PC Mayhem - New System specs.

[Mayhem]

I should be putting this bad boy together this weekend or the next.

New system build ... Most of the parts are in.

LIAN LI PC-75B Black windowed Aluminum ATX Full Tower Case (Modded) (Already owned)

Corsair 850W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (Already owned)

Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz LGA 1150 (Received)

Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - CPU Cooler w/Fan (Received)

ASRock H97 PRO4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (Ordered) (Shipped)

G.Skill Trident X Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory CL7 (Received)

GIGABYTE Radeon R9 390 Gaming 1 SOC 8GB 512-Bit GDDR5
PCI Express 3.0 Video Card (Received)

Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1800 Tuner Card PCIe-1 (Already owned)

Creative Labs Sound Blaster Z Sound Card PCI-e (Received)

U.S. Robotics USR5610C V.92 Performance Pro Modem 56Kbps PCI (Already owned)

2 Samsung 500GB 850 Evo 2.5" SATA III Solid State Drives (Raid 0) (Received)

Toshiba 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (May go to another system replaced by 3 hitachi deskstar 2TB 7200 rpm ent HDD in raid 5) (Received)

LG WH16NS40 Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer (Received)

3 Dell U2412M 1920x1200 60Hz 24.0" IPS Monitors (Already owned)


This is replacing my old System which is a Intel Core2 Duo E6750 2.66 ghz with 3GB ram with an Nvidia 8800gt.

[Bellator]

Mayhem, I must say I'm curious about your modem choice.
    I should have this one finished by tomorrow night.
Here's mine. Any thoughts or comments welcome.

   INTEL SYSTEM LGA 1150   
OS System   Item#: N82E16832116992   $139.00
   Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-bit - OEM   
      
Case   Item#: N82E16811139015     $109.00
   Corsair Vengeance Series C70 Military Green Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case   
      
PSU   Item#: N82E16817139011    $149.00
   CORSAIR HX Series HX850 850W ATX12V 2.3 / EPS12V 2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply     
      
CPU   Item#:  N82E16819117369   $340.00
   Intel Core i7-4790K Devil’s Canyon Quad-Core 4.0 GHz LGA 1150 BX80646I74790K Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4600                                   
      
Mother Board   Item#:  N82E16813132507   $260.00
   ASUS SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1/USB 3.1 LGA 1150 Intel Z97 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 ATX     
      
Hard Drive   Item#: N82E16822236244   $129.99
   Western Digital WD VelociRaptor WD5000HHTZ 500GB 10000 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive - OEM   
      
CD / DVD    Item#: N82E16827135240   $27.99
   ASUS DVD Burner 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 12X DVD+R DL 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 24X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM Black SATA Model DRW-24B3ST/BLK/G/AS    
      
Memory   Item#: N82E16820233237   $250.00
   CORSAIR Vengeance 32GB (4 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 Desktop Memory Model CMZ32GX3M4X1866C10    
      
Video Card   Item#: N82E16814121978   $209.00
   ASUS Radeon R9 380 STRIX-R9380-DC2OC-4GD5-GAMING 4GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card   
      
Case Fans   Item#: N82E16835181021   $25.00
   Corsair Air Series AF120 Quiet Edition CO-9050002-WW 120mm Twin Pack High Airflow   

                                                                                    Total--   $1,638.98

<S> Bellator

[Mayhem]

I've had that modem for Years USR still makes and sells it. I have it for Faxing and I got it becuase it has an on board hardware controller that at the time was one of the few that worked in Linux and BSD.

Your system looks good if your gaming, streaming, photo/video editing, and overclocking by looking at your system build I'm assuming you plan on overclocking if not your CPU MEM and MB are overkill

If you have no intentions of doing anything other than gaming I would go with a Core i5-4690K.
Just gaming without overclocking and I would go with  Core i5-4590 and an H97 Motherboard.

If you need to do the stuff that I have to do and you want to overclock than your good to go with the i7-4790K

The reason I went with the Xeon E3 1231 V3 was I need to run Virtual Machines and Compile data for school, Photo edit and game, I will be using Discrete graphics and I don't plan on overclocking (bad experiences with the Prescott line). budget wise the Xeon E3 1231 V3 is a i7 4790 without an APU down clocked to i7 4770 speeds for about 2/3rds to 3/4 the cost and it slightly outperforms the  i7 4779.

I would ditch the WD raptor and get a Samsung 850 evo 500gb ssd for just a little bit more money or a crucial bx100. SSD are the current speed king. My understanding is there is no Mechanical hard drive that can saturate the SAtA II bus let alone the SATA III.

I'm using 2 SSds in Raid 0 because I want the speed. I only run my OS and Programs/apps off of the main partition, everything else goes on a mechanical drive with a backup.

[BaldEagl]

Why did you choose a Xeon Haswell over the more common Haswell?

[Mayhem]

Why did you choose a Xeon Haswell over the more common Haswell?

