Computer Build - Phase IV (Now with pictures)

[Alexander Morou]

Well as far as SSD Reliability:
My personal and professional projects are both stored through some form of SVN (subversion).

I will have a total of four drives:
1. 500GB EVO 850 SSD from Samsung
2. 1TB EVO 850 SSD from Samsung
3-4. X25-M 160GB SSD from Intel (older, but still solid, no pun intended.)

The current drives (including those from 2010, can't speak for sooner, 'cause I don't know) come with extra space used for wear leveling. So the 'you can only rewrite it so many times' issue is usually only an issue on smaller drives (X25-M notably, their total space possible has decreased!) where the overwrites hit the same areas more frequently by virtue of there being less wear-friendly data available.

 

[Alexander Morou]

Wow, like night and day.

 

[Spoo]

So at this point do you think it would be wiser to spend the extra money to SLI two 980tis as opposed to two regular 980s? I don't necessarily see 4k gaming in the near future for me as I don't own a compatible display, but my new rig could easily support it should I buy one.

I feel like futureproofing is the smarter option but at the same time I'm not all that invested in 4k or VR... Yet.

 

[Alexander Morou]

Depends on the use case.

I do heavily multi-threaded workloads and run lots of server-level daemons to develop multi-tier applications. I've installed Hyper-V for emulating different environments and plan on distributing the compute power across these environments.

The Motherboard I chose doesn't support SLI, if I recall correctly.

If I wanted to focus on gaming heavy activities I would've went with a high-end desktop that focuses on fewer higher clocked cores, versus many lower speed cores.

 

[Xilef]

So at this point do you think it would be wiser to spend the extra money to SLI two 980tis as opposed to two regular 980s? I don't necessarily see 4k gaming in the near future for me as I don't own a compatible display, but my new rig could easily support it should I buy one.

I feel like futureproofing is the smarter option but at the same time I'm not all that invested in 4k or VR... Yet.

There is zero reason to get a 980 when the 980ti and 970 exist. The 970 is more budget aware, the 980ti is more performance aware. The 980 is awkwardly in the middle.

I say this as someone with two GTX 980s; if this PC was not required for work (if I was paying for it) I would have waited for the 980ti to be released before building it.

 

[Spoo]

Well, the first 980ti is supposed to arrive back home today. My wallet hurts, but I feel good about the purchase. I'll likely get the second one during Cyber Monday this year, assuming the price is good. CPU cooler as well.