Spec. Check for Analysis Machine

[geeksarebeta]

Hello everyone, I'm new to this forum so please bear with me.

The spec. below is for a machine I am producing to do some analysis work, mainly FEA and mathematical modelling, and am looking if aopinions. I intend to use Matlab, Hyperworks etc and looking to be coding in Python to create some new codes. I'm not gaming so there's no requirement for a heavy duth graphics card, yet, though I may upgrade in future to use CUDA cores for analysis, for now a screen and 3D rendering for CAD is enough. The main concerns are getting the M/B in there with a good processor, the M/B I've chosen bacsue it'll take 128Gb of RAM which is the biggest I've seen wihout going to a MB that costs ~£1000.

For more details on usage please see: http://geeksarebeta.com/2015/08/25/planned-pc-build/

Please comment on the spec to advise, I cannot afford much more than this though.

Thanks!

Case
CORSAIR CARBIDE SERIES™ 200R COMPACT GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Six Core Processor i7-5820K (3.3GHz) 15MB Cache
Motherboard
Gigabyte X99 Gaming 5P: E-ATX, LG2011-3, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs, XFIRE/SLI
Memory (RAM)
32GB KINGSTON HYPER-X PREDATOR QUAD-DDR4 3000MHz X.M.P (4 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE 210 - DVI, HDMI, VGA
1st Hard Disk
250GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
Power Supply
CORSAIR 450W VS SERIES™ VS-450 POWER SUPPLY
Processor Cooling
Super Quiet 22dBA Triple Copper Heatpipe Intel CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
WIRELESS 802.11 AC1200 867Mbps/5GHz, 300Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD

 

[NoobToComputers]

To be honest 36 gig of ram is loads. If your running loads of programs then use it but otherwise it might be overkill.

 

[geeksarebeta]

Thanks for the reply, sadly 32Gb is no where near enough RAM but it is all I can afford for now, ideally I need to have at least 4Gb per logical core (parallel computing), so for 12 logical cores thats a minimum of 48Gb. The idea is to start low and then increae the memory as I go along and my models get more and more complicated.

 

[NoobToComputers]

ok gl in finding what you want i just dont really use anything above 8GB and it runs fine but i geuse as ur running loads of stuff its for the better

 

[geeksarebeta]

I've changed the spec. slightly, I've dropped the amount of RAM down to 16Gb but increased speed to 3000MHz, so that I can increase the spec. of the CPU mounted cooler, want to get that as good as I like so I don't have to touch the CPU in future, adding more RAM is easy. Also boosted the PSU to allow for a future CUDA graphics card.