Hi guys... I'm new here...
I need a new rig, but it must be multi-purpose, fun and lots of room to learn & practice on, but it must also handle my school-projects...
With my eye's on the upcoming study-courses I decided to take in the (near) future I decided that it's time to buy/build a new/better system than the one I'm currently using.
I have done some months of research and I ended up with a shopping-list I like to put up for discussion & criticizing first, before buying & feeling sorry afterwards... I usually dream long and hard about buying new stuff (especially for longterm use)...
In the first year of the courses I don't need a high-end workstation, because I will be able to use CS5 at school during the basics-phase, but down the road I will need to get my own workstation that will be capable of running CS5, Blender, After Affects and more of such... And, yes I'm still new with those programs, I've practiced on Elements & Pinnacle Studio 15 for about a year+ now. I thought about buying a Mac Pro (because they have rows of them at school), but after some research I quickly found out this isn't the time to switch to Mac Pro (if ever), and those machine are damn pricey! For that same money I should be able to build a better working system that has far more upgrade & tweak possibilities in the future!
I used to be an active FPS gamer once (long time ago when I was able to play AA v1 up to Overmatch on a 1.8Ghz Core 2 Duo CPU with a single Geforce 7500LE GPU), but nowadays the only game I still like to play sometimes is AA3 (bridgejunky and I haven't tried any of the newer FPS games yet Wich I now run on a Intel i7 2600 CPU and a Asus P8H67-M PRO MoBo with a GT 520 GPU. I would like the new set-up to be able the run BF3 with ease... I would also like to play & learn about over-clocking, and try it myself, so the new rig must be able to allow me to do so. My current MoBo, CPU, RAM and GPU will be installed at my mom's (she now has my old PC:-(
Here is the list I came up with:
PSU: Corsair Pro Series Gold 1200Watt - So I can add more hardware down the road and have room to tune up for gaming and such). I did a test somewhere (can't remember the site, but I filled in how it will be in 1-2 years) and the result was 1080Watt
Case: Carbide Series 500R Mid-Tower Case - I can't seem to find the case's form factor if the PSU-size will fit in the mid-size case? (Feel so newb saying this...)
CPU: Intel i7 2600K
CPU Cooling: Corsair Cooling Hydro Series H100
MoBo: Asus P8P67 WS Revolution
GPU: - Don't know yet, I think it will be Nvidia. (Might be a Quadro 2000 or 4000, don't know whats the best price/performance.)
RAM: - I don't know yet either, haven't figured out how to know what type works best with the P8P67 WS Revolution!? (And have still to read about over-clocking RAM.)
I also think I should have the Win OS on a fast SSD (flash or DRAM?) and use HighRev HDD's for storage. (Still need to read more about this.)
Does anyone have some good & honest advice for me?
I need a new rig, but it must be multi-purpose, fun and lots of room to learn & practice on, but it must also handle my school-projects...
With my eye's on the upcoming study-courses I decided to take in the (near) future I decided that it's time to buy/build a new/better system than the one I'm currently using.
I have done some months of research and I ended up with a shopping-list I like to put up for discussion & criticizing first, before buying & feeling sorry afterwards... I usually dream long and hard about buying new stuff (especially for longterm use)...
In the first year of the courses I don't need a high-end workstation, because I will be able to use CS5 at school during the basics-phase, but down the road I will need to get my own workstation that will be capable of running CS5, Blender, After Affects and more of such... And, yes I'm still new with those programs, I've practiced on Elements & Pinnacle Studio 15 for about a year+ now. I thought about buying a Mac Pro (because they have rows of them at school), but after some research I quickly found out this isn't the time to switch to Mac Pro (if ever), and those machine are damn pricey! For that same money I should be able to build a better working system that has far more upgrade & tweak possibilities in the future!
I used to be an active FPS gamer once (long time ago when I was able to play AA v1 up to Overmatch on a 1.8Ghz Core 2 Duo CPU with a single Geforce 7500LE GPU), but nowadays the only game I still like to play sometimes is AA3 (bridgejunky and I haven't tried any of the newer FPS games yet Wich I now run on a Intel i7 2600 CPU and a Asus P8H67-M PRO MoBo with a GT 520 GPU. I would like the new set-up to be able the run BF3 with ease... I would also like to play & learn about over-clocking, and try it myself, so the new rig must be able to allow me to do so. My current MoBo, CPU, RAM and GPU will be installed at my mom's (she now has my old PC:-(
Here is the list I came up with:
PSU: Corsair Pro Series Gold 1200Watt - So I can add more hardware down the road and have room to tune up for gaming and such). I did a test somewhere (can't remember the site, but I filled in how it will be in 1-2 years) and the result was 1080Watt
Case: Carbide Series 500R Mid-Tower Case - I can't seem to find the case's form factor if the PSU-size will fit in the mid-size case? (Feel so newb saying this...)
CPU: Intel i7 2600K
CPU Cooling: Corsair Cooling Hydro Series H100
MoBo: Asus P8P67 WS Revolution
GPU: - Don't know yet, I think it will be Nvidia. (Might be a Quadro 2000 or 4000, don't know whats the best price/performance.)
RAM: - I don't know yet either, haven't figured out how to know what type works best with the P8P67 WS Revolution!? (And have still to read about over-clocking RAM.)
I also think I should have the Win OS on a fast SSD (flash or DRAM?) and use HighRev HDD's for storage. (Still need to read more about this.)
Does anyone have some good & honest advice for me?
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