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dominikgajos467

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Hey guys so recently my old laptop died and I've wanted to build a custom PC. Here is the spec list and I just wanted to make sure these components fit in the prodigy m.


Case- Bitfenix Prodigy M

CPU - Intel Core i7 4960x

Motherboard - Asus Rampage IV Gene

Ram - Corsair Dominator 4 x 8GB of 1866MHz SDRAM

CPU Cooler - Corsair H110 or H100i (not sure)

SSD - Samsung 850 Pro 512gb

HDD - 2x Seagate Constellation 128mb cache Sata 600 2TB

GPU - 2x Geforce GTX Titan Black

Fans - 3x Noctua 120mm Super Quiet

Fan Controller - NZXT Sentry Mix

PSU - Corsair Professional Platinum Series 1200w (Not Sure if this is too much of power)



At first I chose the NZXT Phantom 410 but I thought I needed something more portable. Let me know what you think below.

 
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You need yo take a look at case specs to see what will fit.

H100i needs 2 x 120mm fan spaces together.

Titans need 267mm vga card length.

You know what to look for now. So go look.
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So the mac pro would be better in video editing and work basically. The PC should be better for playing games and it would still would be good for video editing, but not as good as the macpro I presume. Personally I think the Bitfenix Phenom M is the way to go. It has 5 pcie slots so enough for two titan blacks. I'll use the same specs as I mentioned. Anyone think this would be a beast? Im basically new to PC building.
 
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None of this really works.

Firstly - what is this for? It's ridiculously expensive and there is very little that actually need two GTX Titans or 32Gb of ram. If you know specifically what you are going for with this it's a lot easier to make suggestions.
You certainly don't need anything like 1200W - an 850W is plenty sufficient but due to the larger stepped increments on some PSUs (they leap from ~750 to 1000W in some instances) you could make a case for a 1000W.

Most of your compatibility issues come from the case, it's a bit of a mess of a design - the ITX Prodigy is much better.
In the Prodigy M you run into all sorts of compatibility problems, most of which you've hit (these basically all apply to the Phenom M too)-

  • ■ Install a long graphics card and you can't fit a long PSU.
    ■ Install two graphics cards and you remove the ability to fit fans on the top section.
    ■ Install two graphics cards and the ODD bay is effectively unusable (though you should be able to fit the fan controller, the depth behind it is very limited)
    ■ There isn't really anywhere to mount a 240mm rad, let alone a 280mm rad, despite having the 120mm fan mounts.
    ■ Many of the drive mounting locations interfere/are shared with locations for fans/cooling.
There's other issues like general cooling, as well as negative characteristics carried over from the original Prodigy like the "Prodigy wobble".

Stepping up from one of these to a Phantom doesn't make a huge amount of sense to me as there are some really great mATX cases which support SLI and can fit all of the things you originally planned. The obvious picks would be the Fractal Design Arc Mini or Corsair 350D, but there's a really good selection of fairly conventional designs which will work really well for a build of this nature.
 
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I do not really have a budget, Im just looking for a computer which suits my needs. I will be using this for everyday full hd video editing, maybe 4k someday. I will also use this for extreme gaming on the LG 34UM95-P semi 4k display. I've surfed a bit on google and found that as Rammy said, the obvious pick is the Corsair 350D and the fractal design mini. Personally I prefer the Fractal Design mini. Would a corsair h100i and a geforce gtx titan black sli fit in this case? I read that if you remove the upper HDD cage the gpu may be as long as 400mm. I'll only be using two slots anyways. Any suggestions?
 
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It really depends what software you are using - there's very little which two GTX Titans is actually useful for. There's a fair amount of software these days which can take advantage of graphics card compute but there is likely to be a limit as to how helpful this is.

I'd be kinda loathed to buy an X79 motherboard at the moment given that X99 is very nearly here. If you are spending that kind of money it would be a shame for it to be semi-redundant pretty quickly, especially when SATA Express is already available on much cheaper mainstream boards.

There's no reason you can't fit a H100i and two Titan Blacks in an Arc Mini, the bigger question is if you need to.
 
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