My Desktop – September 2014

I’ve decided to do some consolidating of machines. I wanted to combine my main desktop and home server into 1. So i dismantled my server and took my RAID card and hard drives and added onto my desktop. I also got alarger SSD for the OS drive. Here’s what I ended up with.

Here is the list of parts that make up my current desktop.

• Fractal Design Define R4 Black Pearl
• Intel Core i7 3930K
• Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4
• G.Skill Ripjaws Z Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 1866 F3-14900CL10Q-32GBZL
• Corsair Hydro H80i
• Adaptec 6805 RAID card
• Corsair TX750 V2
• Intel Gigabit NIC EXPI9301CTBLK
• Rosewill RC-507 Firewire card
• iStarUSA BPU-124V2-SS drive cage
• LG 12X BD-R optical drive
• Crucial MX100 CT512MX100SSD1 512GM SSD
• Samsung 830 MZ-7PC256B/WW 256GB SSD
• Seagate Barracuda Green ST2000DL003 2TB 5900 RPM (8x)

Adding 8 hard drives was a bit of a challenge in terms of cable management, but I was able to pull it off. What do you think? You can also check out my video.