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N0BOX: Awesome reply btw, I have not heard of G.Skill, how reliable are their components? I will need a motherboard that can support the Ivy Bridge chipset doe the P9X79 Deluxe? I will look into the Quadro line of GPUs they sound brilliant for what I need. Thank you for the CPU suggestion, as far as I know I will not be doing video encoding so this is not a priority. Thank you for the Windows 7 version suggestion, saved me alot of time trying to get the right one. Thank you again for your expertises.
Case: Corsair Obsidian 550D. Is this a good enough case for what I want to do?
GPU: I have a Palit GTX Sonic 460 series at this time but I am not sure if this will be enough, suggestions?
CPU: I would like to either i7 Sandybridge or, if possible get i7 Ivy Bridge. I think Ivy Bridge would be worth the extra money but again please crit.
PSU: I already have a Thermaltake Toughpower 700w power supply, will this be large enough?
HD: I have recently purchased a 10000rpm Samsung 1TB HD from scan which I will be installing as well. I do need an SSD to run my programs off but again I do not know what size drive I need.
I don't know anything at all about G.Skill, which is why I tend to pay more for Patriot or Mushkin. Lots of people buy G.Skill RAM every day, and I haven't seen a lot of bad reviews on newegg.com (where I shop here in the states). I just worry a lot when I run into something that costs a lot less than everything else.
The i7-3930K is a different processor line altogether from the 2600K or the 3770K. It is a Sandy Bridge-E, which is the 'Enthusiast' version of the Sandy Bridge line. Rather than double-channel memory like the regular Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge lines, it uses quad-channel. Where the Ivy Bridge line has something like 16 or 20 PCIE 2.0 lanes, it has 40. Unfortunately they are not compatible with the regular Sandy and Ivy Bridge lines. They are LGA 2011, where the regular lines are LGA 1155. In the future, Intel will be coming out with the Ivy Bridge-E series, which will also be LGA 2011, and the current P9X79 motherboards will be able to support those chips and PCIE 3.0. Intel is supposed to release the Ivy Bridge-E series at the same time as their next line of regular chips (code named Haswell).
A lot of people seem to like picking that case in their builds. As far as I know, it should be compatible with everything. The only thing to consider if you were to chose a Sandy Bridge-E processor is that they do not come with a stock CPU cooler. Most people pick up a rather large heatsink/fan so that they can get a decent overclock on their new chip (which is a fantastic choice for an overclocker), so you'd want to be sure that there is plenty of clearance in the case to make room for it.
I assume that GPU is an Nvidia GTX 460? I've never heard of the Palit brand. The Quadro line of GPUs would be quite an upgrade, given what software you are using, but the GTX 460 would be much better for gaming than a Quadro GPU. You might consider keeping the GTX 460 for use with CUDA processing and gaming, and buying a Quadro for use with your 3D software.
That PSU is probably big enough to handle everything, because you wouldn't be running a Quadro and your GTX 460 at the same time (they would have completely different uses). You might consider upgrading to a slightly larger PSU that is made by Seasonic (including XFX and some Corsair PSUs). They make higher-quality PSUs according to a lot of people here on the forums, and you want something high quality if you are investing a lot of money in your new system.
I would figure that a 240GB-256GB SSD would be big enough for most people with a normal collection of games. 120GB is just a tiny bit too small for me. I have a 90GB steam directory, and then I add a collection of Adobe software and Windows 7 Ultimate to break the limit. I'd recommend a Samsung 830 series 256GB ssd for you.
The Ivy Bridge line has some quirks you should know about. They upgraded their transistor process to a '3D' transistor, which packs more transistor logic into a smaller space. That means that the heat of a Sandy Bridge processor is now concentrated into a smaller space. Now, the Ivy Bridge line requires less power than the Sandy Bridge line, which means that for the same amount of processor power you use much less power. The only problem with this situation is that if you want to do any overclocking, you have a more 'extra heat' in a smaller space. It becomes very hard to overclock the Ivy Bridge line past 4.5GHz, where you can push the Sandy Bridge line high enough to beat the equivalent Ivy Bridge chips. You lose out on power efficiency, but you get better price-vs-power out of the Sandy Bridge line. The Sandy Bridge-E line is a completely different story. There is nothing out there that can really compete with SB-E, and you can overclock the SB-E chips to some ridiculous speeds if you know what you are doing, but they just suck power and blow off tons of heat. You wouldn't expect to win any efficiency contests with SB-E, but that's the price you pay for having half-again or more the CPU power of anything else out there (assuming the program you are using is multi-threaded).
I would suggest reading the Tom's Hardware reviews of the Sandy Bridge-E chips (i7-3960X, i7-3930K, i7-3820) and the Ivy Bridge chips before making a decision. For most people the IB line is all they need, but for some people, the extra power of the SB-E line really makes sense. It all depends on how hard you push your computer, and for how long you are pushing it that hard.
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