Approximate Purchase Date:
ASAP subject to hard decision making and as these are £300 over budget and right before Christmas it may have to wait a bit, was hoping to get this done for Balck Friday /Cyber Monday
Follwing the requested format....
Budget Range:
(In UK so pounds) £2750 - £3000 was the ideal, especailly with Christmas and no cash after next week till 21st dec comming up. But all the advise Im getting is pushing me over to around £3350. If Possible want it back down. but may hvae to go up to this figure.
System Usage from Most to Least Important:
CAD for modelling, 3d Printing and visual, Editing, Rendering, Encoding, 3d Animation, Graphics, Podcasting, whilst watching downloaded tv shows, lots open at once usually 2 screens plus, maybe some games but tend to avoid as then dont get other stuff done.
Software to include:
Rhino with V-ray Rendering and various addon ons,
Solidworks with Key Shot Rendering... Want also to try Maxwell Render
Adobe Premier and After Effects, ideally things like green screen work
Photoshop Illustrator and Indesign.
Podcasting experiments with Adobe Audition
Are you buying a monitor:
Not yet... tryin to keep down budget, can get later will use my ultra hi def 40" Samsung TV for moment till can get a 2nd or 3rd monitor/
Also planning on getting/building a raid 1 mirror pair of Seagate Barracuda Pro 4 tb drives when I get the cash later and online storage backup.
Do you need to buy OS:
Preferred Website(s) for Parts:
At the moment been looking to have a custom build at PC Specialist. Whilst have dealth with replacing hard drives, DVD drives, Graphics Tablets, RAM, software before etc am soewhat nervous about ***ing up the processor, power and motherboard and around £3000 thats some expensive balls ups. But am curious how much I could save and where I could go for parts or suppliers with better deals. Most likely with some supervision help would do OK by wary of risk as no fall back cash.
Also concerned about warrantees given how much computers go wrong.
https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk
(e.g.: newegg.com, ncix.com -- to show us selection & pricing)
Location: City, State/Region, Country -
Parts Preferences: Everyoen has said to go for the quadro 4000 as opposed to 2000 and mostly been pushed away from more powerful Games card to more accurate Quadro cards thouhs is there a difference between Nvida and PNY?
Overclocking:
Maybe Never done it and looking for somethging long lastign and reliable not burn out and replace.
SLI or Crossfire:
Maybe future, Im struggling to get this so onus grpahcis cards are not on cars for a long time but would like the option in the future
Your Monitor Resolution:
Not relevant at present will look into secondary montirs later
Additional Comments:
Quieter PC preferred. Whilst a cool looker is welcomed thats not its primary purpose to show off to mates, plus its in my bedroom, a disco light if left to render at night is not good for sleep.
What is important is expanadability, being able to fit things like water coolers, bluetooth, , easy to maintain, speed reliability, long lasting upgrading later etc.
As said trying to get budget down, ( or AMD Threadripper routes, thying to get the balance. Which of the software is single core above)
And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading:
been held back a year and a half when I took down my portfolio as website host was extrosionist just before by i5 laptop went down perminentaly and it took months to recover much of my wrks, then monots broke then been stuck using a parents I3 laptop... Looking to get at proper grown up workstation that can do things quick and efficient.
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OK all that done here are the two latest builds I have been tryign to configure:
Option 1 AMD Threadripper Processor Build
Case
CORSAIR GRAPHITE SERIES™ 780T FULL TOWER CASE
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 16 Core CPU (3.5GHz - 4.4GHz, 40MB CACHE)
Motherboard
ASUS® ROG ZENITH EXTREME (DDR4, 6Gb/s, CrossFireX/SLI) - RGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)
16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3200MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
PNY QUADRO P4000 - 8GB GDDR5, 1792 CUDA Cores - 4 x DP
1st Storage Drive
NOT REQUIRED
1st M.2 SSD Drive
1TB SAMSUNG 970 EVO M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3400MB/R, 2500MB/W)
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
NOT REQUIRED
Power Supply
CORSAIR 850W RMx SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H100x Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste
COOLER MASTER MASTERGEL MAKER THERMAL COMPOUND
LED Lighting
50cm Red LED Strip
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (Wi-Fi NOT INCLUDED)
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Genuine Windows 10 Professional 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [MUP-00003]
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Windows Recovery Media
Windows 10 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Unlimited Downloads from Online Account
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft® Office® 365 (Operating System Required)
Anti-Virus
BullGuard™ Internet Security - Free 90 Day License inc. Gamer Mode
Browser
Microsoft® Edge (Windows 10 Only)
Keyboard & Mouse
PCS S300 USB MEDIA KEYBOARD
Mouse
PCS S300 USB OPTICAL MOUSE
Warranty
3 Year Platinum Warranty (3 Year Collect & Return, 3 Year Parts, 3 Year labour)
Delivery
TIMED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND - MON-FRI, PRE-NOON
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 6 to 8 working days
QTY
1
£2,789.17
£3,347.00
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OPTION 2 I9-9900x intel route
CORSAIR GRAPHITE SERIES™ 780T FULL TOWER CASE
Intel® Core™ i9 10 Core Processor i9-9900X (3.5GHz) 19.25MB Cache
ASUS® WS X299 SAGE: USB 3.1, SATA 6 GB/s
16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 2666MHz (2 x 8GB)
PNY QUADRO P4000 - 8GB GDDR5, 1792 CUDA Cores - 4 x DP
NOT REQUIRED
1TB SAMSUNG 970 EVO M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3400MB/R, 2500MB/W)
NOT REQUIRED
CORSAIR 550W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Noctua NH-U14S Ultra Quiet Performance CPU Cooler (Problem here with lack of mid board usa PORTS NOT ALLOWING WATER COOLING)
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING (HOW HELPFUL IS THE OTHER MORE ADVANCED PASTE?)
2x 120mm Black Case Fan (configured to extract from rear/roof)
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
WIRELESS 802.11 AC1750 1,300Mbps/5GHz, 450Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD
2 PORT (2 x TYPE A) USB 3.0 PCI-E CARD + STANDARD USB PORTS
Genuine Windows 10 Professional 64 Bit - inc.
Single Licence [MUP-00003] (For some reason my build keeps switching back to home... I keep having to check I have the right one, anyway to fix this and keep it pro?)
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Windows 10 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Unlimited Downloads from Online Account
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft® Office® 365 (Operating System Required)
BullGuard™ Internet Security - 3 User, 1 Year
Microsoft® Edge (Windows 10 Only)
PCS S300 USB MEDIA KEYBOARD
PCS S300 USB OPTICAL MOUSE
3 Year Platinum Warranty (3 Year Collect & Return, 3 Year Parts, 3 Year labour)
TIMED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND - MON-FRI, PRE-NOON
Standard Build - Approximately 6 to 8 working days
£2,785.83 + VAT & Delivery = £3,343.00
anyway to do a poll?
These are from PCSpecialist.co.uk Open to suggestions, anyone got an idea how much would be saved if I built own and how would warrantees work?
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