Super Computer!

I fortunately walked to my mail box they other day to find that I received a check in the mail that I've been patiently waiting for. After giving it about five seconds worth of thought, I found myself thinking of a new computer.  I typically work on a lot of high end software, and I have been finding myself held back by the constraints of my computer (from 2008 lol). Now, I could get a modern day computer, with great video game  and general specs, OR.... I could go back a year or two, and get some powerful parts that are dedicated for a specific purpose (on top of getting the pricey software licenses needed for my fields). Those purposes for me are computer vision programming, machine learning, AI programming, CAD development, hardware/software engineering, game development, audio editing and video editing. So with out further stalling, I present to you the list of power house parts that went into this build. 
The parts and programs list for this workstation is as follows:
Two intel Xeon e5 2660 8 core processors (16 physical cores, 32 virtual cores with HT)
ASRock EP2C602-4L/D16 workstation motherboard
Two AMD firepro 7000 CAD graphics cards each with 4 gigs of ram, set in Crossfire config
AMD r390 fury with 8gbs RAM
128gb Samsung 1600mhz ram 
1 terabyte SSD samsung pro 
4 TB HDD toshiba NAS drive
Phanteks Enthoo Luxe Series PH-ES614L_BK  computer case 
1200w gold rated modular PSU by OCZ 
bluray burner with 128gb burning capacity
low latency bluetooth transmitter
usb 3.0 pcie card and front panel hub
pny 128gb flash drive usb 3.0 400Mbps read speed
thumbprint scanner 
4k monitor (swooped for 200 bucks on black Friday)
windows 8.1 pro full version
ableton live 9 suite (on sale through the bay, still hurts to pay it though)
Pycharm Professional for python programming
FluidMask3 (on sale)

These are the parts that I had saved up for and purchased before hand:
focusrite audio interface 
perception 120 microphone
aka mpk mini (I bought and repaired it for a little under 40 bucks)
bludio victory headphones
utech 12 button gaming mouse (set for CAD development)
Microsoft ergonomic keyboard
Corel Video studio ultimate x10
wondershare filmora (lifetime license)

Super awesome free software I'd like to give credit too:
FreeCAD - MY FAVORITE, used for making models of anything and everything
audacity - kick butt simple audio editor 
blender - awesome game character modeling software
unity - awesome videogame development software. (Free for the most part)
python (2.7 and 3.5) - my main programming language
arduino IDE
The list above accounts for about 90 percent of everything that has gone into this build. After everything was said and done, I had spent more than what I'd like, but recalling that I built my last computer in about '08/'09, and it is still working, I think its fair to say that I'm going to make this one last. This will also significantly speed up my research process. Having a power house that can virtualize multiple machines to compile code, while still allowing me to engineer through CAD, Ableton, VideoStudio, GIMP, Unity, Blender, PyCharm, and Filmora with out sacrificing the processing power I need is CRUCIAL to my line of work. This also gives me a little more motivation to hit the books, with determination. And to answer your question, yes I can (and will occasionally) use this play a video game or two. :p
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David Jackson

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