I would like to express my idea of ??a powerful workstation for private use here. Focus I put it on stability, performance, and only in third place on the costs. The prices are from German and Austrian retailers and do not include shipping charges.

Who does not want to read all the posts, for which there is a brief compilation.

Case: Fractal Design Define R5 Black, silenced
Power Supply: be quiet! Dark Power Pro 10 550W ATX 2.31
Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme6
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3, 6x 3.50GHz, Socket 2011-3
CPU Coolers: EKL Alpenföhn Himalaya 2
RAM: Crucial DIMM kit 32GB DDR4-2133, CL15, reg ECC (CT4K8G4RFS4213)
Video Card: Asus R9 280 Strix
SSD: 512GB Samsung SSD XP941, M.2 16Gb / s (MZHPU512HCGL)
HD: Western Digital AV-GP 3TB, 64MB cache, SATA 6Gb / s

The price for this basic configuration starts at ? 2219.-

Depending on your needs can be one of the following components of benefit.

Transcend Multi-Card Reader F8 black, USB 3.0 (TS-RDF8K) from 10.99
Creative Sound Blaster Z, PCIe from 73.89
Hauppauge WinTV HVR-5500 from 109.-
ASUS ThunderboltEX II / DUAL, 2x Thunderbolt 20Gb / s PCIe 2.0 x4 / Thunderbolt AIC from 64,90
ASUS BW-16D1HT (M-Disc) from 78.76

Price as of 25/03/2015, shipping costs not included