Finally got my new i7 rig!

Ermz

Ermz

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So, after about a day and a half of driving, buying, building, installing, tweaking, I've emerged back into the world of the living.

Let me just say that the Core i7 series CPUs absolutely rock, as do the various other parts I've put into this thing. There is something amazing about cruising through a Windows 7 installation with a system drive that's running 2 WD Caviar Black drives in RAID0.

After some benchmarking and gaming I'm a happy fellow... now the trouble is to use the beast for audio instead of blasting zombies in L4D! (with 16x AA and AF of course).

I really look forward to seeing what it can take from an audio workstation perspective. The concern at the moment is whether the RME HDSPe card can actually fit in my case next to that mammoth videocard.

So, if any of you guys are looking to build a new rig with a modest budget of around $2,000 (AUD), here is what I came up with as ideal:

MoBo: ASUS P6T $355
CPU: Core i7 920 $441
RAM: 6GB G-Skill NQ $135
GPU: Inno3D GTX275 $350
HDD: 1 x WD Caviar Green 1TB $144 | 3 x WD Caviar Black 500GB $345
Case: Antec P183 $259
PSU: Corsair HX620 ~$180
DVDRW: Pioneer 217 $37
Thermal Paste: Noctua NT-H1 Pro-Grade $9

CPU fan is an old Scythe Ninja I had lying around. I honestly can't lift the case by myself. The components are so ridiculously heavy.. I've never had a build quite like this before!
 
+ you can run Nebula with CUDA support from your videocard :Smokedev:

Actually ... screw the music, let`s blast zombies
 
Thanks guys. I was gonna put some pictures up, but I didn't think this place was so up on the hardware geekage that some of the other forums I frequent are :lol:

On the flipside I'm now completely broke! I actually can't eat out until my next gig (early next month). Given how addictive this thing is though, I don't think I'd have to...

@Melodeath: If you have the funds, do it man. Some great performance... I might grab Reaper 3 or something and run a few hundred tracks of SSL channel and see how it does.

@Mancha: Indeed. I'm not the biggest Nebula user at the moment due to its general clunkiness. I need tools that are quick and give gratification easy, but I understand that in due time Nebula will bring the goods in a more commercial package. Just wait till Diablo 3, then we'll hit it hard...
 
Congrats! It must be awesome to work on this beast. And think of the time you'll save when exporting audio.

I still can't bite the bullet and replace my E2180 :erk: I know the computer is an enormously important piece of equipment yet I keep saving money for a million other things.
 
Here we are:
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Right next to the old one!
 
Ermz, I suggest you buy this:

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It's not exactly the one I have, but it's pretty similar, with no fan attached to it.

And this for the GPU:

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I have this one aswell, I only have 2 fans, which are blowing the air out of the case, and are REALLY silent, I have them set to low, they came with my Antec P180, they're really really silent. It's the best PC rig I've had in termos of power and noise, there is almost zero noise :) And it keeps temperatures really cool as with normal coolers.
 
@Markg : you should consider some cheap good computers. Here in france, I found on a well known site for 300€ an average gamer computer. It's dualcore 2.4Ghz, 300Go, 2Gb Ram. I've put 1Go Ram more, but for the rest it's perfect for normal projects, i'm not limited at all until I put a lot of CPU eater plugins. And its not too noisy.

It's a cheap solution to find a basic gamer PC, excepted for the graphical card there are the same needs.
 
LeSedna said:
@Markg : you should consider some cheap good computers. Here in france, I found on a well known site for 300€ an average gamer computer. It's dualcore 2.4Ghz, 300Go, 2Gb Ram. I've put 1Go Ram more, but for the rest it's perfect for normal projects, i'm not limited at all until I put a lot of CPU eater plugins. And its not too noisy.

It's a cheap solution to find a basic gamer PC, excepted for the graphical card there are the same needs.
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Whats surpising to me is that PC's havent really got that much cheaper during the last year, I spent £200 on a similar spec a year ago, I look around today and usually find its more expensive to buy the same thing now :err:

OT: That looks like a monster Ermz, my inner nerd is well jealous.
 
@Sptz: My friend was actually showing me that same GPU heatsink last night. Wants it for his ATI card. My CPU heatsink is actually quite similar to that one. It's a Scythe Ninja... barely fits in the case. I don't know about running the CPU all passive though without even water. They are susceptible to overheating and I don't want to take the chance. GPU heatsink, you have a fair point, but man the GPUs get the hottest out of anything in the case and that's with heatsinks and fans that cover the entire body.

I dig the pleasures of passive cooling and silence, but it's probably not for someone like me who wants great performance also!
 
Sptz said:
Ermz, I suggest you buy this:

tuniqtowerqq9.jpg


It's not exactly the one I have, but it's pretty similar, with no fan attached to it.

And this for the GPU:

338_AcceleroS12_1193498507.jpg


I have this one aswell, I only have 2 fans, which are blowing the air out of the case, and are REALLY silent, I have them set to low, they came with my Antec P180, they're really really silent. It's the best PC rig I've had in termos of power and noise, there is almost zero noise :) And it keeps temperatures really cool as with normal coolers.
Click to expand...

Wow, those things look pretty fucking intimidating :lol:
 
hahah! I know what you mean, but since your case is an Antec it has for sure a good airflow, so I'd recommend them. I'm quite cautious with that myself, so I tried Fur stress test, to intensively stress my gpu and the highest peak was at 72ºC which is even lower than most... About my CPU in idle it remains at 40ºC, stressed it goes up to 60ºC no more than that... so it works pretty good for zero silence
 
Whoo nice. It's an open case too. It really isn't that noisy? Crazy...

I can hear some distinct wooshing coming from the center of mine.. I have a feeling that it's the graphics card that's loudest and perhaps the 120mm fan on the CPU that's adding a bit more. The case fans seem almost noiseless.
 
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