It's probably time... suggestions needed

19_blackie_73 · October 4, 2019

Hi all together,

I'm struggling to figure out a few things with my new planned rig. Atm I'm rocking a pc (see sig) with a xeon 1231v3 and a 970. I'm planning to replace it sometime soon, eventually in the next 1 or 2 weeks. I'm more or less cpu power limited (Lightroom and davinci resolve mainly, studio one secondarly on export) and the 970 doesn't do the best job at 1440p gaming. I'm gaming on 1440p and titles such as project cars 2 and assetto corsa, GTA V and a few city building sims like banished and cities:skylines. A bit more fps would be nice, but don't need extremely more horses.

Budget wise I'm looking at around 1100€ absolut maximum (country is Germany), the lower the better but not on the cost of silence because of audio recording fairly nearby and I will carry over some of my hdds and ssds. my wishlist would be:

Ryzen 3600
16GB Ram
1TB SSDs, not qlc and M.2, SATA would be fine, NVMe can be but doesn't have to.
reuse the WD Green 120GB M.2 SSD as a Lightroom scratchdisk for all the previews
a new 2TB drive (HDD)
my eyes lie on the silent base 601, the pure base 500 or 600
probably set on the dark rock 4 slim or non slim
and graphics probably 2060 because blender may use the rt cores in the future

Things I'm struggling with:

Motherboard: I don't find any boards with two m.2 sata ports; only one nvme and one nvme/sata if they have two slots. Problem with that is that non qlc nvme drives are fairly expensive except one or two adata drives. If there's no real solution, I will also use a 2.5inch drive, but I do find it neeter with an m.2
GPU: which one is the most silent? bonus points for running very cool and silent mode when idling.

If anybody can enlighten me for my two main problems, would be a big help

I will probably buy everything from mindfactory.de as they are most times the cheapest and I have good experiences with them.
And I don't care much about looks I might add, so no rgb bling bling nonsense needed.

for reference, the more or less set components come in at around 550€ atm.

https://www.mindfactory.de/shopping_cart.php/basket_action/load_basket_extern/id/53081a22170152ee2772e703b14121bd322d709369eedd9cce9

thanks for your help und input

brob · October 4, 2019

Using M.2 for SATA drives strikes me as wasteful. I believe something like https://www.gigabyte.com/ca/Motherboard/X570-GAMING-X-rev-10/sp#sp has two M.2 that support SATA drives.

Why not consider qlc NVMe drives? Something like the Intel 660p has decent performance and reasonable endurance.

Several gpu review sites offer noise level data.

19_blackie_73 · October 5, 2019

13 hours ago, brob said:

Using M.2 for SATA drives strikes me as wasteful. I believe something like https://www.gigabyte.com/ca/Motherboard/X570-GAMING-X-rev-10/sp#sp has two M.2 that support SATA drives.

Why not consider qlc NVMe drives? Something like the Intel 660p has decent performance and reasonable endurance.

Several gpu review sites offer noise level data.

SATA M.2 is for me more for less cable clutter. The gaming x would sadly ballon my budget beyond what I'm willing to spend.

I'm still a bit doubtful about qlc, the reviews vary quite a bit. and if I drop 100bucks or more on something, I want to be certain. Something like the MX500 1TB M.2 I do know what I get.

and regarding gpus.. yes they do, but I'm yet to find a site that just lists all of them at once to get an overview. As there are so many variants, it gets very tidious so my question was if somebody knows one make and model that is very quiet for a reasonable price.