New PC - 2012

Rico · June 30, 2012, 10:07:19 AM

Well, for a few months now I have been planning on building a new, main PC for myself (my current main machine is about 4 years old now). Been looking over lots of articles, specs, reviews, etc. and finally settled on the parts I wanted and ordered them. They got dropped off by UPS yesterday and I'm excited to get going on this. It's going to be a Windows 7 Professional 64 bit box with an Ivy bridge i5 processor, 8 gigs of RAM, an amazing ASUS motherboard, a 180GB solid state drive, and so on. Should run very fast - of course. Details below:

MB ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe Z77 LGA1155
Intel i5 3570K
GSkill F3-12800CL9D-8GB
EVGA GTX570 R
Corsair 180GB SSD
Corsair PSU-850W

MARKO · June 30, 2012, 10:13:43 AM

Rico... congrats on the new purchase...are you building it over the weekend?

Rico · June 30, 2012, 10:15:17 AM

Oh, I forgot to mention I may put the Mac OS X on this too either using a dual boot method or VMware. The other option is to turn my old PC into a Hackintosh. Haven't decided yet which is the best way to go.

Rico · June 30, 2012, 10:16:03 AM

Quote from: MARKO on June 30, 2012, 10:13:43 AM
Rico... congrats on the new purchase...are you building it over the weekend?

Hope to do that. Today is a bit busy but I may try to start putting the parts in place at least.

MARKO · June 30, 2012, 10:43:36 AM

a warm day a cold beer and techy stuff... love it.

Ktrek · June 30, 2012, 10:43:54 AM

Nice! :metallica:

Rico · June 30, 2012, 11:01:49 AM

Quote from: MARKO on June 30, 2012, 10:43:36 AM
a warm day a cold beer and techy stuff... love it.

Agreed!

Now, I just need to figure out a way to connect the flux capacitor to generate the 1.21 gigawatts this baby will need to allow me to time travel too!

1.21 gigawatts?! - Dr. Brown & Marty - Back to the future

Dangelus · June 30, 2012, 11:11:54 AM

Quote from: Rico on June 30, 2012, 10:15:17 AM
Oh, I forgot to mention I may put the Mac OS X on this too either using a dual boot method or VMware. The other option is to turn my old PC into a Hackintosh. Haven't decided yet which is the best way to go.

Have fun Hackintoshing. Did that for a while myself.

Rico · June 30, 2012, 11:23:27 AM

Quote from: Dangelus on June 30, 2012, 11:11:54 AM
Quote from: Rico on June 30, 2012, 10:15:17 AM
Oh, I forgot to mention I may put the Mac OS X on this too either using a dual boot method or VMware. The other option is to turn my old PC into a Hackintosh. Haven't decided yet which is the best way to go.

Have fun Hackintoshing. Did that for a while myself.

Which route did you take Dan? Dual boot? Did you have any hardware issues?

MARKO · June 30, 2012, 11:46:30 AM

Rico.... did you ever consider an i5 or i7 iMAC? Pricey but what apiece of hardware!

Rico · June 30, 2012, 11:53:30 AM

Quote from: MARKO on June 30, 2012, 11:46:30 AM
Rico.... did you ever consider an i5 or i7 iMAC? Pricey but what apiece of hardware!

Considered, but I need a speedy, top notch Windows PC much more for what I do.

Dangelus · June 30, 2012, 11:58:51 AM

Quote from: Rico on June 30, 2012, 11:23:27 AM
Quote from: Dangelus on June 30, 2012, 11:11:54 AM
Quote from: Rico on June 30, 2012, 10:15:17 AM
Oh, I forgot to mention I may put the Mac OS X on this too either using a dual boot method or VMware. The other option is to turn my old PC into a Hackintosh. Haven't decided yet which is the best way to go.

Have fun Hackintoshing. Did that for a while myself.

Which route did you take Dan? Dual boot? Did you have any hardware issues?

Yeah I dual booted, well technically I just installed to a separate HDD and manually chose which to boot up as it was simpler than configuring the bootloader.

There are always hardware issues. You'll most likely need to install custom kexts (Apple for drivers) for audio and graphics but you might get lucky. Some motherboards work with "vanilla" installs.

I had Snow Leopard then Lion running pretty much perfectly after a few hours research.

Some good resources where you can research the compatibility of your hardware:

http://tonymacx86.com/

http://insanelymac.com/

Depending on what you want to do you may just want to run a VM. You can acquire Pre-built virtualbox and VMware images pretty easily (but not exactly legal) although they are tricky to do build yourself. They run pretty quickly but you don't get graphics acceleration so a lot of apps (like Pages) don't run and USB mics dont work well.

billybob476 · June 30, 2012, 01:47:17 PM

I'm contemplating converting my Doghouse over to an SSD. Just not sure what size I'll need. I was aiming for 250 gig with a terabyte 'data' drive. I'll be interested to hear how the 180 serves you as a system drive. Will you be putting a bigger spinning disk in there as well?

Rico · June 30, 2012, 05:08:08 PM

Yes, there will be other hard disc drives for games, video, etc. For a system drive and a few common programs 180 GB should be fine. Bigger is always nice, but there start to jump in price quite a bit as you increase size on an SSD.

Dangelus · July 01, 2012, 02:04:43 AM

180Gb is MORE than enough for a system drive and all. All content drives should be physical drives anyway so that sounds like a neat setup.