PC Modding Build list - Arctic Frost Dragon

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Case Codename: Arctic Frost Dragon

Case
Mobo

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type Item Price
CPU Intel - Core i7-7820X 3.6GHz 8-Core Processor $569.00 @ Amazon
CPU Cooler Scythe - Mugen 5 Rev. B 51.2 CFM CPU Cooler $47.99 @ Amazon
Motherboard MSI - X299 TOMAHAWK ARCTIC ATX LGA2066 Motherboard $279.99 @ Amazon
Memory G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory $218.99 @ Amazon
Memory G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory $218.99 @ Amazon
Memory G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory $218.99 @ Amazon
Memory G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory $218.99 @ Amazon
Storage SanDisk - SSD PLUS 480GB 2.5" Solid State Drive $129.99 @ Amazon
Storage SanDisk - SSD PLUS 480GB 2.5" Solid State Drive $129.99 @ Amazon
Storage Hitachi - Ultrastar 7K3000 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $67.35 @ Amazon
Storage Hitachi - Ultrastar 7K3000 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $67.35 @ Amazon
Storage Hitachi - Ultrastar 7K3000 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $67.35 @ Amazon
Storage Hitachi - Ultrastar 7K3000 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $67.35 @ Amazon
Storage Hitachi - Ultrastar 7K3000 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $67.35 @ Amazon
Storage Hitachi - Ultrastar 7K3000 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $67.35 @ Amazon
Video Card Zotac - GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB Mini Video Card -
Case NZXT - H630 (White) ATX Full Tower Case $123.60 @ Amazon
Power Supply Silverstone - Strider Platinum 550W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply -
Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
Total $2560.62
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-01-10 21:12 EST-0500

Key features:

128Gb DDR4 ram, Six 2Tb Drives configured in Raid 1+0 Data storage and Two SSD for Raid 0 Operations, 12Gb Dedicated as OS Ramdrive.

The GFX Card is low profile but the Swiss army knife of cards that can take a beating. While the motherboard can be expanded to handle 3 sli graphic cards.

Usage:

  • Run Gaming Windows in real time with the Linux Servers without skipping a beat.
  • Day Trading
  • And doing fun time, lan party!!
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Had to make an unplanned PC purchase this week as my mother board bit the dust.
Went with:
i7-8700K 6-Core Processor
GTX 1080 with 8GB GDDR5X Graphics Memory
32GB Quad Channel DDR4 at 2666MHz (4x8GB)
1TB M.2 PCIe x4 SSD
1TB SDD
2 6TB 7200 RPM drives

Dell put it all together for less than I could buy the parts online

Would be interested in seeing your benchmark numbers once you are built.

#3

Yes please! Benchmarks and pics or it doesn’t exist :wink:

#4

My home workstation is going on 10 years old - an i5-750 w/ 8GB of memory and a positively decadent - and silly - SLI arrangement on the graphics accelerator (got the cards for free a few years ago, necessitating a beefy PSU). While today’s 10 year-old workstation isn’t as intolerably long in the tooth as the same situation 10 years ago, it’s still aging.

I confess to being tempted by the brute-force power computing power that the new-ish AMD Threadripper chips offer. With the present rate of change, such a platform could remain viable for another 10 years, properly equipped. But I’m also not gaming anymore with consistency and conveniently forgot to install a torrent client on the present rig.

#5

I contemplated going AMD for this build. However Ubuntu 16 has a lot of issues with Ryzen so I opt to stick with something that’s highly supported across all OS’s and applications.

Sure, one can just install the ubuntu subsystem but in some cases I’d like to jump into pure linux or even android x86 instead of having them in the hypervisor.

#6

Finally got time to run PassMark Bench Mark 6675.4… not a bad number
https://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm
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