oracle3001
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I am looking to build a new PC, that will be used for playing online poker and programming work for a PhD in computer vision.
For those that don't know, on the poker front, it means a box that can work extremely quickly with multiple extremely large postgres db's (these db's are often many GB's in size and are being called upon constantly while playing online poker). It is absolutely crucial that I get as fast performance as possible.
On the PhD front, going to be lots of 3D, video / image processing, and using techniques such as particle filtering. I will definitely looking to utilise CUDA. Again, performance is extremely important, when running heavy math based programs created in Matlab and C++.
Am looking to modestly overclock the machine, mostly to maximum the performance for the above two tasks. I also might want my machine to be able to do a bit of gaming and finally that I am far enough ahead of the curve that the machine lasts the whole of my PhD i.e 3-4 years
In terms of budget, I am in the UK and was looking at spending about £1000 (so roughly $1500), but am a bit flexible for the right parts. Having had a quick look, I can get the parts selected below for around that price.
So far I have selected the following selection of parts:
CPU - Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz
Motherboard - Asus P8Z77-V DELUXE
Memory - Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz
Cooler - Phanteks PH-TC14PE CPU Cooler
PSU - Corsair Professional Series Gold AX850
GPU - Nvidia GTX 660 or GTX 660 Ti
Existing components I intend to continue using,
Hard Drive - Crucial m4 128gb SSD & WD Caviar Black 2 TB
Case - Cooler Master Praetorian 730
CD / DVD - Generic
Would anybody make any suggestions for a different components (I definitely want that CPU and fairly set on the Asus board, but everything else is still a bit up in the air)?
I'm not really up to speed on the state of graphics cards these days. I definitely need an nvidia as I intend to use CUDA and can't justify a 690 beast at the moment. I know that the 660Ti is basically a cut down 670, where as the standard 660 runs off a different chip, but I don't really know much about the likely performance difference. As stated above I will be looking to shove a load of operations onto the GPU using CUDA.
In terms of RAM I am 100% LP will fit under the cooler, but obviously this comes at a price / performance hit, does anybody know if one can fit standard / tall profile RAM under it? And if so, what other options are good? G.Skill RipJawsX 16GB? Also, how much performance difference does 1866MHz vs 1600Mhz RAM make?
I am somewhat concerned if my case be big enough to house the new motherboard / CPU and what is a rather large CPU cooler? If it won't fit, any suggestions on a decent case.
And have I forgotten anything obviously from my list of components?
For those that don't know, on the poker front, it means a box that can work extremely quickly with multiple extremely large postgres db's (these db's are often many GB's in size and are being called upon constantly while playing online poker). It is absolutely crucial that I get as fast performance as possible.
On the PhD front, going to be lots of 3D, video / image processing, and using techniques such as particle filtering. I will definitely looking to utilise CUDA. Again, performance is extremely important, when running heavy math based programs created in Matlab and C++.
Am looking to modestly overclock the machine, mostly to maximum the performance for the above two tasks. I also might want my machine to be able to do a bit of gaming and finally that I am far enough ahead of the curve that the machine lasts the whole of my PhD i.e 3-4 years
In terms of budget, I am in the UK and was looking at spending about £1000 (so roughly $1500), but am a bit flexible for the right parts. Having had a quick look, I can get the parts selected below for around that price.
So far I have selected the following selection of parts:
CPU - Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz
Motherboard - Asus P8Z77-V DELUXE
Memory - Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz
Cooler - Phanteks PH-TC14PE CPU Cooler
PSU - Corsair Professional Series Gold AX850
GPU - Nvidia GTX 660 or GTX 660 Ti
Existing components I intend to continue using,
Hard Drive - Crucial m4 128gb SSD & WD Caviar Black 2 TB
Case - Cooler Master Praetorian 730
CD / DVD - Generic
Would anybody make any suggestions for a different components (I definitely want that CPU and fairly set on the Asus board, but everything else is still a bit up in the air)?
I'm not really up to speed on the state of graphics cards these days. I definitely need an nvidia as I intend to use CUDA and can't justify a 690 beast at the moment. I know that the 660Ti is basically a cut down 670, where as the standard 660 runs off a different chip, but I don't really know much about the likely performance difference. As stated above I will be looking to shove a load of operations onto the GPU using CUDA.
In terms of RAM I am 100% LP will fit under the cooler, but obviously this comes at a price / performance hit, does anybody know if one can fit standard / tall profile RAM under it? And if so, what other options are good? G.Skill RipJawsX 16GB? Also, how much performance difference does 1866MHz vs 1600Mhz RAM make?
I am somewhat concerned if my case be big enough to house the new motherboard / CPU and what is a rather large CPU cooler? If it won't fit, any suggestions on a decent case.
And have I forgotten anything obviously from my list of components?