Hi,
I'm putting an order together in the next few days for a homebuilt CAD / Rendering workstation.
It will primarily be running AutoCAD, Revitt, 3dMax, Afterworks etc.
My main query is over the case / CPU fan / Case fan.
I'm aiming at an i7 3930k - probably with a Noctua NH-D14 - which looks pretty big.
Is there a particular case that I should be looking at both to suit the size of the D14, and to maximise cooling ?
Also - any advice on case cooling will be appreciated.
The overall spec I've narrowed it down to is (apart from GPU which I'm still looking at):
CPU Intel i7 3930k 3.20 GHZ
Motherboard ASUS P9X79 PRO LGA 2011
Memory 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 QuadCore Corsair vengeance 1866MHz
Graphics Card EVGA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB GDDR5 (will most probably downgrade this to 580 or 7970)
HD1: SanDisk SSD SATA III 2.5" 128GB
HD2: 1TB Western Digital SATA Caviar Black 64MB cache
DVD/CD RW DVD/CD RW - SATA
Case ATX Full Tower ?
PSU Corsair TX 650W V2 ATX2.31 80Bronze Power Supply
CPU fan Noctua NH-D14 *2011* Dual Radiator CPU Cooler
Case Fan ?
OS Win 7 Pro 64bit or Win 8 64bit
Many thanks
I'm putting an order together in the next few days for a homebuilt CAD / Rendering workstation.
It will primarily be running AutoCAD, Revitt, 3dMax, Afterworks etc.
My main query is over the case / CPU fan / Case fan.
I'm aiming at an i7 3930k - probably with a Noctua NH-D14 - which looks pretty big.
Is there a particular case that I should be looking at both to suit the size of the D14, and to maximise cooling ?
Also - any advice on case cooling will be appreciated.
The overall spec I've narrowed it down to is (apart from GPU which I'm still looking at):
CPU Intel i7 3930k 3.20 GHZ
Motherboard ASUS P9X79 PRO LGA 2011
Memory 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 QuadCore Corsair vengeance 1866MHz
Graphics Card EVGA GeForce GTX 680 2048MB GDDR5 (will most probably downgrade this to 580 or 7970)
HD1: SanDisk SSD SATA III 2.5" 128GB
HD2: 1TB Western Digital SATA Caviar Black 64MB cache
DVD/CD RW DVD/CD RW - SATA
Case ATX Full Tower ?
PSU Corsair TX 650W V2 ATX2.31 80Bronze Power Supply
CPU fan Noctua NH-D14 *2011* Dual Radiator CPU Cooler
Case Fan ?
OS Win 7 Pro 64bit or Win 8 64bit
Many thanks