Component Selection
I promised a Haswell-E and a storage upgrade during our last SBM, but combining those two things didn’t leave much room for a high-model Haswell-E, or even a top graphics card within my $1500 hardware budget. We’d still need other somewhat-expensive things such as a minimum of 16GB DDR4 in quad-channel mode, and a big stable power supply. Let’s start with the CPU: