PC Build Log - First PC: What am I doing?

[Gmoneyinthebank]

So I've passed the point of no return.  I'm waiting for delivery on the last components and I'm building a PC.

What I've got so far....

I7-7800X - Six Core Skylake

H115i - Corsair water cooling kit

960 EVO 500GB - NVMe SSD

64 GB of 2400MHz DDR4 RAM

Waiting for Delivery:

P4000 Nvidia Graphics card

H932 HAF Cooler Master Case

MSI - X299 Tomahawk Motherboard

 

Near term updates planned

Additional 64GB of RAM

Second NVMe Drive

 

Edit:64GB not 65GB

[Max_Settings]

Why X299? And 128gb of RAM?

[Mr.Meerkat]

Why not get a 960 pro 1TB? 

Why not full custom watercooling? 

Why not dual p6000? 

 

Git better PC

 

/jk 

[Batteries Included]

But can it run crysis?

[Max_Settings]

9 minutes ago, Batteries Included said:

But can it run crysis?

Actually, not as well as you might think

[Gmoneyinthebank]

On 8/1/2017 at 12:47 AM, Mr.Meerkat said:

Why not get a 960 pro 1TB? 

Why not full custom watercooling? 

Why not dual p6000? 

 

Git better PC

 

/jk 

Why not get three 960's in a PCI raid controller?

Why not get a phase Cooler?

Why not get duel GP100's in Raid and a Tesla K80 

 

If I'm going to dream.... I'm going to dream big

On 8/1/2017 at 12:35 AM, Max_Settings said:

And a P4000? What are you going with this PC?

CAD, FEA, Computational Fluid Dynamics, some gaming......

 

Maybe some trolling and shitposting, but not on this forum.  I might actually need some help if this doesn't go according to plan.

 

Edited May 1, 2018 by Gmoneyinthebank
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[Evolution.]

15 hours ago, Gmoneyinthebank said:

Why not get three 960's in a PCI raid controller?

Why not get a phase Cooler?

Why not get duel GP100's in Raid and a Tesla K80 

 

If I'm going to dream.... I'm going to dream big

CAD, FEA, Computational Fluid Dynamics, some gaming......

 

Maybe some trolling and shitposting, but not on this forum.  I might actually need some help if this doesn't go according to plan.

lmao the man was being serious

[MVPernula]

48 minutes ago, VenomZ_ said:

lmao the man was being serious

 

On ‎2017‎-‎08‎-‎01 at 6:35 AM, Max_Settings said:

Why X299? And 128gb of RAM?

[Gmoneyinthebank]

P4000 and case arrived..... No motherboard until Monday.

 

Why is everyone acting like this is something crazy?  Did I make a bunch of stupid part selections?

[sundawg89]

What are you going to be using this PC for primarily?

[Blaze0303]

Why are you going with a Haf 932??

[Gmoneyinthebank]

The build has begun.

 

13 hours ago, sundawg89 said:

What are you going to be using this PC for primarily?

Solidworks and Catia

 

12 hours ago, Blaze0303 said:

Why are you going with a Haf 932??

Keep it from getting too hot.

[Gmoneyinthebank]

POST was successful last night.

 

I might need to buy a new cooler. The H115 Corsair doesn't line up with the existing bolt down positions. 

 

I'm going to put in all the connectors (USB....), do some cable management and hit up microcenter on the weekend.

[Guest]

Isnt such a build a completely unbalanced system ?

 

That feels so odd, even for professional use.

 

128GB would be okay for storage and database servers but in an editing rig?

[Gmoneyinthebank]

22 hours ago, Goku-sama said:

Isnt such a build a completely unbalanced system ?

 

That feels so odd, even for professional use.

 

128GB would be okay for storage and database servers but in an editing rig?

What is lacking that would make it unbalanced?  

 

FYI, It's for CAD, FEA, Simulation, and CFD. Programs that run mostly single thread with scalability dropping off after 6-8 cores during multi-core tasks.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Gmoneyinthebank said:

What is lacking that would make it unbalanced?  

 

FYI, It's for CAD, FEA, Simulation, and CFD. Programs that run mostly single thread with scalability dropping off after 6-8 cores during multi-core tasks.

But wouldnt you prefer a better GPU then with more VRAM over RAM?

 

The P4000 seems so old and i do suppose it has something to do with current Quadros costing 5000$?

[Gmoneyinthebank]

1 hour ago, Goku-sama said:

But wouldnt you prefer a better GPU then with more VRAM over RAM?

 

The P4000 seems so old and i do suppose it has something to do with current Quadros costing 5000$?

http://images.nvidia.com/content/pdf/quadro/data-sheets/301283-DS-NV-Quadro-Pascal-P4000-US-03Feb17-NV-fnl-WEB.pdf

P4000 Just came out this year.

It's got 8GB of VRAM.

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, Gmoneyinthebank said:

http://images.nvidia.com/content/pdf/quadro/data-sheets/301283-DS-NV-Quadro-Pascal-P4000-US-03Feb17-NV-fnl-WEB.pdf

P4000 Just came out this year.

It's got 8GB of VRAM.

Okay then. But aside from the program certifications and graphic card factory testing, wouldnt a Titan Xp be a better GPU? This one has far fewer Cuda cores and less VRAM, while being slightly less expensive.

[nicolas2465]

Do you REALLY need that much ram?

 

No, I mean, do you really?

 

Like REALLY?

[Gmoneyinthebank]

On 8/11/2017 at 3:06 PM, Goku-sama said:

Okay then. But aside from the program certifications and graphic card factory testing, wouldnt a Titan Xp be a better GPU? This one has far fewer Cuda cores and less VRAM, while being slightly less expensive.

Non-workstation graphics cards don't support all the features in Solidworks.

On 8/11/2017 at 3:13 PM, nicolas2465 said:

Do you REALLY need that much ram?

 

No, I mean, do you really?

 

Like REALLY?

Yes.  Puget systems recommends 5 GB for Solidworks to run + 20 X (Biggest file you're going to open).

6 GB file is a reasonable upper bound for my file sizes.

 

 

I honestly thought it would be a lot harder than it turned out to be.  A little cable management and it's good to go.

 

[Gmoneyinthebank]

First Cinebench R15 scores:
OpenGL 120.21 FPS

CPU 1190

 

Not really sure if that's any good.  

[Gmoneyinthebank]

Update: Overclocking has begun

 

 

Task Manager is showing 4.17 GHz

 

Prime95: Temps are average 60 C with a quick spike to 85 C. 

Cinebench is now: CPU 1381 \ OpenGL 134.09 fps