My new halfPC...

MirceaT · February 24, 2013

I'm guessing you're wondering what's up with that title, well relax and hear my story. I would like to upgrade my pc with some new parts.

My current pc specs are :

-MB: Asus Striker II Formula

-CPU: Intel Q 9550 2,83Ghz but i keep it at 3,2Ghz and cant go higher since it gets really hot (did manage to get it to 100 degrees Celsius)

-CPU cooler: had stock now i got an Corsair H60

-RAM: Mushkin 4GB DDR2 800mhz

-GPU: Had originaly a GTX280 now i have a GTX590

-HDD: WD 2 Terra

-Case: Antec Nine Hundred

-PSU: Antec 850W i think the real watts are around 768 real power

-Monitor: Samsung 24inch SyncMaster S24B300

-Keyboard: Logitech G110

-Mouse: Logitech G5

So this is my day to day pc I use, I am an architecture student in Romania, and i mainly use it for CAD and renderings, on CPU or on GPU, and am used to play DOTA 2 or WOW from time to time (actually when i do have time). I have this pc for 5 years now and since it's been hard for him... moving him alot from friend's houses to mine to school... and 2 years ago my house got strike by a thunder...everything got fried but my pc... actually my pc, my motherboard got one of the 2 lan ports fried , but the rest of it works fine(i guess). Besides the lan port problem i kinnda hate this pc because it freezes alot, it used to be cuz of my ram, got new firmware for my MB worked for a few months, now my graphic card is messing with me and turns my monitor off. ANYWAY, I decided to upgrade my CPU, MB and RAM with : i7 3770K, Asus Maximus V Formula and some redline corsair Vengeance 32 Gb ram (I am goin all way because I will use Photoshop and Sketchup wich do use quite alot of ram). Those are my "next 2 weeks" upgrade, I am planning to buy an SSD wich will be a Samsung 840 250Gb (yes this big because i got loads of programs to instal) and a new case, maybe corsair 600T, new CPU cooler, altho i would love the Swiftech 220H i gotta wait and see if it launches here in Romania or just go with H100i, new PSU, maybe a Corsair AX860i because I'm also planning to get another graphic card, and thats it :D

I also have some questions for people here : - anyone knows if a buy a Corsair PSU sleeving kit (the red one) and use it on another PSU will it work? Is there going to be tension resistance or even conectivity problems?

- since i know Asus Maximus V Formula is 2 way SLI with 8x and 8x if both populated and say, i do populate both with 2x gtx590, my GPU's will be 4x on all 4 but because the mboard is PCI 3.0 it will actually work 8x on all 4 because the GPU's are on based on PCI 2.0? And also is there a big difference between 4x and 8x PCI data transfer(mainly from a GPU rendering point of view)? Hope you guys understand, if not i will try and explain it again.

Before you post silly things like: - omg get newer graphic cards it will bottleneck -> I dont use it for games I use it for GPU rendering with Octane Render in wich i use CUDA cores and before u say 600s series have more i tell u it has weeker CUDA cores than Fermi architecture, its tested and not up to debate

- OMG RAM OVERKILL, again 32GB for photoshop and rendering programs who use alot of ram for big beefy projects

- and yes i GPU and CPU render, using both

I will post pics with my current build and when ill start to asembly the rest of it.