Performance Gaming PC for streaming and video encoding.

Jonneh

Jonneh

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Case
COOLERMASTER HAF-X FULL TOWER GAMING CASE

Overclocked CPU
Overclocked Intel® Six Core i7-3930K (3.2GHz @ max 4.6GHz)

Motherboard
ASUS® SABERTOOTH X79: SOCKET 2011, R.O.G

Memory (RAM)
16GB KINGSTON HYPERX GENESIS QUAD-DDR3 2133MHz X.M.P(4 x 4GB KIT)

Graphics Card
2 x Palit Jetstream Geforce GTX 680 (from Amazon)

Memory - 1st Hard Disk
240GB KINGSTON HYPERX 3K SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 555MB/sR | 510MB/sW)

2nd Hard Disk
3TB WD CAVIAR GREEN WD30EZRX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE

3rd Hard Disk
3TB WD CAVIAR GREEN WD30EZRX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE

4th Hard Disk
3TB WD CAVIAR GREEN WD30EZRX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE

RAID
RAID 5

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
12x BLU-RAY RE-WRITER DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW

Power Supply
CORSAIR 1050W PRO SERIES™ HX1050-80 PLUS® GOLD MODULAR

Processor Cooling
Corsair H100 CPU Cooler

Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND

Fan Controller
NZXT Sentry 2 Fan Controller with upto 5 Fitted Case Fans

Sound Card
Asustek Xonar DX (from Amazon)

Operating System
Genuine Windows 8 Professional 64 Bit
 
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Jonneh

Jonneh

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Clearly Windows 8 is not really a better gaming platform right now, but I'll reinstall 7 and wait for SP1 benchmarks.
 
Jonneh

Jonneh

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Well its mainly a personal preference thing in the first instance. I always usually go for the '80s rather than the '70s.

When you look at the performance of the Jetstream cards though, it really felt like it was a much better machine for the money.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/palit_geforce_gtx_680_jetstream_review,21.html

They're actually significantly higher performance than the standard 680s in both gaming/fps and cooling, so using two of those felt way better than using 670s. The cost is higher but so is the performance increase, and with the Coolermaster HAF-X case and its superb graphics cooling performance I intend to OC these cards a little as well.
 
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samwil

samwil

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Consider a caviar black/ green as your second HD instead, you'll notice a difference over your chosen HDD's.

Other than that, nothing much to improve really, I mean, it looks like you have a endless budget so...
You could probably half your budget and get near-similar performance, but hey ho.
 
Jonneh

Jonneh

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I didn't really consider the speed of the raid array, but for £30 difference I guess you're probably right.

I'm not sure you really would get the same performance for half the price, especially for streaming ;x

Edit: Noticed while changing hard drives that they also have the Corsair H100 now which I did ask if they could get in for me originally >_<. Guess they *can* now, so swapped out for that as well.
 
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