Building a new PC only for automated tools need advice

definitely you want to get a SSD i'll go for Crucial M4...

Thanks to everyone. Nice to hear fro people who know what they are talking about. Lots of good advice.

Any other comments on AMD over Intel?

Regarding the motherboard. I can understand that running a PC 24/7 is demanding. I could go for an Intel mother board like this one. It is a little more expensive but I will get an onboard Intel network controller, so I guess I can ditch the separate Intel network card. In that case there is really no price difference. Would that be a better option?

ningning said:

I will put it under the stairs, but I still want the noise as low as possible.

Here is my Newegg list:

http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=20924952

Still need to find a PSU.

Please comment.

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unless you have a secondary hard drive, you'll most likely need more than 32GB for the ssd. to get the full benefits, you'll want to have your OS and all other programs installed on it, and only use a hdd for files you don't plan on accessing often. depending on what you're putting on it, 60-120GB would work much better.

it's always going to be a tradeoff between fan noise and cpu temperature. you can install 3rd party programs to control your cpu fan speed, and make it really quiet, but then your cpu runs hotter than it normally would, and running it 24/7 like that shortens its lifespan. OTOH, you can choose to run the fan at 100% all the time, which would be noisy, but the cpu will run cooler and last longer.

the PSU won't require a high wattage rating, since you don't need to power a graphics card. you'll want to get one with a high efficiency rating, since that's going to decide what your electric bill looks like when you're running this thing 24/7. also make sure it gets good reviews for being reliable, because if your PSU fails catastrophically for whatever reason it could fry every other component along with it.

in addition to all that, i'd also recommend getting an uninterruptible power supply if you want the system to be up continuously. otherwise if the power goes out for 2 seconds, your computer will shut off, and you'll have no way to turn it back on remotely.

Skip network card as its inbuilt in the motherboard. also intel i3 will do the job..u dont need i5 ... cpu cooler is also not needed also it adds extra noise.

Go for 64 GB ssd . Win7 will take more space & there will be less apace for programs.

add the below

dvd writer
SMPS

Definitely a good network card. As to CPU and RAM, that depends on what you're going to do with it. If you will run a lot of instances of ScrapeBox and process a lot of data, then you need more powerful CPU and RAM. Average specs are enough to handle 45MBps, so CPU and RAM are no problem to handle bandwidth.

Your list seems great.

I am a little confused about network cards.

What is a good networkcard? What specs to look for except that Intel is recommended.

Is an onboard Intel network controller just as good as a separate card?

Thanks.

Oh, and by the way - a scenario could be to run 5 - 10 instances of GSA SER.

onboard card is more than enough

If your looking for an assembled computer then you should straight away go with Dell XPS 7100 , which got awarded the best computer for the year 2012 which got a score of 10/10:-
http://computers.toptenreviews.com/home/dell/dell-studio-xps-7100-review.html

But since the dell uses an AMD processor i would not highly recommend it as AMD has been struggling with heating issues, though i've heard recently they've done a better work with them ! So if you want to build your own computer with a budget like 500$ here's my recommendation
Proccessor :- INTEL i7 3rd gen(ivy bridge)
CPU Cooler :- Intel Boxed Heat Sink And Fan
Motherboard:- Gigabyte or you can go for INTEL 7sesries motherboards
RAM:- 8Gb DDR3
Graphics card:-GeForce GTX 560
Hard Drive:- Any 1tb hard drive by western digital or seagate,if your looking for speed then go for SSD(SOLID STATE HARD DISKS)
If you have any other problems buying them or finding them , do PM me i'll help you for sure ! Cheers

If you are asking about hardware configuration A corei3 processor, Competable board, Medium clad graphics card, 4Gb ram, 1/2 TB hard disk will be well enough

definitely you want to get a SSD i'll go for Crucial M4

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Well don't . I got one a few months ago, i was impressed by specifications results from SATA II to this was a real advancement. And today, i'm struggling, the PC isn't booting i have to extract the SSD each time, fix te HDD in another windows computer and i have 1 day running until it crashes again.


Go for i7, you won't regret it. The keyword here is hyperthreading. Here i have both , i7 860 (3years old) and i5 2500k (1 years old) and the i7 pleases me more with the hyperthreading technology.

The computer I use for all my SEO Stuff:

Intel i7 (6 cores) 3.2GHz
32GB Vengeance RAM
256 Solid State Drive -- Multiple other hard drives if I need them... Somewhere around 3-5TB I think.

Don't remember what kinda motherboard I bought...

Total cost: >$1,700

... my PC is a MONSTER when it comes to multitasking. I can run like 20+ programs at 5-10% CPU usage or less, lol

I paid a bit more than $1000 for my i7 computer, just got a second HD - if you are going to use it to store lots of data, make sure you have a second HD and run Cobian or whatever you use to back up your files daily; my Seagate HD tanked 10 months after I bought it