Game Development Workstation

[MrGamingdwarf]

Hello all! I am looking to hook some of my developers up with new PCs, we have quite a budget as we need only 3 PCs.

I've been looking around and decided on Dual Xeon E5-2630s and a single GTX Titan, I don't want to go Quadro because it's not good for gaming, and we make games so I feel a Titan will be better. I will be waiting for the new Titan Black edition for this, I put Titan as a placeholder.

We do a lot of work in Maya, Unity, and some Unreal Engine. Mostly Unity and Maya. I do want watercooling as I prefer quiet as possible systems because of the office we work in, we have multiple PCs running at the same time in a small area.

I know the system isn't 100% compatible but I've done some modding in the past and feel I can squish everything into this small of a case. If not, I'll just buy a different case.

Any opinions are greatly appreciated.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver 3.5g Thermal Paste ($6.73 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Asus Z9PE-D8 WS SSI EEB Dual-CPU LGA2011 Motherboard ($529.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Corsair Dominator Platinum 64GB (8 x 8GB) DDR3-2133 Memory ($940.98 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung EVO 1TB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($534.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Samsung EVO 1TB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($534.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX Titan 6GB Video Card ($998.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: NZXT H440 ATX Mid Tower Case ($127.83 @ TigerDirect)
Case Fan: Noctua NF-A14 FLX 68.0 CFM 140mm Fan ($20.47 @ NCIX US)
Case Fan: Noctua NF-A14 FLX 68.0 CFM 140mm Fan ($20.47 @ NCIX US)
Case Fan: Noctua NF-A14 FLX 68.0 CFM 140mm Fan ($20.47 @ NCIX US)
Case Fan: Noctua NF-A14 FLX 68.0 CFM 140mm Fan ($20.47 @ NCIX US)
Case Fan: Noctua NF-A14 FLX 68.0 CFM 140mm Fan ($20.47 @ NCIX US)
Case Fan: Noctua NF-A14 FLX 68.0 CFM 140mm Fan ($20.47 @ NCIX US)
Case Fan: Noctua NF-A14 FLX 68.0 CFM 140mm Fan ($20.47 @ NCIX US)
Case Fan: Noctua NF-A14 FLX 68.0 CFM 140mm Fan ($20.47 @ NCIX US)
Case Fan: Noctua NF-A14 FLX 68.0 CFM 140mm Fan ($20.47 @ NCIX US)
Case Fan: Noctua NF-A14 FLX 68.0 CFM 140mm Fan ($20.47 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Corsair RM 1000W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($184.99 @ Amazon)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro - OEM (64-bit) ($134.98 @ OutletPC)
Monitor: Asus MX279H 27.0" Monitor ($299.99 @ Amazon)
Monitor: Asus MX279H 27.0" Monitor ($299.99 @ Amazon)
Keyboard: Corsair Vengeance K70 Wired Gaming Keyboard ($129.99 @ Amazon)
Mouse: Corsair Vengeance M65 Wired Laser Mouse ($49.99 @ Microcenter)
Headphones: Func HS-260 Headset ($90.25 @ Newegg)
Other: Dual Xeon E5-2630 ($1299.98)
Other: Black Ice GT Stealth 360 ($69.95)
Other: Black Ice GTX Xtreme 360 ($119.95)
Other: Black Ice GT Stealth 140 ($62.95)
Other: Dual EK Supremacy Elite LGA 2011 ($243.98)
Other: EK GTX Titan VGA Waterblock ($125.98)
Other: PrimoChill PrimoFlex Advanced LRT Tubing ($49.98)
Other: BitsPower Compression Fittings ($179.80)
Other: Swiftech MCP655-B Pump ($145.98)
Other: BitsPower 250ML Reservoir ($42.99)
Other: PrimoChill Base Intensified Distilled Water ($53.98)
Total: $7464.90
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-01-29 18:57 EST-0500)

 

[Outlander_04]

Im not sure where the 10 fans are going to fit . You only have two open slots for them in the top of the case .
But that might not be much of an issues since the motherboard is EEB form factor and wont fit in an ATX case anyway

Were you planning on running the two SSD's in a RAID 0 array? A single pci-e SSD would be faster

A 750 watt psu would be ample even with two processors and a Titan .

 

[MrGamingdwarf]

Im not sure where the 10 fans are going to fit . You only have two open slots for them in the top of the case .
But that might not be much of an issues since the motherboard is EEB form factor and wont fit in an ATX case anyway

Were you planning on running the two SSD's in a RAID 0 array? A single pci-e SSD would be faster

A 750 watt psu would be ample even with two processors and a Titan .

3 for the 360 in the roof, and 6 in push pull on the front 360 with the hard drive cages removed, and one on the rear 140 rad.

That's what I'm going to try and mod in, see if I can fit the board in the case. And I picked 1000w for future proof, maybe for a Quadro or any other thing we need down the road.