Final Spec - any improvements?

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kingo

Member
Think this spec provides high performance...for CAD/Sketch-up/Photoshop/bit of gaming

Is the motherboard sufficient or should I upgrade it?

is this case ok - will it provide enough cooling?

With solid state drives, I imagine 1st will have OS and Programs, 2nd drive project files, is that a reasonable way of doing it for performance,


Case
CORSAIR CARBIDE SERIES™ 200R COMPACT GAMING CASE

Overclocked CPU
Overclocked Intel® Core™i7-4790k Quad Core (4.00GHz @ upto 4.70GHz)

Motherboard
ASUS® Z97-A: ATX, USB3.0, SATA 6GB/S, SLi, XFIRE

Memory (RAM)
16GB KINGSTON HYPER-X BEAST DUAL-DDR3 2133MHz X.M.P (2 x 8GB)

Graphics Card
3GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 780 Ti - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready

1st Hard Disk
250GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)

2nd Hard Disk
250GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)

3rd Hard Disk
3TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD3003FZEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM

Power Supply
CORSAIR 850W RM SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET (£99)

Processor Cooling
CoolerMaster Hyper 212 EVO (120mm) Fan CPU Cooler (£29)

Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)

Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (Wi-Fi NOT INCLUDED)

USB Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 4 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS

Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)

Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED

Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE

Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE

Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
 
C

Cadwah

Rising Star
You could probably drop to the non-k version of the 4970. Are you sure you need the overclock? however the 4970k does have the higher base clock speed. Up to you.
The case isn't designed for such a high end system and you could do with one with better cooling, especially if you are overclocking - Anything that says Extreme Gaming should be fine.
The motherboard is more than enough for your needs.
1st SSD:OS, Programs and data files for projects. 2nd SSD: Output for projects
Get liquid cooling if you are overclocking, it will extend the life of the CPU.
 
mantadog

mantadog

Superhero Level Poster
The way SSD's work isn't like HDD's. They don't care if they're running the OS and opening Photoshop at the same time. The can drag data from anywhere on the disk at the same speed. You may see a minute improvement on write speeds, but generally it would be impossible to tell.

From a pure performance stand point a single 500GB drive would be faster because it has more chips to read/write at once. meaning more 'lanes' it can use at the same time. So it would be fractionally cheaper to do it that way and minimally better in terms of performance. However I don't think their is much in it at all.
 
K

kingo

Member
I probably don't need to OC right now...

I've read mixed reports about liquid cooling i.e more hassle/maintenance/still need fans anyway?
 
mantadog

mantadog

Superhero Level Poster
kingo said:
That sounds intersting...never worked with a raid before...how would I set that up and would it back up automatically?
Click to expand...

Raid 0 splits the data between the 2 drives so you have double the chance of a failure, if one drive fails you loose everything.

SSD's are so quick you don't really need raid.
 
C

Cadwah

Rising Star
Case
FRACTAL DESIGN ARC MIDI R2 MID-TOWER CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-4790 (3.6GHz) 8MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® Z97-A: ATX, USB3.0, SATA 6GB/S, SLi, XFIRE
Memory (RAM)
16GB KINGSTON HYPER-X FURY DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
3GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 780 Ti - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready
1st Hard Disk
250GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk
250GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
3rd Hard Disk
3TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD3003FZEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 750W RM SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET (£89)
Processor Cooling
CoolerMaster Hyper 212 EVO (120mm) Fan CPU Cooler (£29)
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (Wi-Fi NOT INCLUDED)
USB Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 4 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 7 to 9 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £1,581.00 including VAT and delivery.

Unique URL to re-configure: http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/quotes/intel-haswell-pc/pd8N0TTrWT/
 
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