Non-Gaming PC

gravity12

Hi guys,

First I'd like to say thanks to everyone for all the information in other threads which has helped me a lot in putting together this build especially deconduo and cuddlesworth.

I'm mainly going to be using this pc for running VM's and streaming movies to the xbox, I won't be doing any gaming on it. For this reason i've gone with a lot of ram and two hardrive's to split the iops across the drives with a SSD to hold the primary OS or ESXi. I've only added the graphics card so I can have two monitors (still to decide on which monitors)

Could I get you guys to give the once over of my build and get your thoughts please.


Thanks


Total BuildCost plus 30 euros shipping 772.06

Intel Core i5-2500K Box, LGA1155 174.57
ASUS EAH5450/DI/1GD3 (LP), ATI Radeon HD 5450, 1GB, PCI-Express 46.11
ASRock P67 Pro3 (B3), Sockel 1155, ATX 83.63
Samsung SH-222AB bare schwarz SATA 16.63
Super-Flower Amazon 80Plus 550W 52.05
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1,5TB, SATA II (HD155UI) 51.69
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1,5TB, SATA II (HD155UI) 51.69
16GB-Kit G.Skill RipJaws PC3-10667U CL9 71.30
Crucial M4 64GB SSD 6,4cm (2,5") 87.14
ASUS PCE-N10 17.50
FRACTAL DESIGN Gehäuse DEFINE R3 Titanium Grey 89.75

Teutorix

If you spent another €50 that would be a kick ass gaming PC.

Put the HDDs in RAID 0 if you werent already planning that.

Monotype

You could get a Z68 board and run two monitors on that.

gravity12

Could I replace the P67 motherboard with this Z68 one and drop the graphics card?

ASRock Z68 Pro3 (B3), Sockel 1155, ATX

Teutorix

That should do the trick, the 2500k is pretty good when it comes to integrated graphics.

gravity12

Thanks Teutorix.

Would the PSU be powerful enough for all the components?

Teutorix

http://www1.hardwareversand.de/articledetail.jsp?aid=24479&agid=1629

I would go with this to be sure to be sure. It also allows room for expansion should you want to upgrade to a high end graphics card or other power hungry parts at some stage.

Monotype

Without the graphics card I would actually go down to the 450W. There'd still be room for something like a 6850 + overclocking or a load of hard drives.

Teutorix

Monotype wrote: »

Without the graphics card I would actually go down to the 450W. There'd still be room for something like a 6850 + overclocking or a load of hard drives.

Forgot he was getting rid of the card altogether. :rolleyes: Silly me.

gravity12

Thanks Monotype.

I'm thinking of the BenQ G2420HD as dual monitors recommended in other threads.

Monotype

The colours aren't fantastic in them but they're good value for what you're getting from size, ports and general performance.