I'm looking at building an i7-4790K based machine, and could use recommendations on parts choices, especially the motherboard and RAM.
Approximate Purchase Date: Immediate
Budget Range: $1000 or less, if possible. Could stretch to $1200 if I had to.
System Usage from Most to Least Important: FPGA compiling(multithreaded), VMWare Workstation(at max, around 2 VM instances running desktop OSs), Visual Studio, Photoshop/Lightroom, file/disk-heavy usage
Are you buying a monitor: No.
Parts to Upgrade: (e.g.: CPU, mobo, RAM) Buying these things new: DVD Burner, Case, mobo, power supply, RAM, fans, CPU. Will re-use Sandisk Extreme Pro 480gb and existing monitors. Don't need hard drives. Don't need anything special as far as graphics cards go. Mobo should support a mid-range card for future upgrades.
Do you need to buy OS: No.
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: amazon.com, newegg.com
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Parts Preferences: Probably the i7-4790K, just due to excellent benchmark results at a reasonable price.
Overclocking: Maybe: if it's relatively straight-forward, safe, and cooling requirements are easily satisfied.
SLI or Crossfire: No
Your Monitor Resolution: 1920 x 1080, dual 24" monitor setup now.
Additional Comments: I wouldn't mind a window on the case, some led fans, or something to spice the machine up a little bit. I'd like most of the money to go towards parts that will make a performance difference, rather than an asthetic one. I'm moving away from hard drives and to SSD everywhere I can -- if this could reduce the physical size of the case, even better.(keeping in mind that a future upgrade to a single mid-range graphics card might exist) Probably need room for a single hard drive, a dvd burner + a few SSDs.
And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: I'm impatient and this machine is pretty old. FPGA Compiling is taking forever. The machine only has Sata II ports which are not taking full advantage of the SSD. The machine tops out at 8GB. This machine has an Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 at 2.83ghz[1]. Overall performance of the machine for GENERAL tasks is very reasonable, but I just need a bigger/badder CPU and I'd like to have a max capacity of at least 32GB of ram. Probably populate 16GB initially, as long as I can afford it.
[1] http://ark.intel.com/products/33924/Intel-Core2-Quad-Processor-Q9550-12M-Cache-2_83-GHz-1333-MHz-FSB
Approximate Purchase Date: Immediate
Budget Range: $1000 or less, if possible. Could stretch to $1200 if I had to.
System Usage from Most to Least Important: FPGA compiling(multithreaded), VMWare Workstation(at max, around 2 VM instances running desktop OSs), Visual Studio, Photoshop/Lightroom, file/disk-heavy usage
Are you buying a monitor: No.
Parts to Upgrade: (e.g.: CPU, mobo, RAM) Buying these things new: DVD Burner, Case, mobo, power supply, RAM, fans, CPU. Will re-use Sandisk Extreme Pro 480gb and existing monitors. Don't need hard drives. Don't need anything special as far as graphics cards go. Mobo should support a mid-range card for future upgrades.
Do you need to buy OS: No.
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: amazon.com, newegg.com
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Parts Preferences: Probably the i7-4790K, just due to excellent benchmark results at a reasonable price.
Overclocking: Maybe: if it's relatively straight-forward, safe, and cooling requirements are easily satisfied.
SLI or Crossfire: No
Your Monitor Resolution: 1920 x 1080, dual 24" monitor setup now.
Additional Comments: I wouldn't mind a window on the case, some led fans, or something to spice the machine up a little bit. I'd like most of the money to go towards parts that will make a performance difference, rather than an asthetic one. I'm moving away from hard drives and to SSD everywhere I can -- if this could reduce the physical size of the case, even better.(keeping in mind that a future upgrade to a single mid-range graphics card might exist) Probably need room for a single hard drive, a dvd burner + a few SSDs.
And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: I'm impatient and this machine is pretty old. FPGA Compiling is taking forever. The machine only has Sata II ports which are not taking full advantage of the SSD. The machine tops out at 8GB. This machine has an Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 at 2.83ghz[1]. Overall performance of the machine for GENERAL tasks is very reasonable, but I just need a bigger/badder CPU and I'd like to have a max capacity of at least 32GB of ram. Probably populate 16GB initially, as long as I can afford it.
[1] http://ark.intel.com/products/33924/Intel-Core2-Quad-Processor-Q9550-12M-Cache-2_83-GHz-1333-MHz-FSB
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