Proposed Mother of All Builds (MOAB)

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Krisnatharok Caveat Emptor Premium join:2009-02-11 Earth Orbit kudos:7	Proposed Mother of All Builds (MOAB) I already half some of this stuff--the CPU cooler, the case, the SSD/HDD. Working on trading up on PSUs. Really looking for feedback on a good mobo/ram to go with the 3770K. It's going to be a beast. This was fun to price out at least. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks CPU: Intel Core i7-3770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($229.99 @ Microcenter) CPU Cooler: Corsair H100 92.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($107.28 @ TigerDirect) Motherboard: Asus Maximus V Formula/ThunderFX EATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($319.99 @ SuperBiiz) Memory: Corsair Vengeance 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($214.99 @ Newegg) Storage: Western Digital Red 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive ($145.99 @ Amazon) Storage: Samsung 840 Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($279.99 @ Adorama) Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 3GB Video Card (2-Way CrossFire) ($445.91 @ Newegg) Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 3GB Video Card (2-Way CrossFire) ($445.91 @ Newegg) Case: Rosewill THOR V2-W ATX Full Tower Case ($119.99 @ Newegg) Power Supply: Corsair Professional 1050W 80 PLUS Silver Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($199.99 @ Amazon) Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($135.97 @ Outlet PC) Total: $2646.00 (Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.) (Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-03-08 15:29 EST-0500) -- Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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eve Premium join:2003-01-02 Alexandria, VA	Why not go X79 for this build?
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DarkLogix Texan and Proud Premium join:2008-10-23 Baytown, TX kudos:3	reply to Krisnatharok If you wanta go full nuts then go with the 8 core xeon instead of the 4 core i7 (about 8 times the price but awesome is awesome.) -- »Death Star Petition
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Krisnatharok Caveat Emptor Premium join:2009-02-11 Earth Orbit kudos:7	reply to eve Sandy Bridge is old, IB-E doesn't seem to be coming out until Nov-Dec, and with the right cooling this can be clocked much higher than a 3820 can go. -- Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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Krisnatharok Caveat Emptor Premium join:2009-02-11 Earth Orbit kudos:7	reply to DarkLogix said by DarkLogix: If you wanta go full nuts then go with the 8 core xeon instead of the 4 core i7 (about 8 times the price but awesome is awesome.) There are limits to awesomeness, then. This isn't an industrial MOAB, but a residential one. -- Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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eve Premium join:2003-01-02 Alexandria, VA	reply to Krisnatharok Fair enough. Screw the H100 cooler ... go for a XSPC Raystorm kit!
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Krisnatharok Caveat Emptor Premium join:2009-02-11 Earth Orbit kudos:7	I've already got the H100, but I am considering leaving it in my old case (my x58 is getting turned into a VM machine for the wife). Having never done custom, full-loop WC before... I am very tempted, but would need more info before committing to that plunge. The board itself has an integrated water block on the VRM modules, so that may make more sense... -- Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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El Quintron Resident Mouth Breather Premium join:2008-04-28 Etobicoke, ON kudos:2 Reviews: ·TekSavvy DSL ·WIND Mobile ·voip.ms	reply to Krisnatharok Wasn't it you that said that Reddit was all over the Gigabyte UP4 mobos? Don't get me wrong that Asus board is drop dead sexy, but all things being equal I'm curious why you chose this one. -- Support Bacteria -- It's the Only Culture Some People Have
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Ghastlyone Premium join:2009-01-07 Las Vegas, NV kudos:2 1 edit	reply to Krisnatharok That'll be an awesome setup. I'm going to do something similar on my next build down the road. 500gb SSD? Yes please! Kris, that Rosewill Thor case you got, does it come with or except 140mm fans? I'd consider going with an H110 if you can. Much much larger radiator and cooling for only 10 dollars more. That's the cooler I'm giong to upgrade to here probably when I order my GPU. Regarding your Corsair PSU. Check out their main website, because they sell all the nice single sleeved PSU wires right there.
