I'd never built a computer before and was stoked about how easy and how much fun it was. I'm a web developer and decided that as my macbook was dying it was time to build a machine to crush all of the adobe cs tasks I needed it for and futureproof a little bit. I used this forum quite a bit in my research so I thought I'd share my experience upon completion. If anybody has questions, please feel free to ask.
Since I was planning to include a graphics card from the getgo and not planning to overclock I went with the Xeon e3 1230 v3 rather than the i7 options. I read that they are pretty much the same processor except for integrated graphics and over-clocking.
I also wanted a fairly compact computer, just for the sake of aesthetics. I live and work in a small house and didn't want to take up any more space than absolutely necessary.
Here's the build i ended up going with. I had a couple of hard drives already available so I stuck them in there to use as a RAID setup. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks
| Type | Item | Price |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | Intel Xeon E3-1230 V3 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor | $244.99 @ Amazon |
| CPU Cooler | Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler | $92.99 @ NCIX US |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte GA-Z87N-WIFI Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard | $128.90 @ SuperBiiz |
| Memory | Kingston Blu 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1333 Memory | $108.00 |
| Storage | Crucial M500 240GB 2.5" Solid State Disk | $0.00 |
| Storage | Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Disk | $149.99 @ NCIX US |
| Storage | Seagate Momentus XT 750GB 2.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive | $0.00 |
| Storage | Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive | $56.98 @ OutletPC |
| Video Card | EVGA GeForce GTX 760 2GB Superclocked ACX Video Card | $249.99 @ Amazon |
| Case | Corsair 250D Mini ITX Tower Case | $89.99 @ Amazon |
| Power Supply | EVGA SuperNOVA 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply | $102.18 @ Amazon |
| Total | ||
| Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available. | $1224.01 | |
| Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-04-29 17:23 EDT-0400 |
After a really easy setup and install using the tonymac guide, I did run into a couple problems with surprising solutions.
Mouse Lag/Jumping and Keyboard Freezing: Fixed by getting an extender for my logitech USB receiver to get it closer to the keyboard and mouse. I would never have guessed my problem was proximity until somebody pointed it out on one of the forums.
Could not log into App Store and iMessage: After reading all sorts of solutions to this problem I found the suprisingly simple, right one for me. I set my apple id password before the current password restrictions and just needed to reset my password to meet their criteria.
Here are a few photos of my competed build
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