1400USD Penguin?

[CptFabhatz]

Tjena fan!

Max is the name, coming onto the boards for the first time from Malmoe, Sweden.

So i got this sort of bonus from work, and decided most of it is going towards a new machine. Havent built anything for a few years & Ole Bessy is starting too get a lil bit sluggish.

Like title says im looking to spend at most 1400-1500USD. Below is my current plan:

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/nBGQbv

 

The theme im going for is pretty obvious. Clean, minimal, and furiously boring black/white. As for performance, the heaviest load this thing is going to pull is music production & recording. Some gaming to ofcourse, but at most i fly around in EvE online, and im not perticularly picky with my FPS & graphics to begin with. Right here would probably be a good place for a part-breakdown tbh:

 

CPU: Pretty beast, overclockable. Just seems like a good fit.

CPU Cooler: Keeping up with the theme & my ridiculous love for huge dualtower coolers.

Mainboard: Much like the cooler, this is 90% a design choice. I really hate bare PCB's, even black one's, so the TUF armor on the Sabertooth's are basicly wet dreams for me. Went with the Mark S because white. Making it easier to paint completly white, and i wont have to deal with those nasty beige atrocitys for DIMM & PCI-e slots.

RAM: White & discreet DIMM's from reputable manefacturer. 32gigs because f***ing chrome. And also cuz VST's in music production eats quite alot of it.

GPU: Yea, these probably stung you guys's eyes for a bit. Thing is i already own these, so dont count them in the budget if you have suggestions. Anyway they're staying until i can afford a couple of 970's. Gonna be painted white too fit with the theme.

SSD: For OS and some of my music software. Gotta have those sample library's nice and fastloading.

HDD: Cat pictures, what else?

PSU: Like with the 560ti's, this thing i already have. Gonna get som sweet cablemod cables for it tho!

Case: Prettiest damn cubecase i have seen ever, been wanting one ever since i first saw it. with the massive CPU-cooler im hoping this will allow for a fair amount of OC.

 

If this thing turns out as nice as i hope it will, im considering getting this seriously "wet" in a couple of months. Until then this will have to do.

 

So what do you think? Amaseballs? Ridicolous? need adjustments?

Any help or tips will be greatly appriciated!

 

Oh, and if you like the plan, feel free to drop suggestions for a projectname

 

 

 

[rtpb5642]

Looks good i like the theme. But PLEASE get a WD drive not a seagate if u like ur data safe that is....

[DarkBlade2117]

Looks good. You plan on upgrading those 560Tis? Could probably sell them and buy a 980 or 390x.

[19_blackie_73]

Tjena fan!

Max is the name, coming onto the boards for the first time from Malmoe, Sweden.

So i got this sort of bonus from work, and decided most of it is going towards a new machine. Havent built anything for a few years & Ole Bessy is starting too get a lil bit sluggish.

Like title says im looking to spend at most 1400-1500USD. Below is my current plan:

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/nBGQbv

 

The theme im going for is pretty obvious. Clean, minimal, and furiously boring black/white. As for performance, the heaviest load this thing is going to pull is music production & recording. Some gaming to ofcourse, but at most i fly around in EvE online, and im not perticularly picky with my FPS & graphics to begin with. Right here would probably be a good place for a part-breakdown tbh:

 

CPU: Pretty beast, overclockable. Just seems like a good fit.

CPU Cooler: Keeping up with the theme & my ridiculous love for huge dualtower coolers.

Mainboard: Much like the cooler, this is 90% a design choice. I really hate bare PCB's, even black one's, so the TUF armor on the Sabertooth's are basicly wet dreams for me. Went with the Mark S because white. Making it easier to paint completly white, and i wont have to deal with those nasty beige atrocitys for DIMM & PCI-e slots.

RAM: White & discreet DIMM's from reputable manefacturer. 32gigs because f***ing chrome. And also cuz VST's in music production eats quite alot of it.

GPU: Yea, these probably stung you guys's eyes for a bit. Thing is i already own these, so dont count them in the budget if you have suggestions. Anyway they're staying until i can afford a couple of 970's. Gonna be painted white too fit with the theme.

SSD: For OS and some of my music software. Gotta have those sample library's nice and fastloading.

HDD: Cat pictures, what else?

PSU: Like with the 560ti's, this thing i already have. Gonna get som sweet cablemod cables for it tho!

Case: Prettiest damn cubecase i have seen ever, been wanting one ever since i first saw it. with the massive CPU-cooler im hoping this will allow for a fair amount of OC.

 

If this thing turns out as nice as i hope it will, im considering getting this seriously "wet" in a couple of months. Until then this will have to do.

 

So what do you think? Amaseballs? Ridicolous? need adjustments?

Any help or tips will be greatly appriciated!

 

Oh, and if you like the plan, feel free to drop suggestions for a projectname

instead of upgrading to 970 sli, go for 980 ti same price &performance but no sli related problems. also, a bequiet! dark rock pro 3 will be also a good and damn good choice

[CptFabhatz]

Looks good i like the theme. But PLEASE get a WD drive not a seagate if u like ur data safe that is....

 

Wow man. I went and found some failrate statistics on Seagate & WD drives just now. So yea, defenitly going with a WD or Hitachi instead, thanks for the warning!

 

 

Looks good. You plan on upgrading those 560Tis? Could probably sell them and buy a 980 or 390x.

 

Yea im looking to swap em for 970's or something in the near future, just cant afford it right now. Besides, the 560's can work as a kind of training/sacrifice for GPU-modding . Im most likley going to paint my future cards to go with the theme, and i wouldn't wanna go in completly blind with those.

 

 

instead of upgrading to 970 sli, go for 980 ti same price &performance but no sli related problems. also, a bequiet! dark rock pro 3 will be also a good and damn good choice

 

I know thats totaly the smarter way to go. But somehow i cant get over how sexy dual GPU's look.

Anyway new GPU's are a couple of months away. Who knows, i might just get sane and get a single higher-grade card haha.

[rtpb5642]

Wow man. I went and found some failrate statistics on Seagate & WD drives just now. So yea, defenitly going with a WD or Hitachi instead, thanks for the warning!

 

 

 

np thats y i said WD

[kameshss]

But PLEASE get a WD drive not a seagate if u like ur data safe that is....

Again! ha ha!!

 

 

 

RAM: White & discreet DIMM's from reputable manefacturer. 32gigs because f***ing chrome. And also cuz VST's in music production eats quite alot of it.

You are going to go flawless on Chrome!

 

I wish I had that amount of RAM.

 

 

Beasty Tuxedo. How is that for the theme name?

[Inception9269]

Went with a sort of Penguin color scheme

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($224.99 @ NCIX US)
CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X61 106.1 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($114.99 @ B&H)
Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($115.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  ($55.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($63.49 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($64.80 @ SuperBiiz)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card  ($688.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: NZXT Phantom 240 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($66.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: Corsair CSM 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($87.47 @ B&H)
Total: $1483.70
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-20 14:38 EDT-0400

 

The perfect gigabyte 980ti is a little over budget, but the black and white colors fit the theme

[Inception9269]

if you want a WD hdd instead.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($224.99 @ NCIX US)
CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X61 106.1 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($114.99 @ B&H)
Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($115.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  ($55.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($63.49 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($119.99 @ Micro Center)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Video Card  ($688.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: NZXT Phantom 240 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($66.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: Corsair CSM 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($87.47 @ B&H)
Total: $1538.89
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-20 14:41 EDT-0400