Hello all,
as per subject I'm looking for expert's advice on my new home built configuration, as I did not do this in a very long time I would need some help to make sure I did not make any error and/or put non compatible stuff in my "basket", I've searched the forum and internet in general for some reviews on the components I've chose and the compatibly among them but as I've said I would like to have a proof "review".
Keep in mind I live in Switzerland so some components are not an option and I had to work with what I've found around at a semi decent (pretty much a joke in the most expensive city in the world) price, the main purposes for the pc will be gaming and proof of concepts labs, I work a lot with Virtualization and need to maintain heavy duty VMs up for tests and labs, for the purpose using a server would be better but that's not an option at the moment, so here we go with the config:
MB : Asus P9X79 DELUXE, X79
CPU: Intel Core i7 3820 (Preferred over the 3930 for price reasons as it does not seems to worth double the price performance wise)
Memory: Corsair Dominator, 4x 8GB, DDR3-1600, CL10@1.5V SKU:CMP32GX3M4X1600C10
OR Corsair Vengeance, 4x8GB, DDR3-1600, CL10@1.5V SKU:CMZ32GX3M4X1600C10 (Not sure which of the two)
Video: Asus GTX-670 DirectCU
Sound : Creative Sound Blaster Z
Case: Cooler Master HAF X RC-942-KKN1 Big-Tower
Power Supply: Club 3D CSP-X1000CB, 1000 Watt, 80 Plus Bronze
SSD: Sandisk Extreme SSD 240GB
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Black, 7200rpm, 64MB, 2TB, SATA-3
As I've written I'm not really sure which of the two memories I should go for, my ideal system should have 64GB but if I understood correctly buying 2 kits even of the same memory would be mixing them and I've read some horror stories about stability which I'm not sure if have been solved or not, matter of fact no 64GB kit exists so far so any experience or advice would be highly appreciated!
Do you think the above config can work? Do you see any room for improvement? As I've said keep in mind I've tried to balance price and performances so I know there is better stuff around but this should just suit my needs for the time being (I change PC every few years).
Thanks in advance Obs.
as per subject I'm looking for expert's advice on my new home built configuration, as I did not do this in a very long time I would need some help to make sure I did not make any error and/or put non compatible stuff in my "basket", I've searched the forum and internet in general for some reviews on the components I've chose and the compatibly among them but as I've said I would like to have a proof "review".
Keep in mind I live in Switzerland so some components are not an option and I had to work with what I've found around at a semi decent (pretty much a joke in the most expensive city in the world) price, the main purposes for the pc will be gaming and proof of concepts labs, I work a lot with Virtualization and need to maintain heavy duty VMs up for tests and labs, for the purpose using a server would be better but that's not an option at the moment, so here we go with the config:
MB : Asus P9X79 DELUXE, X79
CPU: Intel Core i7 3820 (Preferred over the 3930 for price reasons as it does not seems to worth double the price performance wise)
Memory: Corsair Dominator, 4x 8GB, DDR3-1600, CL10@1.5V SKU:CMP32GX3M4X1600C10
OR Corsair Vengeance, 4x8GB, DDR3-1600, CL10@1.5V SKU:CMZ32GX3M4X1600C10 (Not sure which of the two)
Video: Asus GTX-670 DirectCU
Sound : Creative Sound Blaster Z
Case: Cooler Master HAF X RC-942-KKN1 Big-Tower
Power Supply: Club 3D CSP-X1000CB, 1000 Watt, 80 Plus Bronze
SSD: Sandisk Extreme SSD 240GB
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Black, 7200rpm, 64MB, 2TB, SATA-3
As I've written I'm not really sure which of the two memories I should go for, my ideal system should have 64GB but if I understood correctly buying 2 kits even of the same memory would be mixing them and I've read some horror stories about stability which I'm not sure if have been solved or not, matter of fact no 64GB kit exists so far so any experience or advice would be highly appreciated!
Do you think the above config can work? Do you see any room for improvement? As I've said keep in mind I've tried to balance price and performances so I know there is better stuff around but this should just suit my needs for the time being (I change PC every few years).
Thanks in advance Obs.