30k Development Rig

furious_gamer

furious_gamer

Excessive happiness
1. What is the purpose of the computer? What all applications and games are you going to run? (Stupid answers like 'gaming' or 'office work' will not work. Be exact. Which games? Which applications? Avoid the word 'et cetera.')
Ans: Development Apps like Eclipse, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Application Server, Database Server simultaneously

2. What is your overall budget? If you can extend a bit for a more balanced configuration, then mention this too.
Ans: 30k, can extend to another 2-3k, if needed

3. Planning to overclock?
Ans: No

4. Which Operating System are you planning to use?
Ans: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit

5. How much hard drive space is needed?
Ans: 500 Gigs will do.

6. Do you want to buy a monitor? If yes, please mention which screen size and resolution do you want. If you already have a monitor and want to reuse it, again mention the size and resolution of monitor you have.
Ans:Yes. Prefer 19",20".

7. Which components you DON'T want to buy or which components you already have and plan on reusing?
Ans: GPU. Onboard GPU is more than enough. No DVD Writer/Reader.

8. When are you planning to buy the system?
Ans: By April 1st

9. Have you ever built a desktop before or will this be done by an assembler?
Ans: This will be done by assembler, because going to buy at least 6 rigs

10. Where do you live? Are you buying locally? Are you open to buying stuff from online shops if you don't get locally?
Ans: locally in Bangalore

11. Anything else which you would like to say?
Ans: No fancy, gaming items. Need solid Keyboard+Mouse as it is purely for development and developer should not feel irritated because of cheap KB+Mouse. No DVD RW needed.
 
harshilsharma63

harshilsharma63

DIY FTW!
Option 1:

fx 8350 (11000)
Asus m5a97 (6800)
Zotac GTX 630 (2500) as fx 8350 has no onboard video
G.Skill ripjaws or sniper or corsair vengance (go with the chrapest) 1600 MHz 4 GB (2000)
WD blue / seagate barracuda 500 GB (3000)
Corsair CX430v2 (2500)
Dell st2240 22" led monitor (8000)

total: 35800

Option 2:

i5 3450 (11000) I think you can get i5 3570 in the same price locally
Gigabyte B75M DH3 (4000)
G.Skill ripjaws or sniper or corsair vengance (go with the chrapest) 1600 MHz 4 GB (2000)
WD blue / seagate barracuda 500 GB (3000)
Corsair CX430v2 (2500)
Dell st2240 22" led monitor (8000)

total: 30500

If you can, then go with option 1, else, option 2 is good.
 
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getvmurali

Broken In
harshilsharma63 said:
Option 1:

fx 8350 (11000)
Asus m5a97 (6800)
Zotac GTX 630 (2500) as fx 8350 has no onboard video
G.Skill ripjaws or sniper or corsair vengance (go with the chrapest) 1600 MHz 4 GB (2000)
WD blue / seagate barracuda 500 GB (3000)
Corsair CX430v2 (2500)
Dell st2240 22" led monitor (8000)

total: 35800


If you can, then go with option 1, else, option 2 is good.
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+ 1 for the AMD rig. But is the GTX enough for this work?
 
harshilsharma63

harshilsharma63

DIY FTW!
i5 3450 (11000) I think you can get i5 3570 in the same price locally
Gigabyte B75M DH3 (4000)
G.Skill ripjaws or sniper or corsair vengance (go with the chrapest) 1600 MHz 4 GB (2000)
WD blue / seagate barracuda 500 GB (3000)
Corsair CX430v2 (2500)
Dell in2030 20" led monitor (6500)
NZXT Gamma (2500)
TVS Gold mechanical kb (is it priced at 1500?)
And Logitech mouse (300)

total (if KB is prices at 1500): 33200

I think youo should get a CM 310 for 1800 and get additional 4 GB of RAM.

getvmurali said:
+ 1 for the AMD rig. But is the GTX enough for this work?
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Yes GTX 630 is okay as there is no graphic intensive work going on. It is included just because FX 8350 does not have an IGP.
 
ASHISH65

ASHISH65

Technomancer
harshilsharma63 said:
i5 3450 (11000) I think you can get i5 3570 in the same price locally
Gigabyte B75M DH3 (4000)
G.Skill ripjaws or sniper or corsair vengance (go with the chrapest) 1600 MHz 4 GB (2000)
WD blue / seagate barracuda 500 GB (3000)
Corsair CX430v2 (2500)
Dell in2030 20" led monitor (6500)
NZXT Gamma (2500)
TVS Gold mechanical kb (is it priced at 1500?)
And Logitech mouse (300)

total (if KB is prices at 1500): 33200

I think youo should get a CM 310 for 1800 and get additional 4 GB of RAM.


Yes GTX 630 is okay as there is no graphic intensive work going on. It is included just because FX 8350 does not have an IGP.
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it is 'GT 630' not gtx.i suggest to get hd 6570 1gb at same price and is better than gt 630 and i believe photoshop uses opencl
 
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