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This build is based on a budget of around $2000, if your budged is around $1000 you probably want to follow the progress on this build instead.

Build

Current Build
Category Specification
Chasis CoolerMaster Cosmos 1000
CPU Intel Core i7-960 Bloomfield 3.2GHz 1366 Quad-Core
Motherboard ASUS P6T7 WS Supercomputer
Graphics Processor BGF Tech nVidia GeForce GTX 280
RAM OCZ 6 GB DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800/OverClock)
Chasis Cooling 2 Top, 1 Back, 1 Bottom Chassis Fans
CPU Cooling Cooler Master Hyper N520 CPU Cooling
Main Hard Drive Crucial 64 GB Solid State Drive
Storage Hard Drive Western Digital 1 TB HDD @ 7200
Power Supply CoolerMaster UCP 900 Watts
Optical Drive LITE-ON 24X DVD+R 24X DVD-R SATA LightScribe
Display Sharp Aquos 32" HD LCD 1080p


Updates - My Progress (and costs) To-Date

Things I have already purchased ($1896 Total)

Chasis Motherboard CPU Cooling Graphics Card Power Supply Static Guard
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Cooler Master Cosmos 1000
(NewEgg $179.99)		 ASUS P6T7 WS Supercomputer
(NewEgg OpenBox $307.99)		 Cooler Master Hyper N520
(TigerDirect $39.99)		 BFG NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
(TigerDirect $269.99)		 Cooler Master UCP 900W
(NewEgg $69.89)		 Ultra Antistatic Wrist Strap
(TigerDirect $6.99)


More things I've already purchased

Intel Core i7 CPU Solid State HD Hard Drive 2 DVD/CD Burner OCZ DDR3 RAM Asus Wireless Adapter
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Intel Core i7-960 Bloomfield 3.2GHz 1366 Quad-Core (NewEgg $589.99) Crucial 2.5" 64GB SATA II (NewEgg $224.99) Western Digital 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s (NewEgg $99.99) LITE-ON 24X DVD+R 24X DVD-R SATA LightScribe (NewEgg $28.99) OCZ 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) (NewEgg $157.99) ASUS PCE-N13 IEEE 802.11b/g/n PCI Express Wireless Adapter Up to 300Mbps (NewEgg $39.99)


Things I plan on buying

Fan Controller Transparent Side Panel Heat-sink Gel
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AeroCool Touch 2000 (NewEgg $59.99) COOLER MASTER Transparent Acrylic Side Window (NewEgg $29.99) Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (NewEgg $6.99)


Things I said I was going to buy, but at last second I changed my mind

  • GPU - EVGA GeForce GTX 280 Superclocked (NewEgg $354.99)
  • Mobo - EVGA E758-A1 3SLI (x16/x16/x8) 1366 Intel X58 Core i7 Crossfire E-LEET OverClocking (NewEgg $299.99)

Notes

Jan 7th, 2010

About 3 days after I purchased the Cosmos Chassis, NewEgg released a combo deal that paired the Cosmos 1000 ($200 retail) with a 900W Cooler Master power supply ($200 retail) for a total of $249.97 to my dismay. I used their online chat support and the rep agreed to hook me up with the powersupply at the combo price, thus I got myself a $200 power supply at $70 bucks. Things going good so far! I've been reading a lot of reviews and buyer comments, and I'm starting to get an idea of what to look for in a processor and motherboard (mobo). I've gleaned that you shouldn't buy a mobo that has more than you need. Match it with the chip you want (in my case I'm going to go with an i7 Intel 1333 processor), the speed of your desired RAM (I'm shooting for 1600+) and don't buy the latest model and anything with lots of options that you don't know anything about. This sounds pretty reasonable, but when the mobos are are all lined up in the online store, I'm tempted to pay 15 dollars more for feature X and 10 dollars more for feature Y and so on, until I'm about $150 dollars from the original board I was after. Finally, always always always read the customer reviews.


