Build support request for a power house rig.

[shaunkilroy]

Approximate Purchase Date: ASAP

Budget Range: <10k

System Usage from Most to Least Important:
-photo editing (using Photoshop CS5)
-audio processing and server (24-bit audio, transmitting over 2.4GHz to Sony media server in Living Room)
-video streaming (hi rez blu-ray to Sony)

Parts Not Required: (e.g.: keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, OS) **Include Power Supply Make & Model If Re-using**

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: No preference, except reputable only.

Country of Origin: USA

Parts Preferences: Intel; Full Tower. Thinking a multi-socket motherboard, with either quad core or 6-core processors. Prefer to have support for USB 3.0, SATA 3.0, PCIe, can handle at least 6 1TB drives, at least 32 GB of ram, support for solid state disc drives, and can run windows 7(64-bit OS).

Overclocking: No

SLI or Crossfire: Maybe

Monitor Resolution:

Additional Comments: .

One of my interests is looking at SSD drives is to move away from mechanical ones, and hence the need to have to mirror with a second drive.


Asus PA246 monitor
Radeon HD-557X-ZNFR graphic card (plugs into PCIe x16 slot)
http://xfxforce.com/en-us/Home.aspx

M-Audio ProFire 610 external audio module with FireWire interface
http://www.m-audio.com/

Two 1 terabyte SATA drives (1 is where I keep my music files, the other is a mirror drive)

 

[rozz]

oh.. the things i could buy with 10k..

 

[shaunkilroy]

Any assistance available? Opinions/advice? And yes I know it's a quite an expensive rig; but that was the cap provided to me by the person that asked for my assistance, but his specs are a bit out of my normal build range so I thought I would ask around.

 

[rozz]

question.. why in the world would you need 32GB of RAM?!

 

[rozz]

2x Intel Xeon E5645 Westmere-EP 2.4GHz LGA 1366
& ASUS Z8PE-D12(ASMB4-IKVM) Dual LGA 1366 Intel 5520 Tylersburg SSI EEB 3.61

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.735971

Wintec 48GB (6 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Registered DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Server Memory
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820161459

OCZ Z-Drive R2 P88 512GB PCI-E PCI-Express interface (x8) MLC Enterprise Solid State Disk
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227524

6x Seagate Constellation ES ST31000424SS 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SAS 6Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148784

You pick the case and PSU..

Get the PCI express enterprise SSD. They are very reliable and extremely fast.. hense the price..

I also picked Seagates Constellation ES drives because i have past experience with them. They are very fast mechanical drivers and they never fail.. *knock on wood*

 

[shaunkilroy]

@384-BiT - Do you know of a release date available on that?

 

[shaunkilroy]

any advice on getting around neweggs, 1 per customer rule?

 

[shaunkilroy]

or any additional build ideas?

 

[shaunkilroy]

I'm surprised a bit, I expected more than a single build model. Is there any additional information I can provided to possibly obtain additional build support?

 

[Taylor422]

You might give this thread a look. It's got a wealth of information on workstation class custom builds.