I'll be using this workstation to build games using Cryengine. However, this would be my first full build experience. I've had experience installing graphic cards,overclocking them, installing ram, and installing hard drives. I haven't bought any of the parts yet because I would like feedback first. Any feedback or suggestions on how I could improve it would be greatly appreciated.
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CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1245 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($274.99 @ Amazon) CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($99.99 @ TigerDirect) Motherboard: ASRock B85 Killer ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($94.99 @ Micro Center) Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($149.99 @ Newegg) Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 750GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($350.99 @ Amazon) Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($146.99 @ Amazon) Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 290X 4GB Video Card ($599.99 @ Newegg) Case: Fractal Design Define R4 (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case ($79.99 @ Newegg) Power Supply: SeaSonic Platinum 1000W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($245.98 @ SuperBiiz) Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($139.98 @ OutletPC) Total: $2183.88 (Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.) (Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-04-07 16:12 EDT-0400)
Seems like it's a rather solid build. I personally, would go with a Nvidia GTX 770 or 780 ti. Only reason, is that I find that Nvidia is a tad bit better with overall performance. Don't get me wrong, Radeon cards are great and in no way I am bashing them, I just think that having a nvidia card would ultimately probably the better option. But other than that, it seems like it would be a great build for what you intend to do.
Pretty good but, a 1000W power supply is not needed in this build you can easily get away with a 600W-700W power supply or an 800W for crossfire. I don't even think that an h100i is necessary since you can't overclock a Xeon in any way. Other than those 2 it looks fine
The H100i is prolly overkill but I would still go for the water cooling. My 3770 is running at 80c with a 50% load (I live in the tropics so ambient is 30c with humidity around 70%). My H75 will be arriving in the mail this week because my computer is effectively a space heater and I'm running up my electricity bill just to counteract it with air conditioning.
As mentioned before, water cooling is very unnecessary for a Xeon... even if you live in a rain forest... you could easily knock off $40 here for a nice air cooler that is quieter/less maintenance/less points of failure...
I would buy 2x8 configuration of RAM for later expandability/less points of failure
I might reevaluate that you actually need 750GB of SSD storage, as that's a huge expense... if you do, it's not a horrible price for a nice SSD...
You can get hybrid 2TB SSHDs for the price of a Caviar Black... much faster peripheral storage
PSU is WAY overkill...
was trying to look up if you would benefit from a professional GPU, and from what I'm reading, the consumer series should perform better... so you're spot on there... just a few things to look at to bring the cost down if you like...
get window's 8 not window's 7 its much faster and watch logan's vid's on how to decrapify it
this takes off i think around 200$ and you can use that money and a little bit more to bu this monitor so you can make develop and see thing's much clearer and cleaner
oh and get two 8 Gb dems instead of getting the 4x4 pattern the reason for this is the ram stick run in a kind of oval shaped pattern to make reach all of the dem's that you put in and if you have less dem's then you can randomly access memory faster oval is smaller (yes I'm simplifying it to an oval but i know that's not the real pattern data takes I'm just simplifying it)