Hi All, I'm about to upgrade my PC and would very much like some advice. The PC is used mainly to run Adobe CS 5.5 Master.
Here goes:
Approximate Purchase Date: As soon as I've made a final decision on parts
Budget Range: £2000 - £2500
System Usage from Most to Least Important: I build websites for my company
including creating video's (youtube quality) and do quite a bit of graphics work.
System is being re-built to suit Adobe CS5.5 Master.
Parts Not Required: Keyboard, Mouse (probably), Audio Card, Some Hard drives,
Case, Power Supply, Speakers, CPU fan, Optical drive
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Any reputable in the UK
Country: UK
Parts Preferences: Intel i7 (2011) Nvidea 570 GTX x2
Overclocking: Yes but not to excess
SLI or Crossfire: Yes
Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080 (3 Monitors)
Additional Comments: Good cooling, as quiet as possible, no LED's
I'll start with what I have that I'll (probably) keep:
Antec 1200 (but will replace the stock fans)
Hiper M1000 PSU (again, will probably replace the fan)
LG DVD Writer (I hardly ever use it so no point in replacing)
2 x 500gb WD Caviar Black's
Noctua NH-U12P (probably keep this but add new fans and 2011 mounting kit)
Mackie u420d firewire audio card
Heres what I'm thinking of buying:
Motherboard:
Asus Sabertooth X79 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) Motherboard
http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/motherboards/intel2011x79chipsetmotherboards/90-mibgw0-g0eay00z.html
CPU:
Intel Core i7-3820 3.60GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor
http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/processors/intelcorei72011socket/bx80619i73820.html
Graphics Card's:
Gainward GeForce GTX 570 "Phantom" x2
http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/nvidiageforcegraphicscards/nvidiagtx570fermiseries/4260183361732.html
Ram:
Corsair Vengeance 4GB DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz x 8 (32GB Total)
http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/memory-pc/ddr3-pc3-12800/1600mhz/cmz4gx3m1a1600c9.html
SSD (Boot & Software):
Crucial RealSSD M4 256GB
http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/harddrives-internal/solidstate/128gbandabove/ct256m4ssd2.html
Hard Drives (Data):
Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 64MB Cache x2 (in Raid 0)
http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/harddrives-internal/sata500gbto1tb/wd1002faex.html
Case Fans:
Akasa Apache PWM Fan - 120mm x 6
http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/cooling/fans/100mmplus/ak-fn058.html
Fan Controller:
Nesteq MaxZero Fan Controller
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BB-002-NQ&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=189
Monitors:
3 x 24" tba
(My existing 2 x hard drives will be set in Raid 0 as scratch drives)
So this is what I'm thinking of getting.
I'm flexible and open to advice but do need an i7 system with GTX 570's and 32GB of ram as its whats needed to run Adobe Premiere Pro.
I mentioned I would like a quiet system so any advice on possibly watercooling would also be great.
Thanks in advance.
Here goes:
Approximate Purchase Date: As soon as I've made a final decision on parts
Budget Range: £2000 - £2500
System Usage from Most to Least Important: I build websites for my company
including creating video's (youtube quality) and do quite a bit of graphics work.
System is being re-built to suit Adobe CS5.5 Master.
Parts Not Required: Keyboard, Mouse (probably), Audio Card, Some Hard drives,
Case, Power Supply, Speakers, CPU fan, Optical drive
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Any reputable in the UK
Country: UK
Parts Preferences: Intel i7 (2011) Nvidea 570 GTX x2
Overclocking: Yes but not to excess
SLI or Crossfire: Yes
Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080 (3 Monitors)
Additional Comments: Good cooling, as quiet as possible, no LED's
I'll start with what I have that I'll (probably) keep:
Antec 1200 (but will replace the stock fans)
Hiper M1000 PSU (again, will probably replace the fan)
LG DVD Writer (I hardly ever use it so no point in replacing)
2 x 500gb WD Caviar Black's
Noctua NH-U12P (probably keep this but add new fans and 2011 mounting kit)
Mackie u420d firewire audio card
Heres what I'm thinking of buying:
Motherboard:
Asus Sabertooth X79 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) Motherboard
http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/motherboards/intel2011x79chipsetmotherboards/90-mibgw0-g0eay00z.html
CPU:
Intel Core i7-3820 3.60GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor
http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/processors/intelcorei72011socket/bx80619i73820.html
Graphics Card's:
Gainward GeForce GTX 570 "Phantom" x2
http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/nvidiageforcegraphicscards/nvidiagtx570fermiseries/4260183361732.html
Ram:
Corsair Vengeance 4GB DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz x 8 (32GB Total)
http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/memory-pc/ddr3-pc3-12800/1600mhz/cmz4gx3m1a1600c9.html
SSD (Boot & Software):
Crucial RealSSD M4 256GB
http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/harddrives-internal/solidstate/128gbandabove/ct256m4ssd2.html
Hard Drives (Data):
Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 64MB Cache x2 (in Raid 0)
http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/harddrives-internal/sata500gbto1tb/wd1002faex.html
Case Fans:
Akasa Apache PWM Fan - 120mm x 6
http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/cooling/fans/100mmplus/ak-fn058.html
Fan Controller:
Nesteq MaxZero Fan Controller
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BB-002-NQ&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=189
Monitors:
3 x 24" tba
(My existing 2 x hard drives will be set in Raid 0 as scratch drives)
So this is what I'm thinking of getting.
I'm flexible and open to advice but do need an i7 system with GTX 570's and 32GB of ram as its whats needed to run Adobe Premiere Pro.
I mentioned I would like a quiet system so any advice on possibly watercooling would also be great.
Thanks in advance.