Well I'm planning to build a new PC that is on the high-end of the scale (imo) with my budget capped at about $10k. I have the money set aside plus a little extra, but the wife has me on a monthly budget, that was her deal for letting me do this, so I'm going to be purchasing the parts over the next few months. Hopefully during that time I'm going to be able to custom paint the case and plan some mods out, but not sure how much I'll do if anything more than painting.
Looking for a critique of chosen components and any suggestions. I've put plenty of low-mid budget systems together for friends and upgraded lots of systems, but this is the first one I've actually done for myself and first that has a budget this high.
So here we go:
OS - Windows 7 Ultimate I own a couple of unused Legally purchased copies that were supposed to go in friends' systems that never came to fruition so I kept the OS's for future use
Case - HAF X (replacing all of the stock fans with Blue LED fans and adding in the optional top fan and the 80mm fan for the VGA bracket...I might leave the front Red LED fan for a bit of variation as those are my two favorite colors, but will have a backup blue one if I don't like it)
Motherboard - ASUS P6T7 WS Supercomputer
RAM - G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 24GB (6 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3
CPU - Intel Core i7-990X Extreme Edition Gulftown 3.46GHz
CPU Fan and Heatsink - Thermaltake Frio Overclocking-Ready Intel Core i7 (six-core ready) & i5 Compatible Five 8mm Heatpipes Dual 120mm Fans Intel & AMD Universal CPU Cooler CLP0564
GPU - 3x ASUS EAH6950 DCII/2DI4S/2GD5 Radeon HD 6950 2GB for Tri-Crossfire Setup (will unlock to 6970 BIOS)...If MST hubs ever get released I might consider running dual 6990's or if an Eyefinity 6 version gets released for the 6990
Power Supply - ENERMAX MAXREVO Series EMR1350EWT 1350W ATX12V / EPS12V v2.92, v2.8 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Power Supply
SSD - Intel 320 Series SSDSA2CW080G3B5 2.5" 80GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive
HDD - 4x Seagate Barracuda XT ST32000641AS 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Card Reader - Rosewill RCR-IC001 40-in-1 USB 2.0 3.5" Internal Card Reader w/ USB Port / Extra Silver Face Plate
DVD Burner - LITE-ON 24X DVD Writer 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Black SATA Model iHAS424-98 LightScribe Support
Blue Ray Burner - LITE-ON Black 12X BD-R 2X BD-RE 16X DVD+R 12X DVD-RAM 8X BD-ROM SATA 12X Blu-ray Burner with Blu Ray 3D Feature IHBS112-04 - OEM
Sound Card - Creative PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series Sound Card
Speakers - Logitech Z906 500W 5.1 Speakers
Keyboard - Logitech G19 Black 104 Normal Keys USB Wired Standard Gaming Keyboard
Mouse - Tt eSports MO-BLE001DT Black 9 Buttons USB Wired Laser 6500 dpi Element Gaming Mouse
Monitors - 6x ASUS PA Series PA238Q Black 23"
Monitor Stand - Super Hex Monitor Stand holds up to 6 26" Monitors
OR
Monitors + Stand - Samsung MD230x6 (Don't like the price of these, but the bezel is amazing and if I'm going big for the rest, might as well go big for the monitors)
UPS - Tripp Lite SU2200RTXL2UA Smart Online 2200 VA 1600 Watts 7 Outlets 2U Rackmount Extended Runtime UPS
Printer - I already own a HP Color Laserjet
Water Cooling - Not sure if it will be needed or not with the HAF X case and I don't really know much about setting the cooling system up, so I'm still researching that and will determine if it's needed and what to do once the system is built and running. This is the biggest thing I'm interested in learning about and possibly incorporating.
Fan Controller - Would like to put a nice touchscreen fan controller in as well, but most of the ones I've seen don't have great reviews so still looking around for that and might just go with a non-touchscreen
TV Tuner - Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250 Media Center Kit Dual TV Tuner 1213 PCI-Express x1 Interface (Haven't decided if I'm going to incorporate this or not)
RAID Controller - Haven't decided how to add it in and which to get yet
I may end up needing a riser card and if so I will add a couple more things. Any thoughts, suggestions, criticisms welcomed. This will be a multi-use computer for gaming, video/picture editing, movies, music, and general use. I'm going this route simply because I can and have been wanting a setup similar to this for a while.
