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Hello People,

Im Milkdud. Nickname of the century. anyways i work at a graphics company printing billboards and other advertising materials. i need to build a new workstation for my office. I was wanting some help from the tek syndicate community to see my options.

Budget: Dont really have one, but im expecting around 2000 to 2500 USD

Location: US of A

Retailer: Newegg prefered

Purpose: Photoshop, Rendering, Moving of large files to printer. Needs to be quick so im thinking ssd caching

OS: Linux, Kubuntu to be exact.

so with this in mind let me see what you guys come up with. Thanks

** something i forgot to mention, Dust. Dust is a big problem here where we work so the case needs to have some filters.

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You will pay a hefty premium if you only use one retailer ... have a look at these then change to just Newegg and you will see the difference

this world do for a z97 rig under $2000

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/pQxsvK

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or this entry level X99 for $2400

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3xNcyc

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Thanks Ratzzz. Ill be doing some talking to the boss this week

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the X99 will out perform the Z97 for sure

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that i know for fact which is what i am hoping they let me run with it and get the x99 platform

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one thing though ratzzz, is the m.2 going to work with linux? havent got my hands on anything m.2 to test.

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Yeah and this is the newest PCIe x4 gen.3 M.2 and it is only made by Samsung and pretty rare ... it comes in 120GB and 512GB that is compatible with the mobo in Win 8 for sure. But ...

I really do not have an answer ... you could ask the manufacturer if it is supported ... the platform is still to new for me to have all the answers ... in fact you may want to ask about Linux support in general .... but they will get there eventually ... one way or another

If they do not support the M.2 get a Samsung 850 Pro they have a ten year warranty ... that is hard to beat

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What exactly is the rendering part of your work? As far as I understand there is not a lot of 3d stuff going on in your company, right? That'd be good to know, because the builds that I saw here so far look a bit overkill to me. It's always good if you can tell the boss "look, I got this awesome machine and I didn't even spend all the money".

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they very well could be ...  if pure speed is all he needs and not as much GPU ... this build is greased lightning for  $1865.36

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/vDH2zy

Run the three SSDs in raid zero (very, very fast but if one SSD fails all fail)

And the WD Blacks in raid five or ten for storage with redundancy and slight performance increase.

The SSDs have a ten year warranty and the WD Blacks have a five year warranty.

The case has good dust filters that will need cleaned often.

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I run a program called caldera for ripping images over to a printer. it is resource heavy on the computer we have now. photoshop is used when there is a change in a design on artwork. most of our files reside on a server. this is what i have come up with.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/rXrDmG

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are you sure you would not benefit from the faster clock and hyper threading on the i7?

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im sure it can. ill do some talking to the boss this week. roughly 100$ difference. im sure theyll let me do it since we do multi-task on 4 workspaces in debian atm

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May consider a xeon CPU functions like i7 and uses less power and costs $15 more than the i5

Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/intel-cpu-bx80646e31231v3

Good luck with both the build and the boss     lol    

If you have time post some picks when it's done.    \m/

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Totally agree with Ratzzz there.

Sorry I have to do it this way, but PCPartPicker does not have all the parts listed.

Here's what I'd go with:

2 x Samsung SSD 850 PRO 256GB, SATA 6Gb/s (MZ-7KE256BW)


1 x Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3, 4x 3.40GHz, Sockel 1150, boxed (BX80646E31231V3)


1 x Crucial DIMM Kit 16GB, DDR3-1600, CL11, ECC (CT2KIT102472BA160B)


1 x PNY Quadro K620, 2GB DDR3, DVI, DisplayPort (VCQ620-PB) Maxwell!


1 x ASUS P9D WS (90SB03E0-M0UAY0/90SB03E0-M0EAY5)


2 x Noctua NF-A14 industrialPPC-2000 PWM 140mm (optional)


1 x Noctua NH-U14S


1 x Fractal Design Define R4 Titanium Grey, silenced (FD-CA-DEF-R4-TI)


1 x Corsair RM Series  RM650  650W ATX 2.31 (CP-9020054-EU)

 

That should be a rock-solid machine with more than enough !Omph! to handle what you throw at it.