New cruncher?

[petrusbroder]

I have the following:

• i7-3930K CPU,
• Corsair Obsidian 550D Midi Tower with three 120 mm fans and one 140mm fan (takes ATX-boards),
• Sony DVD-RW,
• PCIe-RAID controller with a 3.4 TB diskarray (Samsung F2 HDD)
• Corsair HX850W 80+Gold PSU.

I want to buy the following:

• ASUS P9X79 PRO
• Corsair H100i Hydro Series CPU cooler
• Gainward GeForce GTX 770 2GB
• Kingston DDR3 HyperX Beast 8GB 1866MHz 2x4GB KIT CL9 HyperX Beast
• Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB BK OEM Basic KIT

The computer will be a cruncher 95% of the time and a back-up repository for all the pics and documents of my family. The back-ups are done once a week ...

The H100i and the SSD are both at a 17 - 20% discount ...

What do you think about this shopping list?
Please remember, I live in Sweden, where all electronics are approx. 20 - 30% more expensive than in the USA. If I buy new stuff outside of Sweden, I have to pay a 25% VAT ...

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Looks pretty good to me.

 

[biodoc]

I have the following:

• i7-3930K CPU,
• Corsair Obsidian 550D Midi Tower with three 120 mm fans and one 140mm fan (takes ATX-boards),
• Sony DVD-RW,
• PCIe-RAID controller with a 3.4 TB diskarray (Samsung F2 HDD)
• Corsair HX850W 80+Gold PSU.

I want to buy the following:

• ASUS P9X79 PRO
• Corsair H100i Hydro Series CPU cooler
• Gainward GeForce GTX 770 2GB
• Kingston DDR3 HyperX Beast 8GB 1866MHz 2x4GB KIT CL9 HyperX Beast
• Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB BK OEM Basic KIT

The computer will be a cruncher 95% of the time and a back-up repository for all the pics and documents of my family. The back-ups are done once a week ...

The H100i and the SSD are both at a 17 - 20% discount ...

What do you think about this shopping list?
Please remember, I live in Sweden, where all electronics are approx. 20 - 30% more expensive than in the USA. If I buy new stuff outside of Sweden, I have to pay a 25% VAT ...

Looks good Peter.

If you want to take advantage of quad channel memory, you'll need to have one or two sticks of RAM for each channel for a total of 4 or 8 sticks of RAM.

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks for the tip, biodoc. I had forgotten about quad-channel ... and that is not expensive at all! I have considered to have 16 GByte RAM anyhow ...

 

[Vertaxis]

It looks good. But, you don't need a SSD for this system. Save the money and buy a hard drive. If you need to save power/heat, then get a 2.5" notebook hard disk.

 

[StitchExperimen]

The X79 boards are sometimes picky for the memory they will accept so check the manufactures tested memory. I was able to get 1866 memory and run it in 9-11-9-29-1T for xmp 1.3 you could also run this same memory at 9-10-9-29-2T this is on a Gigabyte X79 UP4 G.Skill F3-14900CL9-4GBZL the motherboard http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...62&Tpk=x79-up4 is $240 it's not a bad board there are more expensive. it doesn't have bluetooth or SSD caching but it's got 4-way SLI instead of 3 (800 watts of heat in the winter!)
Spend the money on redundant HD drives.