So, it's time for my computer upgrade season.
This is my current setup at the moment:
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Intel i7 4930k @ Stock 3.4GHz-3.9GHz Turbo
16GB RAM
MSi X79 GD45 Motherboard
GTX Titan Black
1x90GB OCZ SSD
1x1TB WD Black HDI'm 9/10 going to wait for the new suite of Intel hardware to ship out, its around that time of the year when all of the new chips come out.
I want to replace my hard drive + ssd, I was considering 2x4TB WD Black Hard Drives and 1xSamsung 1TB SSD, CPU + MOBO, and my RAM (depending on which chipset I will get resulting in the amount of DIMMs I will have). For CPUs & replacement I was thinking about a Haswell-E 5960x that will run on the new X99 Chipset, it's rumored to be stock 3.0-3.3GHz but for 8 Cores I can invest in some awesome cooling to easily fix that OC wise..
My plan B was going with the 4790k's successor in the Broadwell series the 5790k and running that off a micro or mini-itx watercooled build which I have anticipated for a while now, the issue is the amount of cores, the pros are I'm sure that the thing is going to be at a really nice stock clock which gives more room to OC it even farther (knowing the 4790k comes stock at 4.0GHz).techpowerup wrote:Intel's next-generation Core i7 "Haswell-E" HEDT (high-end desktop) processor lineup, slated for later this year, accompanied by the company's X99 Express chipset, will launch at three price-points, predictably, succeeding the current Core i7-4820K, i7-4930K, and i7-4960X. The platform will herald a new LGA socket, which will have 2,011 pins, but will not be compatible with current LGA2011 platforms based on the X79 Express chipset. That's because "Haswell-E" will be among the first client platforms to support DDR4-SDRAM memory. All Haswell-E chips will support DDR4-2133 MHz out of the box.
So overall, I need someone to feed me some ideas and tell me whether the hard drive + ssd concept was a good idea, and which route the CPU would be best in.
And lastly, I have tried to discuss this to my semi-techie friends and they question my taste in expensive hardware. The reason why I need such high-quality hardware is because I need high-performance and reliability, knowing that this revolves around me as a part time job, and things like ECC is something I'm lucky to be having running on my computer. I also am planning on running a 3-way monitor setup with two 1080p monitors and maybe a 4k monitor for color accuracy in editing photos and videos. My expectations for my machine are to run games at maximum settings (not @ 4k) while being able to render videos in 1080p@60FPS in the background, sadly I cannot render 3D animations in the background but hey, that's a different story. I utilize software such as 3Ds Max, Games, After Effects, Cinema4D, and developer tools such as UE&CE, and typically I run two to three of these at once.
Thanks to anyone who can help me out here. This is a pretty abnormal situation.
So.. Hard drives? SSDs..? How many.. What capacity? CPU.. Wait or keep what I have for a few years..?
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