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Long over due Upgrade!

Maroman
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A long time power user that took a back seat to performance computers. Dating back to 386 days!

Long story short back in 2006 I said I would take a back seat to building and just order a dell xps.

Well it has served me well for encoding, rendering after effects shots although it takes a bit, bit torrent and WoW with graphics cards being updated here and there but the Core2Duo has seen better times as of late. Crysis giggles at it when I have much of anything going on in the background and Metro crawls along.

So I started researching. Found the Linus tech tips vids on YouTube and rejoiced!

I have already grabbed a lot of parts from various spots thanks to pcpartpicker.com

Current list is as of now.

Asus Sabertooth x87

Haswell 4770k

16gb Corsair vengeance ram 1600mhz

Corsair H80 closed loop cooler

Corsair TX650 power supply

From the current system I am going to grab the optical burner and current drives which are sata and from what I have read will work just fine on the Sabertooth. Case I am leaning towards a fractal design R4. Video card I have in the dell is a Evga 570 and will be transferring it over while I recap some money to upgrade. Would like a SSD but clueless what brand to go for as there are so many out there. Total left for the build is right at 400 dollars US and there is a micro center down the road. (main reason I got the 4770k is that $290 price tag.)

I appreciate all the help in advance.

i7 4770k @4.3 || ASUS Sabertooth  || Samsung 840 250GB (Want another for raid) || Western Digital Black 1TB x2 || EVGA GTX660Ti x2  ||  Fractal Design R4|| Corsair H80 || Corsair Vengeance 32GB 1833@Mhz 

 

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Also a side note it was a Dell Xps 720 that I am currently running.

i7 4770k @4.3 || ASUS Sabertooth  || Samsung 840 250GB (Want another for raid) || Western Digital Black 1TB x2 || EVGA GTX660Ti x2  ||  Fractal Design R4|| Corsair H80 || Corsair Vengeance 32GB 1833@Mhz 

 

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You can never go wrong with Samsung SSDs, get atleast 120/128 gigs.

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i7 3770k (3233C Batch) @ 4.2ghz | Asus P8Z77 WS | Gigabyte 780 Ti OC  | Corsair Vengeance LP 1600 32GB DDR3 | Samsung 850 EVO 500GB +2x Samsung 840 EVO 250GB + Samsung 830 256GB + 4x WD30EFRX, 2x WD30EZRX, 1xWD20EARS | Corsair AX750 + Bitfenix Extensions | Fractal Design Define XL R2 + Xigmatec 3in3 Hotswap Cage | Noctua NH-D15 + Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut, 5x Noctua NF-P14s redux-1500 PWM | Peripherals: Logitech G502 + Corsair K70 RGB + Red 40A-L O-Rings | Sound: Denon AVR 2807 via HDMI + 2x Nubert nuPro A-20 + 1x B&W CC6 Center | SoundMagic E10 | Jabra Speak 410

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If you want performance get a Samsung 840 Pro, but if you want storage get a Samsung 840, they are both really high performing but the 840 isn't quite as good but it is a good bit cheaper. Also the R4 is a great case and it is really easy to build in.

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Thanks for the input.

Question on the Samsung pro. Looking at the 240gb area is the samsung able to have a portion set aside to cache a hdd as do a little after effects rendering from time to time? I had heard the Intels can but haven't seen very many good reviews on them? Also any other insight on what I should also be looking at for this build.

i7 4770k @4.3 || ASUS Sabertooth  || Samsung 840 250GB (Want another for raid) || Western Digital Black 1TB x2 || EVGA GTX660Ti x2  ||  Fractal Design R4|| Corsair H80 || Corsair Vengeance 32GB 1833@Mhz 

 

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Thanks for the input.

Question on the Samsung pro. Looking at the 240gb area is the samsung able to have a portion set aside to cache a hdd as do a little after effects rendering from time to time? I had heard the Intels can but haven't seen very many good reviews on them? Also any other insight on what I should also be looking at for this build.

I'm pretty sure you can just set your ssd or a partition of it as the scratch disk for rendering instead of as cache for a hard drive.

 

I would love to provide some more insight but first, I would like to know your budget.

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I'm pretty sure you can just set your ssd or a partition of it as the scratch disk for rendering instead of as cache for a hard drive.

 

I would love to provide some more insight but first, I would like to know your budget.

I am at a 400 USD budget with the operating system still to be purchased.

i7 4770k @4.3 || ASUS Sabertooth  || Samsung 840 250GB (Want another for raid) || Western Digital Black 1TB x2 || EVGA GTX660Ti x2  ||  Fractal Design R4|| Corsair H80 || Corsair Vengeance 32GB 1833@Mhz 

 

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I am at a 400 USD budget with the operating system still to be purchased.

Ahh, I didn't think you bought the list of parts already.

 

Here you go: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/CPGm

 

It seems like you already have things figured out. You could get the 840 Pro instead but that would be cutting quite close to your budget without too much improvement. If you could get it for cheaper, go for it though.

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Thanks for the help. I am gonna stick to the non pro for this time around. Will post a pic when I get it all together and running.

i7 4770k @4.3 || ASUS Sabertooth  || Samsung 840 250GB (Want another for raid) || Western Digital Black 1TB x2 || EVGA GTX660Ti x2  ||  Fractal Design R4|| Corsair H80 || Corsair Vengeance 32GB 1833@Mhz 

 

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All parts are in except windows! That delivery truck needs to show up already.

i7 4770k @4.3 || ASUS Sabertooth  || Samsung 840 250GB (Want another for raid) || Western Digital Black 1TB x2 || EVGA GTX660Ti x2  ||  Fractal Design R4|| Corsair H80 || Corsair Vengeance 32GB 1833@Mhz 

 

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