How Would You Build My System?

essenbe said:

I built this X99 system a few months ago. I have really slowed down. I used to build 7-10 systems a yesr. I did build my Wife one and my Sister one. I tried to sell Dude my backup rig so I could build another system. But, he wouldn't bite.

pparks1 said:

Not really necessary though if not overclocking. Thats almost 10% of his budget he has set aside thus far.

A core i5 would probably be fine and save you some cash.

SSD for OS highly recommended.

Simrick's not a "he", Mr. Parks. :)

Since she's already got a 2 TB spinner, I'd say she can work with that and wait awhile to get the SSD.

Gary said:

I would use a Corsair H75 Liquid CPU Cooler. It is ~$59.00

So, I am not familiar with liquid coolers. Are they "closed systems"? In other words, I don't have to worry about adding to them ever?

essenbe said:

See if this would work. You choose your DVD/BD drive. The case I have owned and is a good case, but cases are pretty personal and I tend to like Full Tower cases. I just didn't want to register in order to save the list. This should do anything you want to do for a few years. You can go cheaper, but that's not my thing. I try to buy quality parts I know will last. Go with the newest Chipset. It will be supported longer and generally has the best features. The PSU is probably the best brand on the market and is what I have in my rig, The graphics card you could lower the card version and save some money, but stay with EVGA in my opinion. I have that Wireless card in 2 rigs and have never had an issue. The motherboard, well it's Asus and ROG , what else can I say? Seriously, I have owned a lot of boards and I find that the ROG boards are better quality and performance oriented. My opinion, I'm sure others will argue. I have used G Skill for years and I have a little different version in my rig Now. I have had great luck with it, but Corsair, Mushkin and several others are good as well. As with everything else in this list, it's my opinion and I am the one making the list. Attachment 43104 You could swap boards and CPUs and go X99 if you wanted to. You could go with this card and drop the price a little http://pcpartpicker.com/part/evga-vi...rd-02gp42951kr

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2rZbMp


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Oh my goodness! Thanks Steve! Yeah, I'll be another year saving the rest of the cash for a dream system like that! LOL But seriously, I would consider dropping the card down, if I can be sure it won't affect performance for my work. For gaming, I really don't care. Someone was telling me about PNY Quadro video cards, made specifically for Adobe products (hence photography/videography); any insight on those? I don't necessarily use Adobe, but for comparison, with HDR photography, it would be interesting to know.

Dude said:

I agree with Steve's list, but would add a SSD to it.

Yes, I was thinking of adding an SSD later on. Compared to what I am using right now, anything would be like lightning to me!

Wynona said:

Whoa, Steve, you just almost doubled Simrick's budget! :) That would be a very nice system, though, and I'd love to build one like it!

Yes, yes he did...

pparks1 said:

Not really necessary though if not overclocking. Thats almost 10% of his budget he has set aside thus far.

A core i5 would probably be fine and save you some cash.

SSD for OS highly recommended.

I have to admit, I am totally lost when it comes to overclocking. I think that's mostly gamers, right? So I am not a candidate for that I guess.

Wynona said:

Since she's already got a 2 TB spinner, I'd say she can work with that and wait awhile to get the SSD.

Yes, that's what I am thinking.


One thing I didn't mention in the first post: I don't know if this makes any difference or not, but how can I be sure to get a BIOS that allows disabling UEFI?

Thanks everyone!

As far as I am aware, all of them will install either way. I have always used Legacy installs until the last couple of weeks. I was getting so many questions about UEFI Installs, I decided to try it and am installed in UEFI now. Both on the same board. I think all of the recent retail motherboards will allow that. Some of the OEMs lock the BIOS down so tight, who knows.

essenbe said:

As far as I am aware, all of them will install either way. I have always used Legacy installs until the last couple of weeks. I was getting so many questions about UEFI Installs, I decided to try it and am installed in UEFI now. Both on the same board. I think all of the recent retail motherboards will allow that. Some of the OEMs lock the BIOS down so tight, who knows.

I am concerned, only because MS have made that optional now with W10, whereas prior to W10, it was mandatory that the OEs have both options available to consumers. I would hate to be stuck with a MB/BIOS that allows UEFI only - I mean, how would you overcome that?

simrick said:

<Snip>One thing I didn't mention in the first post: I don't know if this makes any difference or not, but how can I be sure to get a BIOS that allows disabling UEFI?

Thanks everyone!

Why don't you want to use UEFI? I'm not sure, but I think it speeds bootup a bunch.

I was so afraid that I would wreck my system if I installed anything new (OS) on this UEFI machine that I just wouldn't do it.

But finally I bit the bullet and it was easy! As easy as legacy! And now I wouldn't go back if you paid me.

Wynona said:

Why don't you want to use UEFI? I'm not sure, but I think it speeds bootup a bunch.

I was so afraid that I would wreck my system if I installed anything new (OS) on this UEFI machine that I just wouldn't do it.

But finally I bit the bullet and it was easy! As easy as legacy! And now I wouldn't go back if you paid me.

Well, for one thing, Linux doesn't meet the security requirements of UEFI, and so I wouldn't be able to dual-boot W10/Ubuntu unless I could turn it off. (Not that I need Linux ATM on this machine, but I don't want to limit myself, you know?) UEFI is mostly a security thing - any changes are identified at boot, i.e. malware which creates its own hidden partition and so on.

I didn't find a great deal of increased boot time. Maybe a little, but it is also supposed to be safer. I'm just trying it out now, but other than BIOS settings, I find little difference.

As far as I know, which is very little about the Quadro cards, they are more professional graphics acrds. A good one will cose double of the price of the computer I suggested. But, there are some cheaper ones. How they work and what they do, I have no idea.

http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&key...l_2suj8ovhqq_e

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...=-1&isNodeId=1

I thought some versions of Linux were enabling UEFI Capabilities, but I'm not sure. You could run Linux in VMWare or Hyper V too. They say you can't do it, but when switching over, I had this machine booting a UEFI OS and a MBR OS. Don't ask me how. I would have to play with the settings to figure it out gain.

Simrick, I will help you out if I can. I'm more of a hardware person than anything else, really. I posted the suggestions before I saw your budget post. But, I would definitely go with an i7 if you are doing a lot of rendering and things like that. An i5 will still do it, but will take much longer to do it. Budgets are just a starting point anyway. Nobody builds a computer within budget. I never have.