Jan 19th, 2010

As I'm shaking the change out of my piggy bank, I'll update ya'll on my second "big" round of purchases. On paper, I feel like I've won this round; but only time will tell, and that time is whenever UPS makes with the merchandise. I've found out several things about myself the last few days. 1) I have an unrelenting thirst for the optimal setup for my budget. 2) I'm not really sure what my budget is. And 3) I'm able to haggle... with myself. Oh, here's a ProTip for ya, NewEgg charges sales tax to goods shipped in California, TigerDirect does not. After checking the open-box items every few hours at these two fine online suppliers, I found an ASUS P6T7 WS Supercomputer mobo for $150 off retail, and $100 off what they're charging for unopened boxes at their own online stores. So I immediately went to YouTube to check the benchmarks for this beast, and not only did it crush the EVGA mobo I had in mind, since it was open box it was cheaper than EVGA, aaaaand the YouTube video that was demoing the ASUS board was doing so in a CoolerMaster Cosmos 1000. Haaa! Bradley Monakhos 01:47, 20 January 2010 (UTC)


Jan 20th 2010
II. Open Box Refund Only Return Policy
1. Summary
  • Return for refund within: 30 days
  • Return for replacement within: non-replaceable
2. Detail
If you purchase an Open-Box product Newegg guarantees only that you will receive the product itself; 
accessories MAY OR MAY NOT BE INCLUDED with Open-Box products. Newegg will not send you a missing accessory, 
even if the missing accessory is required in order to properly make use of all the product’s advertised functions.

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Jan 21st 2010

So far I'm at $875 spent. I still need to get the CPU, RAM, and Hard Drive in order to have a working computer. There are a few other things I could add (i.e. DVD burner, fan controller, etc.), but just those three things for now. The CPU is pretty much set, the Intel i7 3.2 GHz is around $590 and it's not going to change for a while. The RAM and HDD are still somewhat up in the air. I know I want a solid state HDD for my boot drive, and I know I want OCZ branded RAM. That's about $160 for 6 GB of DDR3 RAM and $270 for a 60 GB OCZ solid state HDD. That puts me at about $1000 left. If the computer works, said and done at $1875 and I'm a happy camper because that is what I spent on my Macbook Pro; the Macbook Pro that comes out around 7 years from now will be about as fast as this computer I will have finished building in a few weeks.

Chassis

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Any computer that is scheduled to last around the decade is going to require the right chassis. There are a couple of important factors to consider when purchasing a shell for the components.

  • Cooling
  • Board Compatibility
  • Stacking Ability
  • Aesthetics and Durability
  • Cable Management
  • Drive Bays
  • Tower Space
  • Front Ports

After doing a bit of research I've decided to go with the Cosmos 1000 by Cooler Master. It has a nice combination of features which include: tool-free Structure, tree kit side panel installation, finger pressing buttons for quickly maintaining or upgrading 5.25" drive devices, detachable aluminum HDD trays, an air intake system (dual bottom an intakes to draw in cool air and reduces system noise), 120 mm bottom Ian fans, detachable aluminum HDD, stacking feature that optimizes cooling performance.

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Full Steal Tower
Extended ATX, ATX
Four 120mm Fans
USB2.0 x 4, IEEE 1394 x 1, Audio x 2, eSATA x 1


CPU/Processor

What I could afford

Intel Core i7-960 3.2 GHz 8M L3 Cache LGA1366

What I want

Intel Core i7-975 Extreme Edition 3.33 GHz 8M L3 Cache LGA1366

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Cooling

CPU Cooler

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Stock Fans

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Possibly water cooling

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Motherboard

What I purchased
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ASUS P6T7 WS SuperComputer
The motherboard will achieve outstanding and dependable performance in the role of a Personal Supercomputer when working in tangent with discrete CUDA technology—providing unprecedented return on investment. Users can count on up to 4 CUDA cards(One of them should be Quadro graphic card) that are plugged into P6T7 WS SuperComputer for intensive parallel computing on tons of data, which delivers nearly 4 teraflops of performance (Benchmark Video). It is the best choice to work as a personal supercomputer on your desk instead of a computer cluster in a room.


