I was recently given a GTX 1080 Ti by a very generous friend, and I want to build a system that can take advantage of it. My budget is around US$1000 for the rest of the PC.
I'm a computer scientist and a major multitasker, so I almost always have over 100 tabs open in Chrome along with a lot of programs (I definitely need more than 16 GB of RAM). I'll be starting my graduate research in a couple months, and I'll be doing some heavy image/video processing and graphics work. I also do photography, so I will be spending a lot of time in Lightroom and Photoshop. I have an old 1080p monitor that suits my general needs fine, but I would gladly take recommendations for a more color-accurate display for <$300. Having a high refresh rate or Gsync isn't important to me.
I'm a casual gamer, at best, so I don't anticipate using my PC to play games very often. Even then, I won't be playing any intensive AAA titles. Additionally, I don't care about the looks of the system at all--so no RGB or see-through case side panel. I would like a micro-ATX board/case if possible, since I don't think I'll ever fill it up with more than one hard drive and one PCIe card. Fan noise also isn't a big deal to me, so I'd like a CPU cooler that can allow some minor overclocking without being over-the-top. I'd like an NVMe SSD too, at least 512 GB.
I think a Ryzen 7 2700x might be a good choice for the processor, but should I wait and get the 3700x? Or just go with the 2700x after the 3700x comes out and there's a price drop?
I was recently given a GTX 1080 Ti by a very generous friend, and I want to build a system that can take advantage of it. My budget is around US$1000 for the rest of the PC. I'm a computer scientist and a major multitasker, so I almost always have over 100 tabs open in Chrome along with a lot of programs (I definitely need more than 16 GB of RAM). I'll be starting my graduate research in a couple months, and I'll be doing some heavy image/video processing and graphics work. I also do photography, so I will be spending a lot of time in Lightroom and Photoshop. I have an old 1080p monitor that suits my general needs fine, but I would gladly take recommendations for a more color-accurate display for <$300. Having a high refresh rate or Gsync isn't important to me. I'm a casual gamer, at best, so I don't anticipate using my PC to play games very often. Even then, I won't be playing any intensive AAA titles. Additionally, I don't care about the looks of the system at all--so no RGB or see-through case side panel. I would like a micro-ATX board/case if possible, since I don't think I'll ever fill it up with more than one hard drive and one PCIe card. Fan noise also isn't a big deal to me, so I'd like a CPU cooler that can allow some minor overclocking without being over-the-top. I'd like an NVMe SSD too, at least 512 GB. I think a Ryzen 7 2700x might be a good choice for the processor, but should I wait and get the 3700x? Or just go with the 2700x after the 3700x comes out and there's a price drop?