With the exception that I would have another, lower end video card. I would do a bare bones Debian install with Xen, use IOMMU to pass through the GPUs. The low end one to a Linux VM for work purposes, the high end one to a Windows VM for maximum gaming. Pass through the mouse and keyboard and sound card to the Windows VM as well and use Synergy to share the keyboard and mouse with the other Linux VM. It would be my ultimate home office in a box. I've been wanting to build this for months. If I only had the capital.
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(I got a review copy of Adobe CS 5 that came on disks... disks... and this was less than a year ago)
I got full copies of Maya 2013 and AutoCad Design Suite 2013. Both came on 16GB USB keys.
WUT!? Just to toss this in there...My copy of Maya 2013 came in disc format, and oddly enough I have a copy of Digicel Flipbook on disc and a 300 frame max (mobile copy) on a USB key.
Nobody gave me a roadmap! Clearly makes this the best time to upgrade.
(In reality: if I kept the cash on hand I had, I'd owe money to papa IRS, and my current PC has had intermittent crashes for a while, so it was a good excuse. )
The worse part is the monitor issues may not be calibration related - I'd honestly bank on that being at least partially viewing-angle-related. Those monitors weren't made to be vertical....
Ordered yesterday at 1:30, arriving this morning. I do love a small country.
There was just enough room in the top of the case to actually do a push-pull configuration on the H100i's rad - and while they recommend bringing air in from outside for best results, the dynamics of four fans pulling in and one pushing out just doesn't work, and I don't want to suck dust in from outside. We shall see how this does in practice, though.
I thought the Raven RV-02 was a great case when I was working with it, but I realized just how much better the 650D is when I realized I needed to extract the entire motherboard to get to the drive cage to release one of my old hard drives. This... this is better. :P
I'll be running benches later, though I noticed the WEI score it gave me was atrocious for my 'primary hard drive' (should be the Vertex 4) - everything is 7.7 or 7.9, and the drive score is 5.9.
I also noticed the H100i appears to feed pretty loud electronic noise into the mobo's sound system. I can get around it by lowering my speakers' volume and upping application volume, but it might be another reason to look at a dedicated (isolated) sound card, as well.
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This is my reasonable max: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/yc4a
With the exception that I would have another, lower end video card. I would do a bare bones Debian install with Xen, use IOMMU to pass through the GPUs. The low end one to a Linux VM for work purposes, the high end one to a Windows VM for maximum gaming. Pass through the mouse and keyboard and sound card to the Windows VM as well and use Synergy to share the keyboard and mouse with the other Linux VM. It would be my ultimate home office in a box. I've been wanting to build this for months. If I only had the capital.
1x 270127 - Processor Intel Core i7 3770K (3,5GHz)
1x 161657 - Moederbord Intel Gigabyte GA-Z77X-U
1x 351202 - Corsair Hydro Series H100i CPU Cooler
1x 374983 - Corsair Case Obsidian 650D
1x 1352461 - OCZ Vertex 4 - 256GB
2x 265800 - Western Digital 2TB S-ATA3 64MB
2x 950856 - Corsair 2x8GB DDR3 1866
1x 950598 - Seasonic 1000W PSU 1000-XP Platinum
2x FX-797A-TDBC - HD7970 Double Dissipation BLACK
With any luck, delivery tomorrow. Whee...
LIES AND SLANDER of the highest degree.
(In reality: if I kept the cash on hand I had, I'd owe money to papa IRS, and my current PC has had intermittent crashes for a while, so it was a good excuse.
and only one SSD? as @Canti would say, smalltime
Decided I don't need monitors atm. Still on the list, though.
personally i would have waited to see what haswell and hd8970 brought to the table, but i can understand avoiding the taxes
-ASUS Sabertooth X79 LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
-Intel Core i7-3930K Sandy Bridge-E 3.2GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 2011 130W Six-Core Desktop Processor BX80619i73930K
-CORSAIR Hydro Series H100i Water Cooler
-CORSAIR Vengeance 64GB (8 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 Desktop Memory Model CMZ64GX3M8A1600C9
-AMD RAMDisk 40GB
-2x EVGA 04G-P4-2690-KR GeForce GTX 690 4GB 512-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
-SAMSUNG 840 Pro Series MZ-7PD256BW 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
-OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 series RVD3X2-FHPX4-480G PCI-E 480GB PCI-Express 2.0 x4 MLC Internal Solid State Drive
-Western Digital Red WD30EFRX 3TB IntelliPower 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
-CORSAIR AX1200i 1200W Digital ATX12V v2.31 and EPS 2.92 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS PLATINUM Certified Full Modular Active PFC Power Supply
-SilverStone Temjin Series TJ-04 Black Aluminum Case
-LG 30" 4K Monitor and 2x Dell 24" Monitors for a PLP setup
about $12k
PLP in case you didn't know
also: wtf two keyboards?
Ordered yesterday at 1:30, arriving this morning. I do love a small country.
This is a clean build, though. I'll get pics up shortly.
I thought the Raven RV-02 was a great case when I was working with it, but I realized just how much better the 650D is when I realized I needed to extract the entire motherboard to get to the drive cage to release one of my old hard drives. This... this is better. :P
I'll be running benches later, though I noticed the WEI score it gave me was atrocious for my 'primary hard drive' (should be the Vertex 4) - everything is 7.7 or 7.9, and the drive score is 5.9.
I also noticed the H100i appears to feed pretty loud electronic noise into the mobo's sound system. I can get around it by lowering my speakers' volume and upping application volume, but it might be another reason to look at a dedicated (isolated) sound card, as well.