I am looking to put a system together that can be OC but with no plans to do it for a couple of years. We've had our current system for 8 years (it is a Dell XPS) and we mainly use it for browsing the web.
Pentium 4 3.4ghz
2gb ram
TWO 65 gb sata HDD running raid 0
New system parts
COOLER MASTER HAF X Blue Edition RC-942-KKN3 Black Steel / Plastic ATX Full Tower Computer Case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119239
High Current Pro HCP-850 850W TX12V v2.3 / EPS12V v2.92 SLI Certified CrossFire Certified 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371053
ASUS P9X79 WS LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 SSI CEB Intel Motherboard with USB BIOS
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131798
Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition Sandy Bridge-E 3.3GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) LGA 2011 130W Six-Core Desktop Processor BX80619i73960X
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116491
CORSAIR H100 (CWCH100) Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181017
G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2400 (PC3 19200) Desktop Memory Model F3-19200CL9Q-16GBZMD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231521
TWO OCZ Vertex 4 VTX4-25SAT3-256G 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227792
Looking for opinions on Video Cards because I was figuring it would be a GTX 680 but depending on the availablity when I order parts would be willing to go with a HD 7970.
Also looking for recommendations on a optical writer, blu ray write optional.
I would like to first make sure I didn't get something that was incompatible with something else and then your comments on the other parts as I am not necessarily locked into getting one brand over another (excluding Intel processor) I was looking for quality parts that might possibly last me another 8 years.
Currently I have 30 GB free HDD space and nothing ever deleted just to save space, so while most new builds have at least 1TB of normal HDD I thought 2 256GB SSDs would be more than enough for now.
I was also figuring that 16 GB was plenty for now but was wondering if since I wasn't looking to overclock right now if maybe it would be better to get 32 GB ram of simliar price but slower speed or 16gb of slower and cheaper.
I am not against the 3930K but my wife didn't complain when I said the cost would be +/- $4000 so my thinking was that the 3960x was still faster than the 3930k @ stock speeds and even though 6 cores is overkill right now it might buy me an extra year or 2 before we feel it is too slow and needs to be replaced. I don't have a problem not spending the total budget but I am not a computer "geek" anymore (unfortunately) so I don't want to make upgrades on a half yearly or even yearly basis. If I still lived in SoCal 30 minutes away from 2 different FRY's I would have never bought a dell but the local computer shops out here in MD act like they never had DOA parts and said unless they installed it (for a price of course) they wouldn't exchange them.
I also referenced newegg for every part just to make it easier for me. Just FYI I will be ordering any parts I can from Best Buy as we get reward dollars for money spent there but if for whatever reason it is cheaper not to buy any parts from them that's that way it will be.
Other than using it for normal web browsing I have about 30 1hr HD mini DV tapes I want to put to DVD and I would rather have have a system that never hits 40% of its potential for the first year or two than wait 8 hours for a 1 hour video to render which is what it currently takes. The only reason we have to so many tapes is because I don't like the time it takes to put it to dvd.
As a timeframe I am ready anytime I fell confident about the system but I am willing to wait a month or 2 for whatever reason to put it together but not much more than that.
Thanks for your responses in advance and sorry for any grammatical/spelling errors.
Pentium 4 3.4ghz
2gb ram
TWO 65 gb sata HDD running raid 0
New system parts
COOLER MASTER HAF X Blue Edition RC-942-KKN3 Black Steel / Plastic ATX Full Tower Computer Case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119239
High Current Pro HCP-850 850W TX12V v2.3 / EPS12V v2.92 SLI Certified CrossFire Certified 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371053
ASUS P9X79 WS LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 SSI CEB Intel Motherboard with USB BIOS
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131798
Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition Sandy Bridge-E 3.3GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) LGA 2011 130W Six-Core Desktop Processor BX80619i73960X
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116491
CORSAIR H100 (CWCH100) Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181017
G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2400 (PC3 19200) Desktop Memory Model F3-19200CL9Q-16GBZMD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231521
TWO OCZ Vertex 4 VTX4-25SAT3-256G 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227792
Looking for opinions on Video Cards because I was figuring it would be a GTX 680 but depending on the availablity when I order parts would be willing to go with a HD 7970.
Also looking for recommendations on a optical writer, blu ray write optional.
I would like to first make sure I didn't get something that was incompatible with something else and then your comments on the other parts as I am not necessarily locked into getting one brand over another (excluding Intel processor) I was looking for quality parts that might possibly last me another 8 years.
Currently I have 30 GB free HDD space and nothing ever deleted just to save space, so while most new builds have at least 1TB of normal HDD I thought 2 256GB SSDs would be more than enough for now.
I was also figuring that 16 GB was plenty for now but was wondering if since I wasn't looking to overclock right now if maybe it would be better to get 32 GB ram of simliar price but slower speed or 16gb of slower and cheaper.
I am not against the 3930K but my wife didn't complain when I said the cost would be +/- $4000 so my thinking was that the 3960x was still faster than the 3930k @ stock speeds and even though 6 cores is overkill right now it might buy me an extra year or 2 before we feel it is too slow and needs to be replaced. I don't have a problem not spending the total budget but I am not a computer "geek" anymore (unfortunately) so I don't want to make upgrades on a half yearly or even yearly basis. If I still lived in SoCal 30 minutes away from 2 different FRY's I would have never bought a dell but the local computer shops out here in MD act like they never had DOA parts and said unless they installed it (for a price of course) they wouldn't exchange them.
I also referenced newegg for every part just to make it easier for me. Just FYI I will be ordering any parts I can from Best Buy as we get reward dollars for money spent there but if for whatever reason it is cheaper not to buy any parts from them that's that way it will be.
Other than using it for normal web browsing I have about 30 1hr HD mini DV tapes I want to put to DVD and I would rather have have a system that never hits 40% of its potential for the first year or two than wait 8 hours for a 1 hour video to render which is what it currently takes. The only reason we have to so many tapes is because I don't like the time it takes to put it to dvd.
As a timeframe I am ready anytime I fell confident about the system but I am willing to wait a month or 2 for whatever reason to put it together but not much more than that.
Thanks for your responses in advance and sorry for any grammatical/spelling errors.