Rebuilding the daily driver for 1k

[Chipfiref]

My old i7-860 is getting long in the tooth. This is an older chipset (P55?) on a Gigabyte board with a Radeon 4800 series card. A few annoying things going on like a dying data drive drive and slower performance due probably to windows 7 age of build (registry) and junky freeware programs. Also my JBOD cabinet bit the dusk from I think a power surge, so maybe the eSata card is also acting up-you get the idea.

Here is what I ordered today
[FONT=&quot]1 x ($339.99) Intel Core i7-4790K Haswell Quad-Core 4.0GHz LGA 1 [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]$339.99[/FONT]​

[FONT=&quot]1 x ($319.99) SAPPHIRE VAPOR-X 100363VX-2SR Radeon R9 280X 3GB P [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]$319.99[/FONT]​

[FONT=&quot]1 x ($242.99) ASRock Z97 Extreme9 LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI SATA 6 [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]$242.99[/FONT]​

[FONT=&quot]1 x ($69.99) Noctua NH-U14S 140x150x25 ( NF-A15 PWM) SSO2-Beari [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]$69.99[/FONT]​

[FONT=&quot]1 x ($-0.99) DISCOUNT FOR AUTOADD #115040[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]$-0.99[/FONT]​

That Sapphire Vapor-X 280X is going into my gaming machine and I will take its 4970 card. Decent price on this Sapphire card now with 3 free games from egg. Here is an interesting review http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/sapphire_vapor_x_r9_280x_tri_x_oc/17.htm

I have the big Antec P-160 aluminum case and a Coolermaster 750W I will reuse, with optical drive and a few hard drives. WIll probably finally use that Sandisk Extreme II SSD II got on sale.

Looking forward to that ASRock Extreme9 - Dual Intel NICs, and supports Thunderbolt, and the new super fast mSata. I am going to get ambitious and set up a second LAN for backup and admin as a few of my machines have Dual NICs. Anyone have this extreme9?

So lots of work over the next few nights to do backups and get all my licensing in order.[FONT=&quot]
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[mfenn]

Genreally speaking, you should ask about parts before you buy. 🙂 Overall I'd say you overspend quite a bit on the GPU and mobo. In my opinion, better options would have been:

- Sapphire R9 280X $240 AR - the extra 80 MHz on the Tri-X isn't worth $80
- i5 4970K + ASRock Z97 Extreme6 combo $475 AR - this board has M.2 (mSATA is obsolete) and dual NICs for $92 less than the Extreme9. The combo saves you $15. The state of Thunderbolt on Windows is pretty awful, so you're not missing out on anything except pain and lack of vendor support.