I'm buying a new rig in about 6 weeks and need some general advice. The machine will be used solely for programming and running some math computations. I'm looking for reliability and performance, so I do not care about overclocking, but I do need a fast CPU/RAM and need to be sure that I can run a simulation on it for a few days without anything blowing up. Current hardware choices are as follows:
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/eof/saved/29Jf
I'm especially interested in comments about the RAM, PSU and mobo, e.g. how reliable is the RAM with standard cooling at its rated speed? All my old motherboards have been from Abit (RIP)/Asus/Gigabyte, so I have no experience with ASRock, but it seems to be getting good ratings at many hardware sites. However, I'm not sure how well a quick test tells you anything about reliability when running it 24/7 for a few months (i.e. do I expect to get a hardware related crash every few weeks or so).
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/eof/saved/29Jf
I'm especially interested in comments about the RAM, PSU and mobo, e.g. how reliable is the RAM with standard cooling at its rated speed? All my old motherboards have been from Abit (RIP)/Asus/Gigabyte, so I have no experience with ASRock, but it seems to be getting good ratings at many hardware sites. However, I'm not sure how well a quick test tells you anything about reliability when running it 24/7 for a few months (i.e. do I expect to get a hardware related crash every few weeks or so).