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CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-980 Processor
RAM: Corsair Vengeance™ DDR3 1600MHz 12GB CL9
MB: ASUS Rampage III Extreme, Socket-1366
Disks: 2 x Western Digital Caviar® Black 750GB
GPU: XFX Radeon HD 6950 2GB GDDR5 "Dual Fan"
Box: Fractal Design Arc Midi Tower Sort
PSU: Corsair HX 850W PSU
Also planning on adding a SSD sometime. This box is for Virtual machines, development and some games. If it were just gaming I would have had a quad core.
Typical scenario:
3 visual studio open (w. a good portion of extensions) 300-400 pr. process.
Different browsers, nowadays they eat up a lot of memory, regardless of brand.
Also data processing and correlation, scraping web and packing it into SQL.
I have not kept up on hardware lately, so what I am asking for is peer review that this is a sane build, and that all components should work together for good performance.
This is classed as a "Shopping Reccomendation" question which is off-topic as per the FaQ. If you want to drop into Chat you might get some advice. Just one thing, though, how would you use the Cavair Blacks? Mirrored disks?
– tombull89 – 2011-08-13T15:05:38.157Mirror, was planning to have a 180GB SSD, but the price was too much, so temporarily I will use it for my OS. On another side, how do I ask a question like "Shopping Reccomendation"? Got kicked from stackoverflow over here, and now I'm kicked off here. – CS01 – 2011-08-13T15:42:00.820
how do I ask a question like "Shopping Reccomendation"?
. On the Stack Exchange network, you don't. Otherwise we'd have a lot of "should I buy x motherboard" or "is graphics card x better than card y" clogging up. That's why I suggested chat, things are a bit more "loose" in the sense of site definition. – tombull89 – 2011-08-13T15:51:04.913Alright. My problem is that there are way too many sites talking about hw, and I have a problem of finding out what is new vs soon old, vs old. So I have a problem educating me towards good hardware choices. – CS01 – 2011-08-13T15:56:53.703
The problem with hardware is it changes so fast. So you either have to buy, or don't buy. Don't worry too much about what's coming in the near future that might be better. However, when planning to build a computer, unless you happen to not care about the money, it is always best to go with the latest most cost-efficient hardware, as it allows you one, maybe two upgrades of major components in the future without having to do a full change on the MoBo, RAM type, etc. As far as where, http://chat.stackexchange.com/ is fine to ask these things, as pointed out. Always smart people online.
– Paul – 2011-08-13T17:10:34.943