Well maybe a semi- beast...
I asked for some advice on this over a year ago and got great responses, but life took a different turn and by the time I got back to it the computer world had moved on quickly as usual.
So I have done a bit of research - and it could all be wrong - but this is what I have come up with - some of these parts may be there just for the thrill of it - it could be that a better rig could be built at a similar price with other parts.
I have $4000 as my guide - would be glad to come in under by a lot - would go up to $6000 if I was really getting a massive performance boost.
I would love some advice - if this build of mine is silly - or if there is something missing or a conflict.
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2630 Sandy Bridge-EP 2.3GHz 15MB L3 Cache LGA 2011 95W Six-Core Server Processor
- is it just me, but I am drooling about having two cpus.
ASUS Z9PE-D8 WS Dual LGA 2011 Intel C602 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 SSI EEB Intel Motherboard
- it exists - I can buy it now. Some others I looked at are not in shops though they are "released' - whatever that means.
8 x Kingston 8GB DDR3-1333 ECC/REG CL9(Low Power 1.35V)
- recommended by asus for the mobo.
1 x Nvidia GTX 680
- I am not a gamer - don't need two cards - this one has over 1500 cuda cores which should help Photoshop, 3dsmax, premiere. After Effects does not use the graphics cards (well it does a bit, but not all of it does, and the adobe guys themselves don't use the GPU for After Effects - it runs mainly off RAM and CPU)
- there are quaddro cards that are meant to be better for graphics, but they are built on older gpu technology and I really cannot get a definitive answer, than the "officially reccommended" answer. And those Quaddro cards do not seem to stack up against the GTX series - I can't help but thinking they have some hardware mod on the board that makes it officially a quaddro board with not much difference at all except price - I could be totally wrong but find it strange that there doesen't seem to be a benchmark test of a quaddro cards up against gtx doing graphics rendering, video etc - maybe there is - and I haven't seen it.)
1 x CRUCIAL M4 512GB 2.5" SSD 6Gb/s SOLID STATE DRIVE SATA III / II
- seems to me if you are making the processor and other parts fast - why hold back on this. This would be the drive for the operating system and programs. I currently use about 250gig on just programs.
Also need advice on:
Some kind of raid swappable storage sytem thing
Tower that fits all of this and would have good airflow. I have had overheat issues before, I live in a pretty warm climate and can't stand air con.
Power supply
Cooling - a little bit afraid of going liquid cool, but could be talked into it. Don't like fan noise but maybe I have to live with it. This bit concerns me
Sorry if that was a bit long - just wanted to get it out there where I am at. Would love some help.
Thanks
Lloyd
I asked for some advice on this over a year ago and got great responses, but life took a different turn and by the time I got back to it the computer world had moved on quickly as usual.
So I have done a bit of research - and it could all be wrong - but this is what I have come up with - some of these parts may be there just for the thrill of it - it could be that a better rig could be built at a similar price with other parts.
I have $4000 as my guide - would be glad to come in under by a lot - would go up to $6000 if I was really getting a massive performance boost.
I would love some advice - if this build of mine is silly - or if there is something missing or a conflict.
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2630 Sandy Bridge-EP 2.3GHz 15MB L3 Cache LGA 2011 95W Six-Core Server Processor
- is it just me, but I am drooling about having two cpus.
ASUS Z9PE-D8 WS Dual LGA 2011 Intel C602 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 SSI EEB Intel Motherboard
- it exists - I can buy it now. Some others I looked at are not in shops though they are "released' - whatever that means.
8 x Kingston 8GB DDR3-1333 ECC/REG CL9(Low Power 1.35V)
- recommended by asus for the mobo.
1 x Nvidia GTX 680
- I am not a gamer - don't need two cards - this one has over 1500 cuda cores which should help Photoshop, 3dsmax, premiere. After Effects does not use the graphics cards (well it does a bit, but not all of it does, and the adobe guys themselves don't use the GPU for After Effects - it runs mainly off RAM and CPU)
- there are quaddro cards that are meant to be better for graphics, but they are built on older gpu technology and I really cannot get a definitive answer, than the "officially reccommended" answer. And those Quaddro cards do not seem to stack up against the GTX series - I can't help but thinking they have some hardware mod on the board that makes it officially a quaddro board with not much difference at all except price - I could be totally wrong but find it strange that there doesen't seem to be a benchmark test of a quaddro cards up against gtx doing graphics rendering, video etc - maybe there is - and I haven't seen it.)
1 x CRUCIAL M4 512GB 2.5" SSD 6Gb/s SOLID STATE DRIVE SATA III / II
- seems to me if you are making the processor and other parts fast - why hold back on this. This would be the drive for the operating system and programs. I currently use about 250gig on just programs.
Also need advice on:
Some kind of raid swappable storage sytem thing
Tower that fits all of this and would have good airflow. I have had overheat issues before, I live in a pretty warm climate and can't stand air con.
Power supply
Cooling - a little bit afraid of going liquid cool, but could be talked into it. Don't like fan noise but maybe I have to live with it. This bit concerns me
Sorry if that was a bit long - just wanted to get it out there where I am at. Would love some help.
Thanks
Lloyd
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