This system is a serious number cruncher. With a pair of Ivy Bridge-EP-based Xeon E5-2620 CPUs and 32 GB of RAM, you certainly won't be lacking in horsepower. An Nvidia Quadro K4000 workstation graphics card backs up the Xeons and their mountain of memory. The builder didn't ignore storage performance either, a whopping 960 GB Crucial M500 boot SSD and a pair of 3 TB 7200 RPM Seagate Barracuda HDDs give you seven terabytes of total drive space! Topping it all of is a Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD sound card and a duo of Blu-ray burners. A stately Lian-Li chassis shows that this rig is all business. Congratulations to forum member guchaochen for having his recommended build picked by the Tom's Hardware community this quarter!
| Component | Model | Average price |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2 (Ivy Bridge-EP) Hexa-Core CPU @ 2.1 GHz | $400 |
| Cooling system | 2 x Dynatron R24 | $33 |
| Motherboard | Supermicro MBD-X9DR3-F-O | $450 |
| RAM | Kingston 32GB DDR3-1600 ECC Kit (4 x 8 GB) | $375 |
| Graphics Card | Nvidia Quadro K4000 VCQK4000-PB 3GB GDDR5 | $765 |
| Sound card | Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD | $150 |
| Hard Drive and SSD | Crucial M500 960GB SSD | $520 |
| Hard Drive and SSD | 2 x Seagate Barracuda 3 TB 7200 RPM HDD | $100 |
| Power Supply | Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 1200W 80 PLUS Gold | $205 |
| Case | Lian-Li PC-A75 Full-Tower | $185 |
| DVD Burner | 2 x Pioneer BDR-208DBK Blu-Ray Burner | $60 |
| TOTAL : $3,243 | ||