New hardware - what has the best price/efficiency ratio today?

[ior=0]

Good systems Tomek and Dariusz (nice minimal slave under £900).

I was wondering about the size of my SDD (Ooh! Matron.) as I haven't used one as the Primary disk before I was wondering how people use theirs (bring on the innuendos)?

Most of my core work and assets are stored on a server, so the SSD will only have to hold the system, progs and MyDocuments crap. All told, that accounts for approximately 130GB on my current (somewhat bloated) system, I'm guessing I could get away with a 128GB SSD but I'd rather have a bit of room to play with. I will also have a couple of old 500GB HDD mirrored for cache(s)and non primary storage.

I guess my question is, how do people dividing their local storage between a SDD primary and HDD secondary disks? What are the pros and cons you have found?

[Donald2B]

The SSD in both of my machines are 256GB. They only contain OS and Applications. Any video games are installed onto a different HDD specifically for my games.

I then have a RAID 0 w/ 10K rpm HDDs for my pagefile, working files. (Backed up daily to file server)

Lastly, there is a 2TB storage drive for all my junk. Downloads, music, movies, games, photos, personal stuff, etc...

This has been my best setup I have tried to this point. Interested in what others are doing.

[fernanditogarces]

In my humble opinion, best hardware price/ratio, is to get an well ventilated case with a 4770K or 3770K overclocked as much as possible (4.6 ghz super stable on mine), a good 256 gb ssd for the OS and apps and another for assets, a Titan graphics card (if you consider that has 6GB, then its real cheap compared to quadros) but you have a good one already , 32 gb ram. Remember most of the software we use sadly uses only one core when we are working!.
Then all you need is as many slaves as you can for rendering.

[AlexP]

Not sure how price efficient it is, but dual E5-2670 v2 is some serious power.
Def not cheap, but 40 threads in one box