northerntech

Oh yeah, sorry forgot about that terribly important part… It will be used for cad, some video/photo editing and some gaming. thanks

I have built to may computers lately for other people and have made the decision that I need to build a sweet system for myself. I have the age old question (and it's getting older)... that is, old server gear or new consumer? I would be going with dual xenon X5690s (6 cores @ 3.46GHz base each) and supermicro MoBo with 7 x16 pcie 2.0 slots and 12 ddr3 dimslots (witch I would fill with 8gb sticks… of course). On the other hand your average 8th gen i7. Buy the time I purchase all the pcie adapters to gain modern i/o it will be around the same price. Regardless I plan on water cooling it with an extremely clean, custom case. Thanks for your input.

thanks for the help

Hey so we have all the parts now aside from the case. I did go with a better GPU and Power supply here is the build... https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/zFj4dX

Hey so I am building this computer for a friend and I thought I would get your opinion. He is using it for CAD, video editing and light gaming. I am confident in the build however I was thinking about going with a radeon video card instead of nvidia. Any input would be great, thanks https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/northerntech/saved/3rMWXL

Well we got the AMD APU today as well as an 960 m.2 SSD. Also we got the case about a week ago. everything else including a corsair SF450 SFX PSU is on order. thanks for your input.

So I am building this computer for a friend and thought I should get your opinion. she is big on aesthetic so... RGB. We also have a cool plan for the bottom of the case witch is why we went for a very small PSU. She is into light gaming and older titles so I feel the integrated graphics will suffice with the possibility for a GPU in the future with a PSU upgrade to go with it. Thanks! https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/northerntech/saved/8qpPsY