Ok here goes.
Will be picking this up so important to get parts from either MicroCenter, Ultimate Electronics, or Best Buy (cringe). First system built in over 10 years, previously haven't had much experience with overclocking and am looking to change that. This will be a pretty high end workstation mostly for Adobe Creative Suite Master Edition (all products) and Maya. Also potentially some gaming but that is secondary. Ultimate need is to be able to run 3d modeling and animation software and handle rendering in a somewhat timely manner. Also since this will be a prime workstation I will be running a RAID 5 and taking a monthly image backup (hopefully not too difficult in a RAID configuration) because loosing data would be significant to say the least.
APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: (24 Hours) BUDGET RANGE: (1.5k - 2.2k)
SYSTEM USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: (3D Animation/Rendering, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator)
PARTS NOT REQUIRED: Build currently doesn't include mouse/keyboard/monitor as those are on a separate budget
PREFERRED WEBSITE(S) FOR PARTS: (www.microcenter.com, USA, MN)
PARTS PREFERENCES: Have read Nvidia cards do a bit better with Adobe products but please correct me if I am wrong.
OVERCLOCKING: Yes SLI OR CROSSFIRE: Yes
MONITOR RESOLUTION: 1024x768, 1280x1024
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: quiet would be nice I suppose, but I guess I'll be blasting music most of the time so no biggy. Biggest concern for me is re-usability in future builds of Case and Power Supply (plan on upgrading in 2 years and rotating these parts into a backup workstation)
OS - Windows 7 64bit
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$229.00 Intel Corporation Core i7 920 Processor Boxed SKU: 930933
cpu
$239.99 Asus Computer International P6T X58 1366 ATX Motherboard SKU:
MB
169.99 x2 339.98 OCZ Technology 6GB DDR3-1600 (PC3-12800) Obsidian Triple Channel Memory Kit (Three 2GB Memory Modules)
RAM
3.99 Arctic Silver Arctic Alumina Premium Ceramic Thermal Compound 1.75 gram
cream action
149.99 ($20 rebate) Cooler Master HAF932 High Air Flow Full Tower
Tower Case
$69.99 x3 $209.97 hitachi - Global Storage Technologies Deskstar 1TB 7,200RPM SATA Hard Drive SKU: 220186
3 hard drives
$149.99 Corsair Memory TX750W 750 Watt ATX 12V Power Supply SKU: 374868
Power Supply
$169.99 x2 $339.98 BFG Technologies GeForce® GTX 260 OC MAXCORE 55 896MB GDDR3 PCIe 2.0 Graphics Card SKU: 171207
Double graphics cards
$59.99 Xigmatek Dark Knight S1283V Heat-Pipe Direct Touch Air Cooling System SKU: 034819
Dark Knight heat sync
SUBTOTAL $1,723.87
SHIPPING OPTION $0.00
TAX $125.41
TOTAL $1,849.28
Will be picking this up so important to get parts from either MicroCenter, Ultimate Electronics, or Best Buy (cringe). First system built in over 10 years, previously haven't had much experience with overclocking and am looking to change that. This will be a pretty high end workstation mostly for Adobe Creative Suite Master Edition (all products) and Maya. Also potentially some gaming but that is secondary. Ultimate need is to be able to run 3d modeling and animation software and handle rendering in a somewhat timely manner. Also since this will be a prime workstation I will be running a RAID 5 and taking a monthly image backup (hopefully not too difficult in a RAID configuration) because loosing data would be significant to say the least.
APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: (24 Hours) BUDGET RANGE: (1.5k - 2.2k)
SYSTEM USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: (3D Animation/Rendering, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator)
PARTS NOT REQUIRED: Build currently doesn't include mouse/keyboard/monitor as those are on a separate budget
PREFERRED WEBSITE(S) FOR PARTS: (www.microcenter.com, USA, MN)
PARTS PREFERENCES: Have read Nvidia cards do a bit better with Adobe products but please correct me if I am wrong.
OVERCLOCKING: Yes SLI OR CROSSFIRE: Yes
MONITOR RESOLUTION: 1024x768, 1280x1024
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: quiet would be nice I suppose, but I guess I'll be blasting music most of the time so no biggy. Biggest concern for me is re-usability in future builds of Case and Power Supply (plan on upgrading in 2 years and rotating these parts into a backup workstation)
OS - Windows 7 64bit
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$229.00 Intel Corporation Core i7 920 Processor Boxed SKU: 930933
cpu
$239.99 Asus Computer International P6T X58 1366 ATX Motherboard SKU:
MB
169.99 x2 339.98 OCZ Technology 6GB DDR3-1600 (PC3-12800) Obsidian Triple Channel Memory Kit (Three 2GB Memory Modules)
RAM
3.99 Arctic Silver Arctic Alumina Premium Ceramic Thermal Compound 1.75 gram
cream action
149.99 ($20 rebate) Cooler Master HAF932 High Air Flow Full Tower
Tower Case
$69.99 x3 $209.97 hitachi - Global Storage Technologies Deskstar 1TB 7,200RPM SATA Hard Drive SKU: 220186
3 hard drives
$149.99 Corsair Memory TX750W 750 Watt ATX 12V Power Supply SKU: 374868
Power Supply
$169.99 x2 $339.98 BFG Technologies GeForce® GTX 260 OC MAXCORE 55 896MB GDDR3 PCIe 2.0 Graphics Card SKU: 171207
Double graphics cards
$59.99 Xigmatek Dark Knight S1283V Heat-Pipe Direct Touch Air Cooling System SKU: 034819
Dark Knight heat sync
SUBTOTAL $1,723.87
SHIPPING OPTION $0.00
TAX $125.41
TOTAL $1,849.28