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Krisnatharok Caveat Emptor Premium join:2009-02-11 Earth Orbit kudos:7	reply to El Quintron said by El Quintron: Wasn't it you that said that Reddit was all over the Gigabyte UP4 mobos? Don't get me wrong that Asus board is drop dead sexy, but all things being equal I'm curious why you chose this one. That was for x79, yeah. The Max VFT is $320. The Gig UP7 is $400, and the Sniper3 is $270. For splitting the difference, you sure get a lot of awfully nice features, simple OCing, and more importantly, the two PCI slots between the first and second PCIe 3.0 slots, letting me use two 2.5 slot Vapor-X 7970s. -- Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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El Quintron Resident Mouth Breather Premium join:2008-04-28 Etobicoke, ON kudos:2 Reviews: ·TekSavvy DSL ·WIND Mobile ·voip.ms 1 edit	said by Krisnatharok: For splitting the difference, you sure get a lot of awfully nice features, simple OCing, and more importantly, the two PCI slots between the first and second PCIe 3.0 slots, letting me use two 2.5 slot Vapor-X 7970s. Duly noted, The Asus boards make OCing dead easy, even for someone with no experience, mine has a setting called "optimized defaults" that OCs it out of the box. I'm going to have to stop looking at your threads because everytime I do, I want run out and get more hardware. -- Support Bacteria -- It's the Only Culture Some People Have
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DarkLogix Texan and Proud Premium join:2008-10-23 Baytown, TX kudos:3	reply to Krisnatharok said by Krisnatharok: said by DarkLogix: If you wanta go full nuts then go with the 8 core xeon instead of the 4 core i7 (about 8 times the price but awesome is awesome.) There are limits to awesomeness, then. This isn't an industrial MOAB, but a residential one. Industrial would be Dual Xeon w/ 256GB ram and dual (maybe tipple) Titans. (I wouldn't go to 512GB because last I looked you have to go to dual ranked and slower speed ram to make that 256 to 512 jump.) Then with win7 pro/ult/ent limited to 192gb ram you'd have to use win8 to use the full 256gb or use 2008R2 Trust me a Pro MOAB could easily hit $200,000 (hay any chance a kickstarter like project would work to build such a beast? -- »Death Star Petition
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DarkLogix Texan and Proud Premium join:2008-10-23 Baytown, TX kudos:3	reply to Krisnatharok said by Krisnatharok: Sandy Bridge is old, IB-E doesn't seem to be coming out until Nov-Dec, and with the right cooling this can be clocked much higher than a 3820 can go. SB might be old but what of SB-E ? (quad channel 1600 ram) -- »Death Star Petition
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Krisnatharok Caveat Emptor Premium join:2009-02-11 Earth Orbit kudos:7	said by DarkLogix: said by Krisnatharok: Sandy Bridge is old, IB-E doesn't seem to be coming out until Nov-Dec, and with the right cooling this can be clocked much higher than a 3820 can go. SB might be old but what of SB-E ? (quad channel 1600 ram) Yeah I meant SB-E. -- Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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Krisnatharok Caveat Emptor Premium join:2009-02-11 Earth Orbit kudos:7	reply to Ghastlyone said by Ghastlyone: That'll be an awesome setup. I'm going to do something similar on my next build down the road. 500gb SSD? Yes please! Kris, that Rosewill Thor case you got, does it come with or except 140mm fans? I'd consider going with an H110 if you can. Much much larger radiator and cooling for only 10 dollars more. That's the cooler I'm giong to upgrade to here probably when I order my GPU. It does indeed accept 140mm. -- Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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Krisnatharok Caveat Emptor Premium join:2009-02-11 Earth Orbit kudos:7	reply to DarkLogix said by DarkLogix: Trust me a Pro MOAB could easily hit $200,000 (hay any chance a kickstarter like project would work to build such a beast? Not within the context of PC gaming. Diminishing returns would kick in rapidly. -- Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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Krisnatharok Caveat Emptor Premium join:2009-02-11 Earth Orbit kudos:7	reply to Ghastlyone said by Ghastlyone: That'll be an awesome setup. I'm going to do something similar on my next build down the road. 500gb SSD? Yes please! Same drive is on sale for $280: »techreport.com/news/24472/deal-o···and-more -- Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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DarkLogix Texan and Proud Premium join:2008-10-23 Baytown, TX kudos:3 3 edits	reply to Krisnatharok said by Krisnatharok: said by DarkLogix: Trust me a Pro MOAB could easily hit $200,000 (hay any chance a kickstarter like project would work to build such a beast? Not within the context of PC gaming. Diminishing returns would kick in rapidly. Well leave off the 4k monitors and I think it might get into the $50k range. Checking now Ok looks like to get a fully loaded HP Z820 with the following its just shy of $30,000 Dual 3.10GHz 8core xeons 256GB ECC 1600 ram (8 channel) dual Nvidia Quadro K5000 (w/ 4GB vram) (basically the quadro ver of the GTX680 w/ 4GB) 6x 300GB SSD's in raid 6 1125w 90% eff powersupply 5/5/5 warranty Toss in 2x ZR30w and you're just about at $30k and its would be the most beast system currently buildable I'd then addon a qnap nas for mass/long term storage (instead of putting a large HDD in the system just use a iscsi lun and have even more storage) and since it'd be a MOAB I'd get the 10 drive 1079 pro and put in a dual 10gig nic as well as max the qnap on ram. -- »Death Star Petition
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McBrain BRB Face Melting join:2010-05-06 Kalimdor kudos:2	reply to Ghastlyone said by Ghastlyone: Kris, that Rosewill Thor case you got, does it come with or except 140mm fans? I'd consider going with an H110 if you can. Much much larger radiator and cooling for only 10 dollars more. That's the cooler I'm giong to upgrade to here probably when I order my GPU. The Thor comes with 1 140mm fan (rear exhaust), but the top of the case (where I have my rad mounted) will accept 1 240mm fan, 2 120mm fans, or 2 140mm fans. So there is a spot to mount the H110 radiator in the top (assuming he doesn't have the motherboard issue I ran into). -- Let me put it this way. Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?...Morons.
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Gordo74 Premium join:2003-10-28 Monroeville, PA	reply to Krisnatharok My personal opinion: Go with a slightly cheaper mobo. No need to go soup to nuts on the motherboard. The UD5P TH is what I would get (cheaper by $50) As you yourself have stated, no need to go over 1600 RAM speed. Bump it down and save some cash. PSU - No need for 1k+. Just go with a gold 850 (personally I like Seasonic X850, but that's just me). Save a bit more there and it'll be more efficient for this build.
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