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Thank you for your help. Walmart had the recommended PC right there on the shelf. We snatched it up, got it installed, and kept a small construction business moving. Thank you @Carl224 and @Dangman for sharing your smarts.

The construction business down the street is owned by a friend of ours and we help them with IT stuff when they have an emergency. A guy mowing the lawn hit the power pole, knocked out the electricity for a day and now that it is back up, their Sony PC purchased in November of 2005 won't boot...

Thank you, gentlemen. All of this good stuff has now been ordered as per the exact list in this thread. My boy told me 3 days ago that a rendering he was doing in Blender took 10 minutes to render 1 frame. He also figured out how to salvage at least part of his video when Blender crashes his...

Is this the one you suggest? SAMSUNG 840 Pro Series MZ-7PD256BW 2.5" 256GB

I see there are a few different versions of this SSD. Which one do you suggest?

I'm going to tell my son as much. I have no doubt that he appreciates the system he's getting. He's been asking me questions for a long time about what kind of PC he could get for $400. When I told him I'd match his funds, he was pretty overwhelmed and told me I was awesome. He doesn't yet...

UPDATE! My mother, who is an artist, just called and asked if my Blender boy wouldn't be better off with a Mac. I told her it would be like 2x the cost. Even though she was willing to significantly underwrite an Apple system, we're back to a PC (I guess I could have done the Boot Camp thing...

Thanks for the question, Danny. $1200 budget for everything, including monitor and Windows 8.

I see that Haswell is out so it is time to finally pull the trigger on my son's Blender/gaming system. Now, I just need to figure out - pull the trigger on what? After talking about it, we would like to go the desktop route (vs. a laptop). Given the present lay of the land and our...

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc The only thing this computer will be used for is for using RDP over a VPN to get on our terminal services server. This workstation uses two monitors that we already have (Samsung 723N). 2) What's your budget? Are...

That means I don't have to try and find it.

Thanks, Stoly. Aside from having more room to upgrade on the new platform, I don't know why we would want to pay more for a performance increase that isn't worth the babysitting money we'd spend on it. Somewhere, I have an old Fire GL card. Would that be of any value? It was expensive when...

I have an alert on my calendar to check Haswell and mobo availability July 26. Appreciate it, guys. My son is stoked upon hearing that I'll match his savings and build this together.

The cost of the OS is included in the budget but if the cost was the difference between "nice" system and "holy crap!" system, I'll pay more. The listed resolution is from a monitor I have at work. Perhaps I'll buy him a new monitor and up the budget. What do you think? I completely...

My boy has created several animations using Blender and has saved $400 in babysitting money to buy a PC. He was looking at Best Buy and I told him to wait till I talked to smart people (you) first. He has a $400 laptop he purchased last year but he can't play the games he wants and he said it...

R3d, I doubt our vendor is going to throw us some free training, but they are beating the bushes to find a good training solution. I would not have even considered asking them if not for the help in this thread. He's been with us for ~3 years. He's learned a lot through osmosis but I know...

Electrofreak, it is the best job I've ever had. I've already turned him on to these forums as a resource. R3d, the future setup will mirror the one we currently have. Windows active directory with an Exchange server, SQL server, Terminal Services server, and a file server that works as the...

Both myself and my replacement are blessed to work for a small business that doesn't suck. It's not perfect, but it is more like a family than it is a corporation. Another upside is that we get to do a lot of different things. There are only 25 users but the job also includes photography...

RocketTech, he'll be able to use the new servers to set up a little lab before we switch from old stuff to new. Experience is also a confidence builder. What you wrote makes so much sense - I don't think it is possible to have too much experience. Dead Parrot, this is brilliant. Digging...

Thanks, XOR != OR. What do you think of the boot camps? Do you have a preferred source for official training?

We're a small company, about 25 users with a Windows network that hums along on 7 year old servers. I'm no guru, but I've learned enough to install the network and keep things going. Two things are about to happen. 1. I'm going to transition out of my job. 2. We'll be installing new...

