better single GPU or dual at most, but what the hell I've got this stuff and its paid itself off. Figure if its still profitable I'll have the workstation mine when I'm not using it too.
Is LGA 2011 the right choice here?
End of story - The real reason I want any of this is Star Citizen, I'm SO EXCITED now but know it wont have much for me anytime soon. Figured if I'm gonna sell off the mining equipment and build a workstation, should just overkill it enough that when Star Citizen modules drop I can't just play them.
Already have 4x HIS R9 280x GPUs, along with a smattering of Sapphire Dual-X and Toxics from the mining rigs. The HIS impressed me the most temp and noise wise. The Sapphire Dual-X sucks ass compared to it, and the Toxic is better than all of them but REALLY long and seems louder than the HIS.
I looked at a bunch of lga 1150 boards and am just bummed that PLX is needed to get to tri or quad GPUs. It seems like having integrated video that I'll never use is a bad trade for more pci-e lanes, so I started looking at lga 2011. After a few days of checking reviews and prices, I was sold on 2011 since the price difference between 1150 w/ plx and 2011 was really minor.
So here's my plan:
Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4 LGA 2011 board - This guy support 4x PCIe 3.0 at 8x/8x/8x/8x, and has quad channel memory. The quad channel stuff seems like a novelty, but also kind of badass. They made up for the lack of USB3 and SATA 6 in X79 too.
i7-4820k - Looks like its basically the same as 4770? The price bump from 4 to 6 cores was too much for me, didn't seem worth it.
Ripjaws X 16GB 2133 CAS 9 Quad channel kit - I've got lots of ram sitting around, but nothing at 2133.
Corsair carbide 540 - I really wanted to go for a full liquid setup, but for right now don't see much need to so wanted an airy case that could handle liquid in the future. I'm not super concerned about noise, if its too loud will be putting the case in the basement and running the wires up to the study right above.
Seasonic 1050 PSU - Already have this from mining, works great and is efficient
4x HIS R9 280x - Already have these from mining, they seem to have a good cooler under load
Samsung 840 256GB SSD - Have some small SSDs form the mining rigs, but want something that can handle the OS and a few games. Figure I'll put Win 8.1 on this, and get a 2nd drive for Linux since I only use Win for gaming.
Hows this all look? Seems like its gonna be a great setup for 1440p and beyond to me, maybe even 4k if I can fit one in the study too. If I didn't already have some of the gear I'd probably do a better single GPU or dual at most, but what the hell I've got this stuff and its paid itself off. Figure if its still profitable I'll have the workstation mine when I'm not using it too.
Is LGA 2011 the right choice here?
End of story - The real reason I want any of this is Star Citizen, I'm SO EXCITED now but know it wont have much for me anytime soon. Figured if I'm gonna sell off the mining equipment and build a workstation, should just overkill it enough that when Star Citizen modules drop I can't just play them.
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