Workstation for College!

[DiabloPCs]

This will be my first build log on here and I am super excited! 

 

As the title suggests I fried my 8350 back in March. Needless to say, I would not recommend pushing 1.47V through a second-hand MSi 970 Krait Edition board to a second-hand processor. I figured out that when you do this chokes tend to ark off of nearby metal heatsinks...yaaa not my finest hour. On the other hand, it was a really clean build before this all happened. I only managed to a take one photo of it before tearing it apart to send parts to MSi.

 

But this is not about the old rig; this about the new one! I am heading off to college in August and can not take the behemoth 750D with me; you might think I'm crazy but it is just a tad too big lol. I am also not going to put any more money into a dead platform (FX series...). So I began looking for a very small case that can still fit an atx motherboard that has good aesthetics and engineering. I arrived at the Caselabs BH7. I ordered it this morning and can't wait for it to come in.

 

But here comes the tricky part... I still need to figure out what cpu/mobo combo to put in. The primary use of this PC will be for CAD and some gaming from time to time.  I was thinking a 7800X but with thread ripper just around the corner, I figured I will wait. I like the numbers on the Ryzen 7 series, but the single core performance really isn't to impressing. Hopefully thread ripper doesn't let me down...

 

I also started on a rough 3D model for what I was thinking of doing with the bullet. The whole in the top is a cut out for the flexbay that caselabs makes for their other cases.

[Jurrunio]

Threadripper won't be better in single core performance. It's just 2 Ryzen chips welded into 1 piece

 

However, X299 is clearly worse. It is just so darn expensive.

[iRileyx]

9 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Threadripper won't be better in single core performance. It's just 2 Ryzen chips welded into 1 piece

 

However, X299 is clearly worse. It is just so darn expensive.

Worse in price/performance yes. Gotta remember though that the highhly priced/high core X299 chips are aimed(mainly) at people who render or video edit, or some other profession where they use their PC to make a living, who are more than willing to pay extra for the best performance they can get if it speeds up workloads.

[DiabloPCs]

19 hours ago, RKRiley said:

Worse in price/performance yes. Gotta remember though that the highhly priced/high core X299 chips are aimed(mainly) at people who render or video edit, or some other profession where they use their PC to make a living, who are more than willing to pay extra for the best performance they can get if it speeds up workloads.

That's a good point. Hopefully the 12 core variant of thread ripper has almost as good single core performance and much higher multicore performance against the 7800X. 

 

For now we will just have to wait until the official numbers come...

[DiabloPCs]

Getting ready to purchase the Flex-Bay 120.2 from case labs but need some information on the product... If anyone would be so kind as to post the exact dimensions of the product in here I would greatly appreciate it!

[DiabloPCs]

NUpdate 7/12/17:

I received news that my Amazon Warehouse Deals had an incorrect inventory number for the Bullet BH7; so the order was canceled and I can not get the discount anymore. So after some thinking, I decided to stick with the 750D and use the extra cash for better components or put it toward a better laptop for school. So I guess I have a very difficult decision to make, desktop or laptop. Here is the run down:  Please please share your opinions/experiences/wisdom!

 

Desktop Parts (still undecided as mentioned in original post) Needs Purchased :

CPU: i7 7800X or 7820X, Ryzen 1800X, or Threadripper something

Mobo: X299 Asus TUF Mark 1, X370 Asus ROG board (still waiting for threadripper stuff)

RAM: 32GB either Dominator Platinum with CableMod black kit or TridentZ

GPU: MSi R9 390 I might pick up a lower scale Quadro or FirePro card

Case: Modified Corsair 750D

PSU: EVGA G1 750W with custom sleeved cables

Storage: 250GB Samsung 850 EVO and 4tb WD Blue SSHD

Bitspower and EK custom loop parts (too lazy to list them lol)

 

Laptop Reqs:

Quad Core processor

At least 16GB of RAM

Needs to run CAD programs such as Solidworks and Catia really well

USB type C

Discrete Graphics

All metal construction

SSD Storage doesn't have to be big, I have 4.25TB worth of hard drives readily available

Not a brick... I have to make it across campus with this thing

 

Laptops I Have Considered:

2017 Razer Blade

2017 Razer Blade Stealth 13.3in variant

ROG Zyphrus

MSi CAD series laptops

 

I have only looked at a few laptops and if you guys know of some other nice ones I would really really appreciate it if you share them please!