Recently my desktop has had a few hiccups but being almost 3 years old it has taken a beating. A lot of things I do myself and around the house revolves around the Lian Li machine which was repurposed from a Windows Home Server to a Heavy Weight Single Desktop use. With the launch of the new Intel Haswell Processors and a few interesting pieces of hardware I had laying around I decided to put this new machine together and also add some more gaming capability to it.

Hardware

• Thermaltake Urban S41
• Thermaltake 1500W
• Samsung 840 SSD 500 GB SATAIII
• Intel Core i7-4770
• Gigabyte Z87 LGA 1150 Dual LAN ATX
• Corsair 16 GB DDR3 1600Mhz Vengence
• Gigabyte AMD Radeon HD 7970 OC 3GB GDDR5
• Digistar BlueRay Drive (Slot Loading)
• OCZ 128 GB SSD SataIII
• WD 3TB SataIII

For the software I want to dual boot both Windows 8 & Windows 7, honestly Windows 7 is amazing and does the job and extremely stable. I have one Windows 8 laptop with a touch screen, and for Windows 8 to work smoothly it has to be a Touch Screen integrated into it. So dual boot option looks like its something I’m contemplation at this point, but the first install is going to be Windows 7 at least. Then the Windows 8 install on the other SSD and W8 can handle the dual boot option on start up, but lets see how it develops.