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///WRK_Station Hi everyone, this is my first build in 16 years and first time posting in this community (and it’s thanks to this community I’ve really managed to tune up this build and resolve a few teething issues). I’ve been working from home a lot over the past couple of years and my laptop isn’t cutting it anymore, plus I’ve been doing more photography as a hobby so decided to embark on a new quiet workstation build. Specifications: - AMD Ryzen 5950x CPU - Noctua NH-D15 Chromax Black Heatsink - ASUS Pro WS X570-ACE Motherboard - 2x 32GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance LPX RAM @ 3600Mhz - 8GB nVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 GPU - 1TB Samsung 980 Pro M.2 NVMe SSD - 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 NVMe SSD - 1 TB Samsung 850 EVO SATA SSD - ASUS PCE-AX58BT Wireless PCIe Adapter - Seasonic SSR-850FX Focus Plus 850W 80Plus Gold PSU - Silverstone Seta Q1 Quiet ATX Case - 5x Noctua NF-A14 Chromax.black 140mm Fans I decided on the Silverstone Seta Q1 as a new case with a focus on sound and it’s also not huge as well as offering good support for fans and water cooling in the future. It’s also not RGB or windowed which was perfect for the subtle black, industrial aesthetic I was after. I intentionally went with fast and workstation focused components including a Leadtek RTX 4000 that I nabbed as a bargain brand-new from a local retailer. I also decided on air cooling as I have little water cooling experience and wanted something 24/7 reliable. Initial assembly went well (considering my last build was an Opteron workstation in 2005) with the case and PSU making it easy for good neat cable routing easy (I later decided to put in braided cables to improve aesthetics). LPX RAM fitted neatly under the NH-D15 cooler. Noctua NH-D15 cooler is a real beast so I initially tried it with just one of the included fans where it was quite performant and quiet but the second fan cleared the RAM and knocked 2-5 degrees off with barely anymore noise. The included Silverstone case fans were nice and quiet but they were DC not PWM reducing the flexibility of the fan curve I could set so I decided to go all-out Noctua A14 Chromax Black Swaps in their place. I also bought a 2TB Samsung 970 EVO NVMe SSD at the same time for data which shares the PCIe lanes of the PCIe Gen 4 1x slot on the Asus Pro WS X570-ACE that the wifi card was sitting in. No issues for the wifi card but the SSD was running at 1/4 of it’s maximum speed so I repositioned to the second PCIe 16x slot. After some benchmarking, thermal torture, gaming and light workload stuff I decided to swap to the provided air filter for the top of the case which replaces a slide-in heavy duty sound insulation layer to improve exhaust. I fitted another A14 Chromax to the top of the case to help exhaust hot air and a 3rd front lower fan to increase the positive pressure cold air. I reset the fan curves to lower RPMs and tested/tweaked over a few weeks until neutral pressure and good temps were had at low noise levels. Last change was moving the wifi card to the bottom PCIe slot to give the GPU maximum bandwidth on the CPU PCIe bus (worth probably 3fps in Halo :D). This final configuration and some tuning gave me fully memtest stable DDR4 3600 (18-22-22-42-64) at 1.35V with PBO and Curve Optimizer set to Motherboard limits providing 5.05Ghz @ 1.41V single/dual cores and 4.5Ghz all-core 1.1V. This can pull 280W according to HWMonitor resulting in ~30K Cinebench R23 at 80C maximum at 1000 rpm fan speeds. This can be lower at higher RPMs but it’s very audible then. I’ve tuned the power limits down a bit (due to the inconvenient case location with bad ventilation) and it still hits 5.05Ghz single core at 1.4V and 4.2Ghz all-core at 1.1V resulting in ~28K with much more constrained limits pulling only 180W and 75C max temps. With the system at stock everything (RAM DOCP but PBO off) gives me 5.0Ghz single core @ 1.45V / 3.8 Ghz all core @ 0.981V hitting 71C in single core cinebench and 65C on all core (R23 shows a ~25K all core score and 1618 single core). I usually toggle on “Eco” mode for office work which drops the temps to 50C .