My mom & dad were asking me about getting this 'service' for my grandparents. I am 36 years old and I am blessed to have all 4 of my grandparents still alive, coherent, and living close to me. I even got to play checkers with my great great grandmother. How cool is that!? I was too young to...

What about simply picking up a couple of these Western Digital My Book Mirror Edition USB external hard drive RAID 1 devices? My only concern is, if a hard drive fails...I have to send in the whole thing for replacement? An external RAID 1 enclosure that is waiting for my own hard drive...

boatasiaus, thanks for pointing that out. Do you know of anyone who uses one of these?

Me: "Hi, IBM. Can you tell me what LTO Gen 3 or 4 drive will work with my server? I don't care if it is SCSI or if I need to get a SATA controller of some kind. I'm just curious about my options." IBM: "No. The best you can get is a Gen 2 LTO drive for nearly a grand." Me...

Our data changes daily. The Ultrum 3 tapes would cover me nicely, I think. This is old tech and still $2000+ from IBM. I'm on the phone now with IBM to make sure the TS2230 SCSI version is compatible with our server. IBM is pretty picky about what is compatible with what but their stuff...

I have a DDS4 tape drive working with the dated version of Symantec Backup Exec 10d. We backup the My Documents folders of office people, the Exchange server, and a couple of SQL databases. I have to swap tapes out about once a day and clean the tape drive about twice a week. We don't have...

Thank you to all who helped me and helped those I get to serve. I built a test system with the list above. I did burn-ins with Prime95, Intel's burn-in utility, and a couple of others. I did memtest and spinrite and everything seems jake. I did, however, forget speakers. I always forget...

Oh, and I've sent my list of components to my CDW-type sales guy who has a bunch of HP sales liaisons from these PC manufacturers who actually take up office in the offices of running around there. I gave him the skinny, preached about my priority, and we'll see what he learns and comes back...

That is good news. I have a few TR3X6G1600C7 7-7-7-20 sticks. It would be outstanding if these could populate this board and work.

I'm seeing a lot of good things about the G.Skill memory, but the only memory that has been tested by Intel for use with this motherboard is Kingston. Newegg's comment section is filled with guys who were using something else and had problems, then changed to Kingston and were good to go...

$99 - Intel BOXDP55WB motherboard $64.99 - XFX HD-465X-ZDF2 Radeon HD 4650 $50 - CORSAIR CMPSU-450VX 450W $199.99 - Intel Core i5-750 $90.49 - Kingston ValueRAM 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 $140 - Western Digital RE3 WD3202ABYS 320GB x 2 for RAID 1 $26 - LITE-ON Black 24X...

Thank you again for all of the input. I went to the source, as it where, and checked out the Executive Series motherboards on Intel's website. The motherboards listed are LGA775 series boards. It seems, if I want to get something that is 'suitable for a business environment' I have to get...

Reliability is the primary goal, but I'm up for grabbing as much gusto as I can, as long as that priority objective of reliability is met. So, going with the Xeon processor is intriguing. I'm still interested in what others consider to be the best mobo to go with something like that...

We already backup to tape and an image is taken of every machine. Please, let me know if the following logic is flawed. Having a workstation available is of huge importance, more important than speed. When I am looking at these workstations, I'm asking myself if there is anything I can do to...

I guess I'm a bit of a Corsair fanboy, but I trust the community here and I'm all for saving a buck or two. I see the Ripjaws are 1333 vs 1600. I'm guessing my users won't see a performance difference between them and choosing the G.Skill over the Corsair is solely a cost saving measure...

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Web browsing, UPS shipment processing, manufacturing database front-end software, office suite stuff - a lot of windows open at once. 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? ~$1200 with shipping and...

Man, let the people say their nice things about this product. If they are spiritually moved by simply gazing upon the crimson crested paperboard magnificence...let them worship.

The brpboxshop lawyers let us know there was a product out there with a logo similar to the one I loved and wanted on this hardware. They did not like the forbidden fruit graphic at all. I've never hard of the company that could have had some problem with it so I was steamed. I had a vision...

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