Make your ultimate PC!

[JEMC]

ganoncrotch said:

JEMC said:

My ultimate PC would actually be two.

I'd go with a CaseLab case or something similar capable of housing two computers, an everyday PC and a gaming monster PC.

The everyday PC would be based on a Mini-ITX board, a low en Pentium processor with 4GB and a 500GB SSD for storage. The idea is to have a low power PC that can be left on while consuming next to nothing in power. And the best part is that it would be more than enough for almost anything but gaming (web surfing, email, some Office, video playback, etc.)

The Gaming monster would be an X99 based PC with an i7-5930K (no need for the higher end as this one has the same 40 PCI-E lanes and can overclock better), 64GB of fast RAM, an stupidly fast 512GB M.2 drive for OS and 4x1TB SSD in a double RAID setup (2 in RAID 0 and the other two in a RAID 1 mode for safety) and two 980Ti cards (again, because they overclock better than Titan X). And all of it would be cooled by a double loop (reservoir -> pump1 -> CPU -> 120mm Radiator -> pump2 -> GPUs -> 360mm Radiator -> reservoir).

With the help of a splitter, the same keyboard and mouse would be used for both PCs that would also drive the same display, a 34" 3440x1440 UltraWide monitor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested_RAID_levels#RAID_10 There is a phrase for this pair in raid 0 being mirrored already, not correctly spoken as raid ten tho, tis a great setup if you would really worry about the games stored on them but not worried about your OS drive? seems a little strange to me, games are rather easy to download compared to your exact OS settings.

Also the name for the splitter is a kvm (keyboard video mouse) switch so if you're looking for them they can be rather cheap... for rather cheap builds, you'd need something a lot bigger than http://www.amazon.co.uk/Aten-CS22U-2-Port-Cable-Switch/dp/B002NTIZCG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1452077980&sr=8-1&keywords=kvm for a display of that resolution but still they're not that expensive if you or anyone happens to have a setup with 2 PCs at the same desk, I'd say if you were doing your dream set up tho it would be really class if you could integrate the switch on the side of the case so it could be concealed and operated from the outside.

I was thinking would it not be a bother if you wanted to tab back and forth from gaming to working... but with that amount of bandwidth on your SSD's you could boot the gaming PC in less time than some peoples machines can alt tab from a game heh.

 

OS could be installed relatively easy, and I don't really mess too much with it, so I would get it sorted in 30 min or so. Downloading all the games again would take a lot more time and I'd lost my savegames, something that would piss me more than everything else.

About your splitter/KVM confuses me. Do I really have to connect it to the monitor? I assumed to use the kvm only to connect the same pair of keyboard+mouse to both PCs and connect them directly to the monitor.