1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing.
I will be using this system for code compilation, already did some testing on the 920 and want even faster performance
2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread This is for a major corporation, performance is more important than price.
3. What country YOU will be buying YOUR parts from. USA
4. IF YOU have a brand preference. That means, are you an Intel-Fanboy, AMD-Fanboy, ATI-Fanboy, nVidia-Fanboy, Seagate-Fanboy, WD-Fanboy, etc, etc, etc, you get the picture. I did a fair amount of research on my components, but if you have a suggestion please add it!
5. If YOU intend on using any of YOUR current parts, and if so, what those parts are. There will be no parts recycled
6. IF YOU have searched and/or read similar threads. yes
7. IF YOU plan on overclocking or run the system at default speeds. overclocking had not been ruled out, will most likely do some OCing if only to test
8. WHEN do you plan to build it? within the month
And here are the components I picked out:
*Antec Nine Hundred Two Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail
*2x Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000HLFS 300GB 10000 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard
Drive RAID0
*EVGA 512-P3-N866-TR GeForce 9600 GT Superclocked Edition 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail- not going to be gaming so no need for a multi-gpu card, open to suggestions though
*SeaSonic M12 SS-700HM 700W ATX12V V2.3 / EPS12V V2.91 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply - Retail is this PSU big enough? I'm not running _that_ much hardware
*G.SKILL 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2000 (PC3 16000) Desktop Memory Model F3-16000CL9T-6GBPS - Retail
*ASUS Rampage II Extreme LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
*Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition 965 Nehalem 3.2GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80601965 - Retail
*ZALMAN CNPS9900LED 120mm 2 Ball CPU Cooler - Retail
Can you recommend a different CPU cooler?
Now, im sure some of you are going to come in here and tell me it's overkill, but I've already effectively reduced compile times by 1/2 by using a Nehalem 920 system with only dual channel ram- hoping triple channel will decrease compile times even more. I decided to go with the velociraptors in a RAID0 rather than an INTEL SSD, in my testing the SSD was about 432 seconds for compile, as opposed to 154 with the velociraptors.
Any other suggestions are welcomed- no monitor or kbd/mouse- these systems will be run headless and I will use VNC to connect to them.
I will be using this system for code compilation, already did some testing on the 920 and want even faster performance
2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread This is for a major corporation, performance is more important than price.
3. What country YOU will be buying YOUR parts from. USA
4. IF YOU have a brand preference. That means, are you an Intel-Fanboy, AMD-Fanboy, ATI-Fanboy, nVidia-Fanboy, Seagate-Fanboy, WD-Fanboy, etc, etc, etc, you get the picture. I did a fair amount of research on my components, but if you have a suggestion please add it!
5. If YOU intend on using any of YOUR current parts, and if so, what those parts are. There will be no parts recycled
6. IF YOU have searched and/or read similar threads. yes
7. IF YOU plan on overclocking or run the system at default speeds. overclocking had not been ruled out, will most likely do some OCing if only to test
8. WHEN do you plan to build it? within the month
And here are the components I picked out:
*Antec Nine Hundred Two Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail
*2x Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000HLFS 300GB 10000 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard
Drive RAID0
*EVGA 512-P3-N866-TR GeForce 9600 GT Superclocked Edition 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail- not going to be gaming so no need for a multi-gpu card, open to suggestions though
*SeaSonic M12 SS-700HM 700W ATX12V V2.3 / EPS12V V2.91 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply - Retail is this PSU big enough? I'm not running _that_ much hardware
*G.SKILL 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2000 (PC3 16000) Desktop Memory Model F3-16000CL9T-6GBPS - Retail
*ASUS Rampage II Extreme LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
*Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition 965 Nehalem 3.2GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80601965 - Retail
*ZALMAN CNPS9900LED 120mm 2 Ball CPU Cooler - Retail
Can you recommend a different CPU cooler?
Now, im sure some of you are going to come in here and tell me it's overkill, but I've already effectively reduced compile times by 1/2 by using a Nehalem 920 system with only dual channel ram- hoping triple channel will decrease compile times even more. I decided to go with the velociraptors in a RAID0 rather than an INTEL SSD, in my testing the SSD was about 432 seconds for compile, as opposed to 154 with the velociraptors.
Any other suggestions are welcomed- no monitor or kbd/mouse- these systems will be run headless and I will use VNC to connect to them.
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