$1500 for a computer

My laptops are no longer cutting it.
I have $1500 to build a beast of a computer.
We're talkin' i7, 12GB ram (the more the better 16gb )
Help me build one!, components from newegg.ca
I already own a geforce 9800GT if that can be used towards it great!

What will I be doing with this beast?
- Moderate gaming (Flight Simulator X on max graphics)
- Photoshop
- After effects (heavy effects)
- HD video rendering, realtime editing.
Basically very graphic intensive, I want to be able to edit HD footage smoooothly and rendering should be a breeze.

Computer guru's i choose you!

Processor - http://www.newegg.ca …aspx?Item=N82E1​6819115211 - Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06GHz - $309.99

Motherboard - http://www.newegg.ca …spx?Item=N82E16​813131665- ASUS Sabertooth X58 - $209.99

RAM - http://www.newegg.ca …aspx?Item=N82E1​6820231405 - G.SKILL RipJaws 12gb(3x4gb) DDR3 - $209.99

SSD (Boot Drive) - http://www.newegg.ca …aspx?Item=N82E1​6820233122 - Corsair 32gb SSD - $74.99

HDD (Data Drive) - http://www.newegg.ca …aspx?Item=N82E1​6822152185 - Samsung Spinpoint 1tb 7200RPM - $74.99

Blu-Ray Burner - http://www.newegg.ca …?ItemList=N82E1​6827136181 - LG 10X Blu-Ray Burner - $119.99

DVD Burner - http://www.newegg.ca …aspx?Item=N82E1​6827136216 - LG SuperMultiDrive - $19.99

Heatsink + Fan - http://www.newegg.ca …aspx?Item=N82E1​6835103057 - CoolerMaster N520 - $32.99

Thermal Grease - http://www.newegg.ca …aspx?Item=N82E1​6835100007 - Antec Silver 5 - $9.99

Power Supply - http://www.newegg.ca …aspx?Item=N82E1​6817139006 - 750W Corsair - $129.99

Case - http://www.newegg.ca …aspx?Item=N82E1​6811129066 - $69.99

You can use your 9800GT for your card if you aren't gaming hardcore like Crysis, I hear FSX is more CPU intensive than card intensive. If you want a boost, though, you could use another 9800GT in SLI. Probably cheap to pick one up.

Total for the above is $1,262.89 - not including shipping. Looked up a random Surrey, BC postal code, it hiked it up to about 8 bucks under $1500.

The US version of this was only $1200, I'd guess probably $1300 with shipping.

You can leave the Blu-Ray burner out if you don't do any blu-ray material, of course, which would save some money (and grab another DVD-RW for $20, having two is nice..).

Just my throw at it, I'm willing to hear criticism or see other people's builds!

I will take a stab (oh snaps, just made a list using Newegg.com and not newegg.ca .....) Anyway here is an Idea. This is under the assumption you will be bringing in your own HD's and OS...

Bah, Newegg is being retarded and not letting me post the wishlist publicly, so will just list the parts here:

-NZXT Temptest Evo Case
-ASUS P8P67 Deluxe LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
-Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor
-G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model (times 4)
-ASUS EAH5850 DirectCU TOP/2DIS/1GD5 Radeon HD 5850 (Cypress Pro) 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support (Times 2)
-CORSAIR HX Series CMPSU-1000HX 1000W ATX12V 2.2 / EPS12V 2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC

Came out to be about $1530, so close enough to $1500. I think this is pretty overkill though and you could step some of those things down and get other things such as an OEM OS (unless you already have that lined up), extra hard drives, a solid state OS drive, and I didn't throw in a DVD burner because you should be able to take one out of an exsisting PC.

I have the NZXT temptest case and a rig I built about 2 years ago now that runs fantastic and works well for me for photoshop and lightroom. Case can hold at a minimum of 8 HDD's inside and be fan cooled. Hope this gets you in the right direction, but I would totally revamp some of those items if it were me building it for myself LOL!

Edit:

Ford Mustang already beat me to it and has links, that should be a good place to get you started! Good luck and have fun, building computers is pretty fun stuff.

I'm not sure that'll even need 750W... Should also budget in case fans. OP didn't mention how big/small of a case he wants.

SSDs will supposedly drop in price/GB when the new Intel drives come out in the next month or two.

edit: just did a power estimate roughly using Ford Mustang's specs, but with a 9800GT SLI and some PCI cards and a few other minor things. Recommendation is 492W.
http://extreme.outervi​sion.com/psucalculator​lite.jsp

size does not matter to me, hardware does

Ford Mustang wrote in post #11615908
Processor - http://www.newegg.ca …aspx?Item=N82E1​6819115211 - Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06GHz - $309.99

SNIP

My big complaint is the sucky Corsair PSU and the fact that it's built on the X58 platform, when it should really be done with with a P67.

SSD is also kinda meh. OCZ Vertex 2 would be my preference in that price range.

If you stay with 1TB drives, try to find them with SATA III and do them in a RAID 1 pair. Consider 2 of the Seagate 2TB 7200rpm installed as a RAID 1 pair on SATA III connectors. That should provide lots of fast and reliable storage.

MCAsan wrote in post #11616952
If you stay with 1TB drives, try to find them with SATA III and do them in a RAID 1 pair. Consider 2 of the Seagate 2TB 7200rpm installed as a RAID 1 pair on SATA III connectors. That should provide lots of fast and reliable storage.

RAID 1 and SATA III have nothing to do with each other. SATA II will be fine.

Never meant to say they did. Personally I want the fastest possible disk access...SATA III versus SATA II given a choice. And today we have choices both on the mobo and HD side.

Each PC owner has to decide if they are happy enough with FW 800, USB 2, SATA I or II....or...if they want to also have USB 3, or SATA III in their new machines. Personally I want my SSD and RAID 1 pair on SATA III controllers if possible.

Would HDDs in RAID on SATA III even matter? It was my understanding that HDDs can't take advantage of the bandwidth since they're so slow, and it was only SSDs that can use the extra bandwidth that SATA III offers.

My thinking is that a decent SB rig for images 'n such will have native performance such that tweaking and peaking won't give you any usable advantage, so rather stay on solid ground with the latest solid parts and have a stable and reliable machine that will do what you want to do with ease.

In the past we have been more or less forced to OC and tweak to get better performance than the lunky average, to the point that OCing and tweaking became a sport unto itself. I think now that with the new generations of hardware like SB OCing and tweaking are less likely to give us anything effectively usable other than boasting rights.

Just get the best and most solid parts you can afford and try that first, rather than try for the screaming edge that is more likely to give you trouble than anything useful.

why not get an i5 2500k? they are on sale at microcenter for under 200.

Ford Mustang wrote in post #11615908
Processor - http://www.newegg.ca …aspx?Item=N82E1​6819115211 - Intel Core i7-950 Bloomfield 3.06GHz - $309.99

I would go with a Sandy Bridge processor.

If you have $1500, you could get the 2600K. The 2500K is adequate for most people, however.