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Building a new computer in the summer and need answers to many questions.

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May 3, 2014 7:27:04 AM

Hello forum, I am building a new computer in the summer as I have sold my old computer and my budget is about $4000. The parts I am sure about is CPU (Intel-i7 4930K(unless there is a octo-core haswell-e coming soon that is around $500)), the CPU cooler (h100i), the Storage (Samsung 256gb SSD and Seagate 3tb HDD and (either 2 500gb 840 Evo or 1 1tb Evo)), The GPU (Nvidia GTX 780ti (not sure which cooler)), and the RAM (Corsair Dominator Platinum 4x8 2133MHz (eventually looking to get to 64gb as I want a 32gb Ramdisk.). The components I am not sure about is the Case and Motherboard. For the Case I am most likely using the Corsair 600t White edition as I just like it, a lot. For the Motherboard I am looking at the Rampage IV Black Edition. As you can probably see I am choosing a lot of parts on just look because the looks are just important to me as the performance.So to sum this up I will just write my questions down below.
1. If I go for Haswell-E its gonna come on a new chipset and socket but there is gonna be absolutely no support in the beginning 6 months or so. My question is should I just go with aging x79 or the brand new x99?
2. For the Power supply, ive gotten many people to say that the ax1200i is a ripoff and I don't need to spend that much money. They recommend that I use the EVGA Supernova P2 1000, but I am hesitant because it's just not as well known as the 1200i. Ive also been looking at many builds and I see that none of them use anything else except Corsair ax series.
3. For the storage I am having a 3tb (maybe 4) backup drive. It is just gonna be there to back my main 1tb ssds up. For the boot drive im going for the 840 pro 256gb because its one of the fastest ssds out there. I will be downloading all my programs onto that drive. For my main hard drive for games and everything else I want 1tb of SSD storage. My question is: Is it better to go wth 2 500gb drives in raid 0 for extra speed, or just 1 1tb drive. I am not worried about danger of loosing my data on the SSD as I will have it backed up to the 3tb main drive every hour or so.
4. Does the Rampage IV Black have an integrated Raid controller?
5. Should I get corsair link, I mean it looks cool as balls.
6. Which extended mousepad should I get? (its in the PCPP list near the bottom).
7. Should I go 2 780's or 1 780ti?
8. What am I going overboard on?
9. If I do go x99, how long will it take for the ddr4 ram to start being available, will there be a rampage V Black edition out when x99 is released, and is it worth the wait?

I think those are all my questions so far. As time goes by I will probably get more questions and will update the thread as necessary. Thank you for reading and I look forward to reading responses! The PC Partpicker link is: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Llamaluvr97/saved/4wch

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May 3, 2014 8:17:07 AM

You might consider this drive as your boot drive instead of the standard SSD. By avoiding the SATA buss you should have better performance.

Check out this page on Asus ROG site. . . it says: "With the launch of 9-series motherboards, the ROG website and forums will also keep a list of M.2 connector protocols available on ASUS, ROG and TUF motherboards."
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Anonymous
May 3, 2014 2:01:02 PM

phillipnolan said:
You might consider this drive as your boot drive instead of the standard SSD. By avoiding the SATA buss you should have better performance.

Check out this page on Asus ROG site. . . it says: "With the launch of 9-series motherboards, the ROG website and forums will also keep a list of M.2 connector protocols available on ASUS, ROG and TUF motherboards."


Thanks for the reply! Just how does the PCIe storage work? Also what are 9 series motherboards?
Thanks again!

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May 4, 2014 8:32:58 PM

just like a standard SSD, just a little more fussy in the initial setup. read the page and follow the instructions and you should be successful.

the 9 series refers to the z97 chipset which includes native support for the m.2 connectors.
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