Just ordered parts!

[lambchops511]

Sorry... Just want to wag my e-penis a little bit...

CPU
Intel Core i7 3770 [http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...EdpNo=2372992]

Motherboard
Intel Z77 BOXDZ77BH55K [http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...2E16813121606]

SSD
Intel SSD 240 GB [http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Series-S...dp/B008M56YHS]

Memory
Corsair 16GB DDR3 1600 CAS11 [http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...2E16820145357]

PSU
SeaSonic X750 Gold [http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...2E16817151087]

Video Card:
Unknown... hoping to get a GTX 480 for free, if not, going to buy a refurbished GTX 580.

 

[Durvelle27]

you spent way to much on this build ?

Corsair CX Series CX750 750W $99 - SeaSonic X750 Gold 750W $149

Intel BOXDZ77BH55K LGA 1155 Intel Z77 $169 - ASRock Z77 Extreme4 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 $134

and a GTX 580 isn't really worth it when you can get a HD 7950 or GTX 670 for the same price and would perform better

 

[lambchops511]

you spent way to much on this build ?

Corsair CX Series CX750 750W $99 - SeaSonic X750 Gold 750W $149

Intel BOXDZ77BH55K LGA 1155 Intel Z77 $169 - ASRock Z77 Extreme4 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 $134

and a GTX 580 isn't really worth it when you can get a HD 7950 or GTX 670 for the same price and would perform better

I got the X750 awhile back for $110.

Motherboard I am OK w. I rather get Intel parts for stability.

GTX 580 because I am compute CUDA, can't go AMD and 670 is slower.

 

[postmortemIA]

congrats I recently got i7-3770 and it's a beast.

 

[balane]

GTX 580 because I am compute CUDA, can't go AMD and 670 is slower.

I just know I'm going to regret asking this but why "can't" you go AMD?

Also, how is a 670 slower than a 580?

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/517?vs=598

I'm a sucker for punishment.

 

[lambchops511]

I just know I'm going to regret asking this but why "can't" you go AMD?

Also, how is a 670 slower than a 580?

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/517?vs=598

I'm a sucker for punishment.

Because OpenCL sucks big time if you're writing your own compute apps. Even if the AMD was for free, and you assume your time is worth $10 / hr, NVIDIA still has a much lower total cost of ownership. CUDA has libraries such as cuFFT, cuBLAS, thrust, etc...

Also, when BigKepler comes out (which I will get immediately no matter the cost), CUDA will also support dynamic parallelism which is HUGE. This feature alone is enough to buy NVIDIA chips even if they cost 10x more in our line of work.

OpenCL is just not mature at all, plus in compute its not just raw horse power, having a ferrari engine is useless without the chasis, driver, tires, etc... to support it.