What I was going to buy
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EVGA E760 CLASSIFIED "Overclocker's Pick" 3-Way SLI + PhysX 1366 Intel X58 EATX Intel Motherboard

The board is based on the Intel X58 platform and supports the Intel Core i7 processor. You can install up to 24GB of triple channel DDR3 1600+ memory to run the front side bus at full speed.

There are 4 PCIe x16 slots supporting 3-way SLI configuration. is the board has native support for Gigabit Ethernet and RAID, increasing throughput by eliminating bottlenecks on the motherboard. The Dual Gigabit ports support DualNet technology for a fast 2GB network connection. Plus, RAID levels 0, 1, 0+1, and 5 are supported flexible RAID application.

Memory

It's not that all RAM is created equal, it's just that all good RAM is pretty much the same. I have 6 GB of DDR2 in my Macbook Pro, and never max it out. So I think that 6 GB of DDR3 in this build will be plenty. If not, I always have the 64 GB Solid State HD for quick memory swapping.


The respected players in the world of RAM

  • OCZ
  • Corsair
  • Crucial
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These guys are also pretty good.

  • G.Skill
  • Kingston
  • Patriot


I only have first-hand experience with OCZ, Crucial, and G.Skill, and haven't had any problems with any of them.

Video Card 1

BFG Tech nVidia GeForce GTX 280 2GB 16X PCIe Video Card

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Video Card 2 and 3

Two more nVIDIA cards to come later for triple channel SLI.

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Dedicated PHYSX Card

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NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 512MB 16X PCI Express (Major Brand Powered by NVIDIA) [+102] More Brand Major Brand Powered by NVIDIA [+0] EVGA Powered by NVIDIA [+5]

To have the Dedicated PhysX Card option, you must:

  1. Select NVIDIA video card(s) as your primary video card.
  2. Select a motherboard with an appropriate number of PCI-E slots to accommodate your video card and Dedicated PhysX Card.


Multiple Video Card Settings

Non-SLI/Non-CrossFireX Mode Supports Multiple Monitors


Hard Drive

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Extreme Performance (RAID-0) with 2 Identical Hard Drives (600GB (300GBx2) Gaming Western Digital VelociRaptor 10,000RPM SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache WD3000GLFS)

512GB (256GBx2) Kingston 2.5 inch SATA Gaming MLC Solid State Disk (Nearly Instant Data Access Technology) [+1200]


Data Hard Drive

Single Hard Drive (1.5TB (1.5TBx1) SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 32MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)

160 GB Intel X25-M 2.5 inch SATA Gaming MLC Solid State Disk (Nearly Instant Data Access Technology) [+373]


Optical Drive 1

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LG BH08-LS20K 8X Internal Super Multi Blu-Ray Rewriter (Black Color) [+143]

Optical Drive 2

LG 22X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Dual Layer Drive (BLACK COLOR)


Sound

HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO

Creative Labs SB X-FI Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series PCI Express Sound Card [+199]


Network

Onboard Gigabit LAN Network

Killer Xeno Pro Gigabit High Speed Online Gaming PCI Network Interface Card [+99]



Extra Thermal Display

NZXT Sentry LX Aluminum High Performance Fan Control, Clock, & Temperature Display [+69]


Wireless 802.11B/G Network Card

Linksys WMP110 802.11 b/g/n Range Plus PCI Wireless Adapter Network Card [+66]


IEEE1394 Card: None

None

IEEE 1394 CARD AND DRIVER [+19]

Computer Case with SD/MMC Reader Inside, Screw-free Installation Model Number:H920-Mini desktop computer case


Power Supply

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Rosewill Xtreme Series RX950-D-B 950W Continuous @40°C ,80 PLUS Certified, ATX12V v2.2 & EPS12V v2.91, SLI Ready CrossFire Ready, Active PFC "Compatible with Core i7, i5" Power Supply - Retail

The Actual Build

The Work Station Motherboard Install
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Power Supply Install Cords Everywhere
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Power Supply Install Cords Everywhere
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Power Supply Install Cords Everywhere
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