My First Custom Rig...Whatcha think?

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     I just ordered my very own custom rig...Mainly to handle Photoshop as I am a professional photographer.  I hope it's gonna be the beast I think it is...


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sisko Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List AVADirect Noob Joined: 31 Jul 2012 Location: United States Posts: 6	Quote Reply Topic: My First Custom Rig...Whatcha think? Posted: 10 Aug 2012 at 10:23am
	I just ordered my very own custom rig...Mainly to handle Photoshop as I am a professional photographer. I hope it's gonna be the beast I think it is... GAMING PC Core™ i5 / i7 Z68 2-way SLI® / CrossFireX™ Custom Gaming System INTEL Core™ i7-2700K Quad-Core 3.5 - 3.9GHz TB, HD Graphics 3000, LGA1155, 8MB L3 Cache, 32nm, 95W, EM64T EIST HT VT-x XD, Retail COOLER MASTER Vortex Plus CPU Cooler, Socket 1155/1156/1366/775/AM3/AM2/940/939/754, Copper/Aluminum GIGABYTE GA-Z68A-D3H-B3, LGA1155, Intel® Z68, DDR3-2133 32GB /4, PCIe x16 SLI CF /1+1*, SATA 3Gb/s RAID 5 /2, 6Gb/s /2, VGA+DVI+HDMI, USB 3.0 /2, HDA, GbLAN, ATX, Retail CRUCIAL 16GB (4 x 4GB) Ballistix Sport PC3-12800 DDR3 1600MHz CL9 (9-9-9-24) 1.5V SDRAM DIMM, Non-ECC ASUS HD7770-DC-1GD5, Radeon™ HD 7770 1020MHz, 1GB GDDR5 4600MHz, PCIe x16 CrossFire, DVI + HDMI + 2x mini-DP, Retail SEAGATE 2TB Barracuda®, SATA 6 Gb/s, 7200 RPM, 64MB cache RAID No RAID, Independent HDD Drives SABRENT CRW-UINB Black 65-in-1 Card Reader/Writer Drive, 3.5" Bay, Internal USB SONY AD-7280S Black 24x DVD±R/RW Dual-Layer Burner, SATA, OEM D-LINK DWA-556 Xtreme N™ Adapter, Draft 2.0 IEEE 802.11n, PCIe x1, Full-Height/Low-Profile ANTEC Three Hundred Black Mid-Tower Case, ATX, No PSU CUSTOM WIRING Standard Wiring with Precision Cable Routing and Tie-Down COOLER MASTER GX 650W, 80 PLUS®, 650W Power Supply, ATX12V 2.31 EPS12V, 2x 8/6-pin PCIe, SLI® Certified, Retail MICROSOFT Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Edition w/ SP1, OEM ACCESSORY AVADirect System Documentation and Media Binder MICROSOFT Wireless Media Desktop 1000, Keyboard & Mouse, Black, Wireless, USB, Retail LOGITECH Z130 Black 2.0 Stereo Speaker System, 5W RMS (2 x 2.5W) GAMING PC Silver Warranty Package (3 Year Limited Parts, 3 Year Labor Warranty) SERVICE Standard Shipping (UPS, DHL, or Fedex)

Jmundy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List AVADirect Staff AVADirect Sales Joined: 08 Apr 2008 Location: AVADirect HQ Posts: 1333	Quote Reply Posted: 10 Aug 2012 at 11:53am
	Hello sisko, Great, happy to hear you submitted an order with AVADirect! At this point, I think beast is an understatement. Just for the fact that you choose the 2700K processor, 16GB of RAM from Crucial, and an ATI Radeon HD 7770 graphics card you're going to be set for quite a while! I could have guessed you were using the system for photography; most who do usually have large hard disks, such as that Seagate 2TB Barracuda you selected. I may have brought this up before, but any reason why you did not consider a solid state disk? If you're using the system for photography, a solid state disk will go a long way with everything moving along quickly, in terms of applying layers, filters, modifications, and various CPU/storage/GPU intensive tasks. The more you match the important components of a computer, the less bottleneck you experience...just food for thought. Otherwise, excellent job putting this custom desktop system together!
	Joseph Mundy Assistant Sales Manager 1-216-503-6361 joseph.mundy@avadirect.com