PC Assembly for 3D Rendering

We assembled a PC today for one of RTCC's employees for 3D rendering purposes.

Here are the part specifications:

One of Intel's latest chips, the i7-930 at 2.86GHz with an 8MB Cache. Try running multiple programs with that CPU. Full specs at Intel Website.

The i7-930 will be housed in one of Gigabyte's premier motherboards, the X58A-UD3R which supports 6-core chips and features SATA 3.0 and USB 3.0, 4 PCI-E slots for future dedicated video card expansions, 6 RAM/memory slots capable of supporting up to 24GB or RAM, 10 SATA slots for multiple Hard or Optical Disk Drives, Firewire, and multiple E-SATA slots, a 1GB NIC, and an onboard 7.1 surround sound card. It comes bundled with the normal SATA cables, an IDE cable (the heck do we need an IDE cable?), and SLI connector and three-way SLI riser connector.

It will utilize the power of nVidia with the Geforce 9800 GT running on 1GB DDR3 VRAM housed on Gigabyte's Silent Cell technology.

Four Kingston (Would Crucial have been better?) 2GB DDR3 modules equaling 8GB to power the PC's memory.

Now we come to the setback and a presumed bottleneck. Two 1TB Western Digital Hard Drives running at just 7200RPM. We should have gone for the 10k-15k RPM HDD's which would have complimented SATA 3.0 quite nicely. This could have helped in speeding up 3D rendering.

All these will reside on Thermaltake's ElementS PC case and will be powered by a Peak 720W power supply by Gigabyte.