Looking for a critique of chosen components and any suggestions. I've put plenty of low-mid budget systems together for friends and upgraded lots of systems, but this is the first one I've actually done for myself and first that has a budget this high.
So here we go:
OS - Windows 7 Ultimate I own a couple of unused Legally purchased copies that were supposed to go in friends' systems that never came to fruition so I kept the OS's for future use
Case - HAF X (replacing all of the stock fans with Blue LED fans and adding in the optional top fan and the 80mm fan for the VGA bracket...I might leave the front Red LED fan for a bit of variation as those are my two favorite colors, but will have a backup blue one if I don't like it)
Motherboard - ASUS P6T7 WS Supercomputer
RAM - G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 24GB (6 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3
CPU - Intel Core i7-990X Extreme Edition Gulftown 3.46GHz
CPU Fan and Heatsink - Thermaltake Frio Overclocking-Ready Intel Core i7 (six-core ready) & i5 Compatible Five 8mm Heatpipes Dual 120mm Fans Intel & AMD Universal CPU Cooler CLP0564
GPU - 3x ASUS EAH6950 DCII/2DI4S/2GD5 Radeon HD 6950 2GB for Tri-Crossfire Setup (will unlock to 6970 BIOS)...If MST hubs ever get released I might consider running dual 6990's or if an Eyefinity 6 version gets released for the 6990
Power Supply - ENERMAX MAXREVO Series EMR1350EWT 1350W ATX12V / EPS12V v2.92, v2.8 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Power Supply
SSD - Intel 320 Series SSDSA2CW080G3B5 2.5" 80GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive
HDD - 4x Seagate Barracuda XT ST32000641AS 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Card Reader - Rosewill RCR-IC001 40-in-1 USB 2.0 3.5" Internal Card Reader w/ USB Port / Extra Silver Face Plate
DVD Burner - LITE-ON 24X DVD Writer 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Black SATA Model iHAS424-98 LightScribe Support
Blue Ray Burner - LITE-ON Black 12X BD-R 2X BD-RE 16X DVD+R 12X DVD-RAM 8X BD-ROM SATA 12X Blu-ray Burner with Blu Ray 3D Feature IHBS112-04 - OEM
Sound Card - Creative PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series Sound Card
Speakers - Logitech Z906 500W 5.1 Speakers
Keyboard - Logitech G19 Black 104 Normal Keys USB Wired Standard Gaming Keyboard
Mouse - Tt eSports MO-BLE001DT Black 9 Buttons USB Wired Laser 6500 dpi Element Gaming Mouse
Monitors - 6x ASUS PA Series PA238Q Black 23"
Monitor Stand - Super Hex Monitor Stand holds up to 6 26" Monitors
OR
Monitors + Stand - Samsung MD230x6 (Don't like the price of these, but the bezel is amazing and if I'm going big for the rest, might as well go big for the monitors)
UPS - Tripp Lite SU2200RTXL2UA Smart Online 2200 VA 1600 Watts 7 Outlets 2U Rackmount Extended Runtime UPS
Printer - I already own a HP Color Laserjet
Water Cooling - Not sure if it will be needed or not with the HAF X case and I don't really know much about setting the cooling system up, so I'm still researching that and will determine if it's needed and what to do once the system is built and running. This is the biggest thing I'm interested in learning about and possibly incorporating.
Fan Controller - Would like to put a nice touchscreen fan controller in as well, but most of the ones I've seen don't have great reviews so still looking around for that and might just go with a non-touchscreen
TV Tuner - Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250 Media Center Kit Dual TV Tuner 1213 PCI-Express x1 Interface (Haven't decided if I'm going to incorporate this or not)
RAID Controller - Haven't decided how to add it in and which to get yet
I may end up needing a riser card and if so I will add a couple more things. Any thoughts, suggestions, criticisms welcomed. This will be a multi-use computer for gaming, video/picture editing, movies, music, and general use. I'm going this route simply because I can and have been wanting a setup similar to this for a while.
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