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Peetah:
Just to get ya started or giving some ideas you can use this video.
Logan's a great guy and hes funny.
http://youtu.be/RmhZkaVXrqw
You can skip to 1min where it starts.
Xrain:
First thing, make sure you have two monitors... Totally worth it.
For computer engineering the most you will use will be programs like Cadence orcad, eagle or a similar PSPICE circuit simulation software.
These don't really require a ton of horsepower so the dual xeon setup isn't needed. :P
That said I would get a better cpu, a ssd, and 8-16 gb of ram, vs. what I would do for a gaming computer.
So a reasonable comp engineering setup for ~$1200:
CPU: i5-4670k - $230
Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-Z87X-D3H - $135
Memory: 8GB of DDR3 1600MHz (I like corsair or mushkin ram) - $58
PSU: ThermalTake SP-530PCWEU - $65
Case: Fractal Design Core 3000 (Unless you already have one you like) $70
SSD: Samsung EVO 256 gb - $179 (Go bigger if you can spend the monies)
HDD: 2TB HDD (Personally I like WD black drives, but Seagate works too) - ~$150
GPU: AMD R9 270x - $199
OS: Windows 7 Professional OEM $135 (also a good idea to make a small partition on the HD and install Arch linux and learn that as well)
Extras: SATA DVD-RW Drive - $20
Totaling it up we get $1240 Which admittedly is a hair more than the budget but these are just rough prices I pulled out, you should be able to find better deals than what I priced out.
Welcome to the secret brotherhood of the electrical engineers! :dukenukem:
Frank:
What do you think about this setup?
PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1N9wC
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1N9wC/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1N9wC/benchmarks/
CPU: Intel Core i5-3570 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($209.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($29.98 @ Outlet PC)
Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z77 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($232.97 @ Outlet PC)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($149.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($62.98 @ Outlet PC)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 2GB Video Card ($334.99 @ Amazon)
Case: Fractal Design Define R4 w/Window (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case ($99.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Corsair Professional 750W 80 PLUS Gold Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer ($18.49 @ Amazon)
Total: $1219.37
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-10-11 06:45 EDT-0400)
Xrain:
--- Quote from: Frank on October 11, 2013, 03:49:41 AM ---What do you think about this setup?
PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1N9wC
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1N9wC/by_merchant/
Benchmarks: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1N9wC/benchmarks/
CPU: Intel Core i5-3570 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($209.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($29.98 @ Outlet PC)
Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z77 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($232.97 @ Outlet PC)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($149.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($62.98 @ Outlet PC)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 2GB Video Card ($334.99 @ Amazon)
Case: Fractal Design Define R4 w/Window (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case ($99.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Corsair Professional 750W 80 PLUS Gold Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer ($18.49 @ Amazon)
Total: $1219.37
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-10-11 06:45 EDT-0400)
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The i5-3570 is last generation technology (ivy bridge) If you are buying new might as well go with haswell.
That Mobo uses a Z77 northbridge which is the old generation of motherboard compared to the Z87 in the gigabyte Mobo I recommend sticking with the cpu/mobo combination I recommended, it should be better performance for the same price. And will put you on the current cpu socket standard.
Rams good
That HDD will work
The 670 is slower than the R9 780x in every benchmark I have seen, is nearly two generations old, and is $35 more expensive. If your going to spend $300 on a card go with the 780x
Case is a personal choice thing for the most part.
As for the PSU the 530W one I specced or the 750W one you specced will both work fine for either case. You wont really see much benefit from the extra wattage unless you are going to run several graphics cards in SLI. Which I personally wouldn't run SLI since the drivers tend to be rather spotty.
CD drive is fine, they are all pretty much the same.
You forgot to add the OS, which will be another $130.
I would highly reccomend the SSD for your system, as you will likely see the greatest speed gain from having one. Just install the OS and your most used applications on the SSD, and put your movies and music on the HDD.
Here is the computer on that part picker website:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1NqmJ
Granted I put the 7970 in there simply because they don't have the 780x's listed yet. But that 7970 should perform similarly to the 780x in any case.
And you can pick whatever cpu cooler, I have an arctic cooling and like it, but the one you had chosen should work as well.
Frank:
--- Quote from: Xrain on October 11, 2013, 04:55:41 AM ---The i5-3570 is last generation technology (ivy bridge) If you are buying new might as well go with haswell.
That Mobo uses a Z77 northbridge which is the old generation of motherboard compared to the Z87 in the gigabyte Mobo I recommend sticking with the cpu/mobo combination I recommended, it should be better performance for the same price. And will put you on the current cpu socket standard.
Rams good
That HDD will work
The 670 is slower than the R9 780x in every benchmark I have seen, is nearly two generations old, and is $35 more expensive. If your going to spend $300 on a card go with the 780x
Case is a personal choice thing for the most part.
As for the PSU the 530W one I specced or the 750W one you specced will both work fine for either case. You wont really see much benefit from the extra wattage unless you are going to run several graphics cards in SLI. Which I personally wouldn't run SLI since the drivers tend to be rather spotty.
CD drive is fine, they are all pretty much the same.
You forgot to add the OS, which will be another $130.
I would highly reccomend the SSD for your system, as you will likely see the greatest speed gain from having one. Just install the OS and your most used applications on the SSD, and put your movies and music on the HDD.
Here is the computer on that part picker website:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1NqmJ
Granted I put the 7970 in there simply because they don't have the 780x's listed yet. But that 7970 should perform similarly to the 780x in any case.
And you can pick whatever cpu cooler, I have an arctic cooling and like it, but the one you had chosen should work as well.
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What if uhh... I were to use a special kind of OS? How would that affect me?
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