This is the first computer I've ever built . I'm about to buy the hardware below and was hoping I could get some confirmation that I am making the right decisions. It is important to me to be able to perform roughly the following computing load with about HALF (or so) of my resources. I have another thread on this build but I think I must have made it so confusing it became a hopless read .
Typical applications running in some combination:
Adobe reader (30 instances--yes I need many papers open)
Power Desk or Directory opus
Google desktop
NOD32
Spysweeper
Task switcher
Zone alarm Pro
Acronis True Image
Windows media player
Winedt
Yap
constant Latex compilations
google earth
streaming news
VPN network
Google IM
Outlook
IE explorer (10)
Nero—usually ripping or burning something
Maple10
Mathematica 6
Quicken—banking notifications
some kind of Registry Monitor app
Math type 5
Deep fritz 8 chess program
Download manager
Password manager
Wintasks for killing all unnecessary processes/services
Blue tooth synch with laptop
wi fi Connection utility
Running various scheduled cleanup tasks
Autohothey
I'll be running most of these together (except e.g. maple and mathmatica), streaming some news, and I want to make a computer that will do all this without a hicup. I don't want to notice when my backups/scans etc are running .
2) I am running two large digital flat panel monitors
3) On board sound is fine (on, say, a nice ASUS)
4) Sometimes all the programs will be shut down except mathematica, which will be doing a calculation for perhaps hours, or until it says uncle.
5) As I said I am NOT DOING ANY GAMING, but I dont want to have to go to 16 bit color to free up resources either.
6) I don't want to change from XP 64 bit until I have to. I just want everything to run smooth and not distract me from the work--preferably ever. I'm not doing this build because im interested in it--for me this thing is just a tool. I hope you will help people like that too .
7) I want to apply the doctrine of overwhelming computation power: I want to be able to do all this with like...half my resources. This is because I think it wont be long till each of my application updates add some bologna i dont need but cant get rid of without taking time to think about it.
8) Say 4 or so 1Tb internal hard drives
9) really nice dvd burner and a dvd player/cdrom burner.
10) are there benchmarking sites dedicated to seeing how components perform under what i have noticed is quite normal academic use. (in e.g. math and physics departments)
11) The budget is not an issue (grant) but I don't want to waste either.
Is the following going to be OK?
Antec TruePower Quattro TPQ-1000 1000W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply
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Antec Twelve Hundred Black Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case
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ASUS P6T Deluxe LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard
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EVGA 896-P3-1267-AR GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Superclocked Edition 896MB 448-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
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Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition 965 Nehalem 3.2GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor
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Two of these:
G.SKILL 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Triple Channel Kit Desktop Memory
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Four of these:
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
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Two of these:
SAMSUNG Black 22X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 16X DVD+R DL 22X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA 22X DVD Burner - OEM
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OCZ OCZTFRZTC Freeze Extreme Thermal Conductivity Compound
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Bose 40274 2.0 Companion 2 Series II multimedia speaker system
Typical applications running in some combination:
Adobe reader (30 instances--yes I need many papers open)
Power Desk or Directory opus
Google desktop
NOD32
Spysweeper
Task switcher
Zone alarm Pro
Acronis True Image
Windows media player
Winedt
Yap
constant Latex compilations
google earth
streaming news
VPN network
Google IM
Outlook
IE explorer (10)
Nero—usually ripping or burning something
Maple10
Mathematica 6
Quicken—banking notifications
some kind of Registry Monitor app
Math type 5
Deep fritz 8 chess program
Download manager
Password manager
Wintasks for killing all unnecessary processes/services
Blue tooth synch with laptop
wi fi Connection utility
Running various scheduled cleanup tasks
Autohothey
I'll be running most of these together (except e.g. maple and mathmatica), streaming some news, and I want to make a computer that will do all this without a hicup. I don't want to notice when my backups/scans etc are running .
2) I am running two large digital flat panel monitors
3) On board sound is fine (on, say, a nice ASUS)
4) Sometimes all the programs will be shut down except mathematica, which will be doing a calculation for perhaps hours, or until it says uncle.
5) As I said I am NOT DOING ANY GAMING, but I dont want to have to go to 16 bit color to free up resources either.
6) I don't want to change from XP 64 bit until I have to. I just want everything to run smooth and not distract me from the work--preferably ever. I'm not doing this build because im interested in it--for me this thing is just a tool. I hope you will help people like that too .
7) I want to apply the doctrine of overwhelming computation power: I want to be able to do all this with like...half my resources. This is because I think it wont be long till each of my application updates add some bologna i dont need but cant get rid of without taking time to think about it.
8) Say 4 or so 1Tb internal hard drives
9) really nice dvd burner and a dvd player/cdrom burner.
10) are there benchmarking sites dedicated to seeing how components perform under what i have noticed is quite normal academic use. (in e.g. math and physics departments)
11) The budget is not an issue (grant) but I don't want to waste either.
Is the following going to be OK?
Antec TruePower Quattro TPQ-1000 1000W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply
------------------------------
Antec Twelve Hundred Black Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case
------------------------------
ASUS P6T Deluxe LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard
------------------------------
EVGA 896-P3-1267-AR GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Superclocked Edition 896MB 448-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
-----------------------------
Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition 965 Nehalem 3.2GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor
-----------------------------
Two of these:
G.SKILL 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Triple Channel Kit Desktop Memory
-----------------------------
Four of these:
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
----------------------------
Two of these:
SAMSUNG Black 22X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 16X DVD+R DL 22X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA 22X DVD Burner - OEM
----------------------------
OCZ OCZTFRZTC Freeze Extreme Thermal Conductivity Compound
---------------------------
Bose 40274 2.0 Companion 2 Series II multimedia speaker system