Please Advice on my Potential Order
StarMarc Mar 11, 2012 11:08 PMEver since purchasing the I7 3930k chip 3 weeks ago, i've been literally too busy with projects to research and buy the rest of my new workstation. I've now found a small window in my schedule to finally get this thing done, problem is i've again forgotten much of what I learned these past 2 months. So if any of you more knowledgeable folks would be so kind as to give me your opinions and suggestions on the system i'm about to buy, I would greatly appreciate your time and knowledge!
Right now, I have collecting dust: i7 3930k chip, Thermaltake 1050W 80Gold certified, win 7, production premium cs5, autodesk entertainment creation suite.
My budget is $3000.00 Presently am doing only Canon 5D stuff, but am planning on R3d later in the year. All these prices and products are from newegg (though I may be buying from amazon since I have prime).
$549.99 - EVGA 03G-P3-1595-AR GeForce GTX 580 (Fermi) Classified ULTRA 3072MB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
(note: I see the there's a new GTX coming out at the end of this month, i need my system to be operational by this month, should I just buy a cheaper gtx 560?? and wait??)
$369.99 - ASUS P9X79 DELUXE LGA 2011 Intel X79 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS (although I prefer a board with an iEEE port)
2 x $129.99 (for a total of 32 GB of ram) - G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory Model F3-14900CL9Q-16GBXL
$449.99 - areca ARC-1222 PCIe x8 SATA / SAS RAID Card
5 x $109.99 - Western Digital RE4 WD5003ABYX 500GB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
(note: planning on doing a RAID 3 data drive with 4 drives with 1 backup, also these drives are on sale until 3/12 so if these are good to go I would like to buy them immediately)
$169.99 - OCZ Vertex 3 VTX3-25SAT3-120G 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
(program drive)
$159.99 - HITACHI Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723020BLA642 (0f12115) 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
(the allpurpose drive)
$129.99 - Antec DF-85 Black Steel / Plastic ATX Full Tower Computer Case
TOTAL: $2638.88