The reason I went with the Xeon E3 1231 V3 was I need to run Virtual Machines and Compile data for school, Photo edit and game, I will be using Discrete graphics and I don't plan on overclocking (bad experiences with the Prescott line). budget wise the Xeon E3 1231 V3 is a i7 4790 without an APU down clocked to i7 4770 speeds for about 2/3rds to 3/4 the cost and it slightly outperforms the  i7 4770v (corrected was 4779).

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Xeon-E3-1231-v3-vs-Intel-Core-i7-4770

https://youtu.be/yQ59vHSFfZA

https://youtu.be/nBIfDEcozqM

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-4.html

[Tumor]

Hey, how you liking that ASUS R9 380?  I just ordered one.

[Mayhem]

Hey, how you liking that ASUS R9 380?  I just ordered one.

Actually I have the Gigabyte Gaming G1 R9 390 OC.

I like it it's about the same speed and cost as the GTX 970.

The 390 is slightly faster in most games were as the 970 wins in few but we aren't talking about big margin wins for either card. The R9 390 sucks allot more power than the 970. The version I have has 1 Dvi-D Dual link, 1 HDMI, and 3 Digital Display Ports. I have 3 Dell 24" U2412M monitors.

[Tumor]

Crap... misread it.  Well, I'm on a fixed budget so I got the ASUS R9 380 Strix 4G.  I hope it's good... but at any rate it'll beat my 6870 that just went tits-up.

[save]

Get a SSD drive for your OS, its really make a machine shine during startup, and for most used games/ applications.
Also I would spend my money on a GTX970 instead, price/performance is really good.

[Mayhem]

Get a SSD drive for your OS, its really make a machine shine during startup, and for most used games/ applications.
Also I would spend my money on a GTX970 instead, price/performance is really good.

I got my r9 390 for $300 at the time the 970 was about 30 bucks more. Biggest reason I would go for a 970 is power consumption. Biggest reason I would take the 390 is Eyefinity and PLP mode.

You really can't go wrong with either one but if you aren't pushing at least a 750 watt single rail power supply and a multi monitor set up I would go with the gtx 970. Unfortunately Tumor is budget locked so he is looking at the gtx 960 or the R9 380 in which case the result is about the same, I would probably lean a little more towards the gtx 960 but toms hardware recommends the the r9 380.

The SSD statement is spot on ... on my old system I saw a huge improvement by just adding a single silicon power 120gb SSD. My new system runs 2 Samsung 850 Evo 500gb SSD drives in raid 0 (stripe set/striped volume).

[Chalenge]

I would suggest the Asus Z97 Pro instead, so that you could use the M.2 SSD and bypass a few extra seconds start time. I mean since it seems so snappy to you and all. I use a SATA III bound SSD myself and by comparison the M.2 method is just better all the way around (except cost of course).

That said I do not see anything wrong with sticking to nothing but HDDs.

Aside from that nothing really pops out at me. Nice sound card choice.

[Mayhem]

I would suggest the Asus Z97 Pro instead, so that you could use the M.2 SSD and bypass a few extra seconds start time. I mean since it seems so snappy to you and all. I use a SATA III bound SSD myself and by comparison the M.2 method is just better all the way around (except cost of course).

That said I do not see anything wrong with sticking to nothing but HDDs.

Aside from that nothing really pops out at me. Nice sound card choice.

Was that directed at Tumor, Bellator, or Me?

I already have my system built.

I only needed one PCIe 3.0 X16 slot, I can't and don't want to overclock, and I found that 2 Samsung Evo 850 500GB Sata SSDs in raid 0 where a better option from a price vs performance standpoint over m.2  That's why I went with the MB I did, and it only cost me $70 bucks.

M.2 Sata drives are still limited to the Sata bus limitations. PCIE M.2 drives are the ones that really get the performance boost. I think the Asus z97pro does infact support m.2 in both both PCIE and SATA modes. However ....

I have sequential read/write of 1050/1022 MB/s 4k Random read/write 384.7/350.0 MB/s (Remember I'm running 2 drives in raid 0 so speeds are double)So I'm getting a 1tb partition with PCIE m.2 speeds for about 1/4 the cost.

The sound card was to replace my X-Fi pci fatal1ty platinum champion edition. The X-FI sucks (3 audio modes is a bad joke) compared to my Audigy 2 ZS Platinum and I wanted a simple sound card that's better than on-board with DD live, DTS, SPDIF (I have the Logitech Z-5500 speakers) and I want to use my cases HD audio ports. My set up allows me to run 3 sets of headsets 2 of which are RF wireless.

[Chalenge]

Yes, I'm talking about the PCIe M.2, which DOES NOT use a SATA controller and offers 2GB/s, which is three times faster than SATA III (600 MB/s). That would still offer nearly twice the performance you are reporting, although I think it practice it actually gets about 1.8 GB/s.

For price/performance reasons you made the right choice.