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Yet another hardware build

Apr 22, 2012 3:09 PM

I've been reading over these forums for several weeks and it's been incredibly helpful. I think I've put together a good build for the creative suite, but I'd love if some of the more knowledgeable guys here would check it out for me. Any comments or suggestions would be fantastic. Thank you.

 

 

AZZA Solano 1000 Black/Black Japanese SECC Steel/Metal mesh in front ATX Full Tower Computer Case

   

EVGA 012-P3-1570-AR GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

   

Rosewill LIGHTNING Series LIGHTNING-1000 1000W ATX12V/EPS12V 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active-PFC Power Supply

 

4x CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)

 

ASUS P9X79 WS LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 SSI CEB Intel Motherboard

 

Intel Core i7-3930K Sandy Bridge-E 3.2GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 2011 130W Six-Core Desktop Processor BX80619i73930K

 

RC-1231ML-2G PCI Express SATA II (3.0Gb/s) Controller Card

 

Intel 520 Series Cherryville SSDSC2CW120A3K5 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

 

6x Western Digital Caviar Black 1 TB SATA III 7200 RPM 64 MB Cache

826 Views   7 Replies   Latest reply: tonylives, Nov 13, 2012 7:31 PM
 
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  • Jim Simon
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    1. Jim Simon,
    Apr 22, 2012 3:35 PM   in reply to Paradol
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    That's a reeeally nice system.  http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/2/24847/831166-drooling_homer_small.gif

     
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  • RjL190365
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    2. RjL190365,
    Apr 22, 2012 5:04 PM   in reply to Paradol
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    I would change out the RAM: That Corsair Vengeance kit, like most other RAM kits with 8GB sticks, uses Micron ICs that have major compatibility issues with the memory controllers in the i7-3930K and the i7-3820. Furthermore, the i7-3930K and the i7-3820 needs the DIMM voltages to be kept no higher than 1.35V (the Vengeance kit runs at 1.5V).

     
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  • Harm Millaard
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    3. Harm Millaard,
    Apr 23, 2012 12:18 AM   in reply to Paradol
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    RC-1231ML-2G PCI Express SATA II (3.0Gb/s) Controller Card

     

    Why not an 1882iX card? Better IOP, SATA3 support. It would be a better card with those WD Caviar Blacks. I assume you only want to use these as stand alone disks or in raid0, because these disks are not very suitable for parity arrays. If you want to use parity raid levels, and that would be logical with either a 1231ML or a 1882iX, consider Seagate Baracuda XT or Hitachi 7K3000 disks.

     
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  • Paradol
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    4. Paradol,
    Apr 24, 2012 2:53 PM   in reply to Paradol
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    Thanks, guys.

     

    A couple follow-up questions. I was looking to do raid0 because adobe recommends it, but parity raids seemed to help performance a lot more. What would you recommend? Also, I will change to a 1882iX, but out of curiosity why are Seagate Baracuda's better than WD Caviar Blacks for parity raids? Which raid level would you recommend?

     

    The other question is I was hoping to get 64gigs of ram into the system. If the ram I choose, along with other 8GB sticks, are all 1.35v, am I stuck with getting 4GB sticks?

     

    Thanks a lot for looking over my build. I really appreciate it.

     
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  • Harm Millaard
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    5. Harm Millaard,
    Apr 24, 2012 2:58 PM   in reply to Paradol
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    Have a look at the featured discussion at the top of the page. If explains or links to articles about the different raid levels, the WD TLER problems, etc.

     
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  • Paradol
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    6. Paradol,
    Apr 24, 2012 3:42 PM   in reply to Harm Millaard
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    Reading through that now. Very informative. Any suggestions on the RAM situation?

     
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  • tonylives
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    7. tonylives,
    Nov 13, 2012 7:31 PM   in reply to Paradol
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    Just curious, how did you find the AZZA case over time.  Do you like that brand/model?

     
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