please justify to me why i should build this machine
Asus P9X79 Deluxe mobo,
64 gig of quad channel 1600 ram
a fractal define xl case
i7 3820 overclocked to 4.8ghz
3 120 gig ssd’s 2 in raid 0 and one as an ssd cach
1 3tb drive
3 1280MB EVGA GTX 560 Ti Classified in 3 way sli
Noctua NH-D14-2011 Dual Radiator Cooler with PWM fans
1kw modular psu
then just a blue ray drive
comes in just over 2k. I will use it for a bit of video production music production, some gaming. Also do pen testing so often run 4 or 5 virtual machines. Maybe its a little overkill so please help me justify to myself why I should build it
Also, 3 SSDs seems like way overkill, even for pen testing. I think one would be enough, 2 is even hard to justify. Two 2TB HDDs might work better, one for audio production, the other for personal files. Thats just the route I would go. Also, id personally ditch the Noctura and go with a Corsair radiator instead. I dont know why you would need a dual radiator.
Thing is…how long till its outdated?
Will you make $$ off of it?
Will you be able to upgrade easily once there is newer hardware out there?
Can you afford it?
Will you honestly use it to its potential? Or will it be more bragging rights?
Seriously now…
I wanted people to persuade me to buy it the reason for the dual radiator is that I wanted to stay away from water cooling but have alot of overclocking headroom. It uses a brand new chipset and there will be ivy bridge processors coming out for it over the next few years it also supports pci-e3. 64 gig ram is maxing it out.
Do I need something powerful yes do I need soothing this powerful not really. There is stuff id like to do that this computer wouldn’t be quick enough to do. However that would be research that I aint ready for yet tho. I would like it as bragging rights and supports 1600 monitors which id like 3 of then a 50inch tv mounted on another wall. I will make money off it but no more than 1k pc, yea got the money.
not sure about the gpu setup atm, not sure if id be better off with 2 higher speced cards rather than 3
Seriously, with the list of stuff you’ll be doing, yeah I guess you can justify it .. just depends how serious you are into each of the said tasks though, not much point in a high spec video machine if you’re just editing tutorials for youtube.
The SSD’s do seem overkill TBH as does the tri-sli and would probably go for a few 10k Raptors in Raid for regular storage and OS on a single larger SSD.
If you have the money - go for it, with the exception of the SSD’s (which I think is unessesary) looks like a savage spec machine.
If you need us to persuade you then maybe re-think it. But I know when I get set on wanting something, thats what I want lol. But you dont need all that for pen-testing, I do it at the bar all the time with just some confidence and her be a few to the wind
Dude at first I was sceptical with getting my i7, 8gb ram and 1tb raid 0 setup with an ATI radeon 6570 2 years ago but I only ever use it’s full potential when doing video walk throughs for my product design work. Which takes no joke 24 hours+ to render just a 30 second clip at 30fps . . .
But it is a worthwhile investment as some companies don’t even achieve a 1/3 of that in a professional design enviroment!
That thing is just ridiculous overkill, I can’t fathom what you would need that amount of processing power for, apart from high scores in 3d marks. Unless your pen testing is 90% bruteforcing; I think you should reconsider, it’ll be outdated in 3 years anyway
I’d consider where your priorities are, but it sure looks like fun.
What kinds of CPU loads are you getting in your VMs, and can that processor sustain them?
About the drives…I’m a big fan of SSDs, but good SSDs can already saturate 6Gb/s SATA channels, so the RAID is overkill. For that kind of money, you could potentially do 2 or 3 3-disk RAID 5s with real controllers and get similar performance and better long-term reliability. Or just a few good SSDs without bothering with RAID.
Also…I’ve never had luck with RAID on consumer-level hardware. It works great on server hardware, but that’s not what you’re building.
Also…it might be, but I don’t know…is that one of the boards that’s made to work well with VMs? There are some issues with most consumer MoBos not passing through device access to VMs correctly……and your choice of MoBo affects it drastically. Unfortunately, I’m not up on PC hardware, so I don’t remember the specifics…just issues people talked about during similar builds.
trust me I looked but I cant justify it. I am thinking of dropping one of the graphics cards and replacing with this bit sceptical seems to good to be true
ssd’s in raid zero coming off the built in controller seem to work well on the board, only 2 tho as the 4 6gbs are split between 2 controllers. Over clocking can be done just not as simple as an unlocked cpu
