High ram system (64Gb+)

[imabanana]

if you can water-cool a rack mount server, then yes spending that sort of money I expect a professional water-cooled solution

Not sure any of these high end servers use water cooling. As an IT pro (for quite a long time now) I've yet to see it used on any professional server, probably because risks are way too big for any data center to allow some kind of water running inside it, any leak and the whole place is at risk. What you gain from it is not worth the risk, simply buying x new servers for the same price is a much better option. Think HP did this long time ago, not sure they still do it now.

From a personal use point of view, water cooling might make sense, when talking about servers, that's usually pointless, modern server rack bays (and rooms) use really efficient and less risky cooling systems. Cooling everything at once through efficient air management system > water cooling... and anyone buying this kind of very high end servers buy a few of them, if you an afford these, you can't afford any down time, so you need back up in case a server fails (where I work right now we have about 10 servers with 1Tb each for the main website + backup + test... and I want to take one back home ;_; ).

[imabanana]

Old thread is old but... it's built \o/

Only having 32Gb ECC for now, but the build I went for allows me to upgrade up to 128. Went for something close to that:

CPU: Intel Xeon E5-1620 V3 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 103 43.1 CFM CPU Cooler
Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme4 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard
Memory: Kingston 16GB (1 x 16GB) Registered DDR4-2133 Memory
Memory: Kingston 16GB (1 x 16GB) Registered DDR4-2133 Memory
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
(lots of other HDD not linked)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 950 2GB Superclocked+ ACX 2.0 Video Card
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: Corsair RM 450W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

Screen for now is a basic 24" Samsung. Will probably get a better main screen soon and change that one to secondary. Memory is in 16Gb sticks so I can add 6x 16 again (which is max for this MB), Running 8.1 for now since I really don't like 10 changes to OneDrive (that I use a LOT).

So far performance has been awesome. On gaming everything I launched went without issues for max settings (most recent game was probably mad max). And on desktop use even with 5 tabs opened in Chrome I can still do something with my computer \o/

Also, Windows system rating thingy finds it balanced, every single score is between 8.2 and 8.4 (but I don't think that's any good indicator xD).

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Have a look at this, btw don't buy that corsair cx psu, its crap:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E5-1650 V3 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor ($564.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Thermaltake Water 3.0 Extreme 99.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($167.71 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty X99X Killer/3.1 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($283.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Crucial 64GB (4 x 16GB) Registered DDR4-2133 Memory ($509.98 @ Directron)
Memory: Crucial 64GB (4 x 16GB) Registered DDR4-2133 Memory ($509.98 @ Directron)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 380 4GB Video Card ($179.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro M ATX Mid Tower Case ($84.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $2361.61
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-11-05 02:56 EST-0500

nvm i thought u were still looking