Hi friends, I am new here. I am in a situation to buy a new computer without graphics card or buy a good graphics card but, use it in a old computer with Intel i7 2600 Processor. I will never be using this for any high end gaming (Till i buy a Ryzen 7 3rd gen system in future). It is purely for Krita, Gimp, Godot, Blender and Graphics works. My questions are as follows... Which Graphics card to buy, "Quadro RTX 4000" or "RTX 2080 Super" ? Does "any of these above graphics cards" Work on a PCIe 2.0 Motherboard with i7 2600 Processor? (Intel DH67CL Mother board) Thanks in advance friends UPDATE: Please advice on this update too. As money is my limiting factor... I have done some research and came to a conclusion that, spending little less, i would get a "RTX 2070 super" with little less performance than a "RTX 2080". What do you think about this friends? This is my future upgrade: CPU: Ryzen 7 3700x, RAM: Dual channel 32GB , MB: ASUS Tuf Gaming X570-Plus without wifi, SMPS: 750W 80 plus (Thermaltake or Cooler master) (700w or 750w is for Future proofing, for upgrades) Adding a Graphics card to this upgrade will double the price GPU: RTX 2070 Super As AMD GPUs are consuming more power, producing more heat and slower render times than 2070 (as per the Benchmarking data available online) i avoided buying them. AMD GPU is temptingly low cost. At the same time power hungry and Hot too. In my place it hits more than 50℃ in summer and i dont have any sort of cooling at home. I am unable to choose any Hardware which i too hot and power consuming.

Sup Techies, So, I’m starting my first PC build, and I need some advice before going forward. For context reasons, my pc will be heavily used for 3D modeling, rendering, sculpting, as well as animations. I’m talking blender, 3dsmax, zbrush, unity, photoshop, etc. No email checking, or streaming, or 4K editing or anything of the sort. The only gaming I’ll be doing is testing my own, so I guess FPS is important in that respect. Anyway, I’m trying to match the best (and most cost-friendly) CPU with my chosen GPU, a Quadro RTX 4000. I was told by a professional that the i9-9900k was one of the best and latest to do what I need it to, but of course he’d suggest something so high in price. Ive done a little more research, though, and in addition to being very pricey, I hear it’s really not worth it. I’m not as advanced in the tech field as some of you guys, so I’m not sure if that’s true for what I need it for. I checked the i9 CPU against my chosen RTX 4000 GPU and I’m actually getting results that the combination would result in bottlenecking. I know bottleneck calculators are a bit arbitrary to some, but I don’t have much to go on. The benchmarks seem fine to my noob eyes. I was also considering the Core i7-8700K. Running that through a bottleneck calculator yields much better results, and is a little easier on the wallet, but again, I’m not sure. To be honest, I’m not even sure that the GPU I’ve picked is a good choice for what I need it for, nor that my two top CPU options are relevant to my work. A threadripper could be my best option for all I know. I am working my way through this build research by research and every response or piece of information helps. Thanks guys for all your help and advice in advance, Autumn Here is my complete pc part list for ref and specs: PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU Intel Core i9-9900K 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor $489.99 @ Best Buy CPU Cooler Thermaltake Riing Silent 12 Blue 53 CFM CPU Cooler $39.99 @ Amazon Motherboard Asus ROG STRIX Z390-E GAMING ATX LGA1151 Motherboard $226.99 @ Amazon Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4-2400 Memory $154.99 @ Corsair Storage Western Digital Blue 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive $63.99 @ Dell Storage Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $49.99 @ Walmart Video Card PNY Quadro RTX 4000 8 GB Video Card $889.99 @ Amazon Case NZXT H500 ATX Mid Tower Case $89.98 @ NZXT Power Supply EVGA 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply $76.98 @ Newegg Monitor LG 34UM88-P 34.0" 3440x1440 60 Hz Monitor $497.00 @ Amazon Keyboard Corsair K55 RGB Wired Gaming Keyboard $39.99 @ Amazon Mouse Redragon M602 Wired Optical Mouse $16.98 @ Amazon Custom LED Lights $13.99 Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total (before mail-in rebates) $2670.85 Mail-in rebates -$20.00 Total $2650.85 Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-12-11 23:28 EST-0500