- Joined
- Mar 5, 2015
- Messages
- 30
- Motherboard
- MSI-Z170-SLI Plus
- CPU
- i7-7700K
- Graphics
- GTX 1080
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
Components
Gigabyte GA Z97 D3H (Motherboard)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K2RQDLQ
Intel i3-4370 (Processor)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MOM88GK/
EVGA GTX 750 Ti (Graphics Card)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IDG3IDO/
Corsair Value Select 2x 4GB (Memory)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C8GQ12A/
Samsung EVO 850 500GB (SSD)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OBRE5UE/
Corsair VS450 (Power Supply)
[AMAZON-fr]http://www.amazon.fr/dp/B00B693ZNI[/AMAZON-fr]
Already Owned
Intel 320 Series 120G (SSD)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004TFXBMG/
LG 29" 21:9 29EA93V (Screen)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BJSB69Q/
NuForce uDAC 3 USB (Audio DAC)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FG9MJ6I/
Microsoft Sculpt (Keyboard)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CYX26BC/
Logitech 570 (Trackball)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0043T7FXE/
Comments
Here is my new build, I wanted something fast enough for everyday use (Safari, iPhoto, iTunes, SublimeText, Terminal, Ableton, VLC) and being able to play some video games without drawing too much watts (under windows).
After some research on GPUs and ended up with this chart :
Much disparities, and apparently not much efforts put into efficiency.
But I settled on a 750 Ti as the price is also to be taken into consideration.
On the CPU side it's much easier as Intel seems to have been working hard on power consumption for a while now.
Having an 8 core mac at work I know that having lots of cores does not necessarily means more comfort unless your applications are heavily optimized for multi-CPUs. So, I looked for something fast per thread, and at a decent price.
Finally choosing the i3 4370. This i3 customac feels more responsive (except when heavily loaded) than the MacPro at work (which does not support S-ATA 3). Photoshop CS4 startup on the customac
BIOS/UEFI
Nothing special
MultiBeast
Settings : View attachment Working.mb
System : MacPro 3,1
USB : USB 3.0 Universal or else it will freeze when some USB device gets plugged in.
Audio : not installed (external DAC has native support)
Ethernet : not installed (external USB-Ethernet has native support)
Chimera
Kernel Flags : nvda_drv=1
UseKernelCache : No
Benchmarks + Temperatures + Power consumption
CS:GO @2560x1080 maxed out (settings bellow) runs above 100fps under OSX and around 160fps under Windows 7.
Screenshots & photos
[video=youtube;upPQuciH9BY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upPQuciH9BY[/video]
Gigabyte GA Z97 D3H (Motherboard)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K2RQDLQ
Intel i3-4370 (Processor)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MOM88GK/
EVGA GTX 750 Ti (Graphics Card)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IDG3IDO/
Corsair Value Select 2x 4GB (Memory)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C8GQ12A/
Samsung EVO 850 500GB (SSD)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OBRE5UE/
Corsair VS450 (Power Supply)
[AMAZON-fr]http://www.amazon.fr/dp/B00B693ZNI[/AMAZON-fr]
Already Owned
Intel 320 Series 120G (SSD)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004TFXBMG/
LG 29" 21:9 29EA93V (Screen)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BJSB69Q/
NuForce uDAC 3 USB (Audio DAC)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FG9MJ6I/
Microsoft Sculpt (Keyboard)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CYX26BC/
Logitech 570 (Trackball)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0043T7FXE/
Comments
Here is my new build, I wanted something fast enough for everyday use (Safari, iPhoto, iTunes, SublimeText, Terminal, Ableton, VLC) and being able to play some video games without drawing too much watts (under windows).
After some research on GPUs and ended up with this chart :
Much disparities, and apparently not much efforts put into efficiency.
But I settled on a 750 Ti as the price is also to be taken into consideration.
On the CPU side it's much easier as Intel seems to have been working hard on power consumption for a while now.
Having an 8 core mac at work I know that having lots of cores does not necessarily means more comfort unless your applications are heavily optimized for multi-CPUs. So, I looked for something fast per thread, and at a decent price.
Finally choosing the i3 4370. This i3 customac feels more responsive (except when heavily loaded) than the MacPro at work (which does not support S-ATA 3). Photoshop CS4 startup on the customac
BIOS/UEFI
Nothing special
MultiBeast
Settings : View attachment Working.mb
System : MacPro 3,1
USB : USB 3.0 Universal or else it will freeze when some USB device gets plugged in.
Audio : not installed (external DAC has native support)
Ethernet : not installed (external USB-Ethernet has native support)
Chimera
Kernel Flags : nvda_drv=1
UseKernelCache : No
Benchmarks + Temperatures + Power consumption
CS:GO @2560x1080 maxed out (settings bellow) runs above 100fps under OSX and around 160fps under Windows 7.
Screenshots & photos
[video=youtube;upPQuciH9BY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upPQuciH9BY[/video]
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