Late 2019 "Proffesional Office" build

[Baterka]

I am trying to build a "professional office" computer for my friend.

 

He told me, that he using his old pc for browsering (firefox, ~20 tabs, some more demand sites), for lightweight Cad/3D modeling without renders, and multithreaded work (word+music+browser+explorer combos on 3 monitors) and its getting choppy and pages are loading very slow.

 

He also told me he will be installing Hackintosh and want same snapy office expirience as Linus showed when reviewing 2018 iMac Pro

 

He using 3 FHD monitors and already have some 650Ti GPU what he want keep (I am not sure if this GPU not already limiting his responsivness with 3/4 4k resolution :))

 

His budget is just for SSD, CPU, MB, PS and RAM and its limited to 950$. I am sure he will get more than he expect for this budget, because he coming from Sandy Bridge i5, slow SSD and 6GB RAM

 

He do not want AMD because of poor hackintosh support, I was told.

 

My selection now is:

i7-9700

B360 board

2 sticks of HyperX Fury 2666 8GB

Seasonic Focus Plus 550W

Gammix S11 512GB NVMe (personal favourite - very close in performance to Samsungs, but cheaper)

 

This is ~850$ so its well under his max budget and I think already overpowered components for his needs.

 

I am still not sure if hackintosh not have overhead what needs to be compensated by better HW. And I also not know if his type of workload will better use more cores or less more powerfull ones. (i5 vs i7)

 

Thanks for some suggestions

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Eigenvektor]

I would say "professional" and "hackintosh" are kind of mutually exclusive. It's a lot of work to get running and keep running when updates come in. On top of that, hackintosh pretty much dictates what hardware you can use, because you're limited to hardware that is supported by macOS.

 

Other than that, I'd say an i7-9700 is overkill for an office computer and you don't really need flashy gaming oriented RAM either. I'd rather invest in a GPU upgrade, you'd have to look which GPUs are supported by the CAD software your friend is using (is that software even available for macOS?)

 

Depending on his workload I'm sure AMD might be a better choice (more cores for less), depends on how adamant he is on using a hackintosh. We'd probably need to know more about the type of work he does (which CAD software, for example)

[gloop]

4 hours ago, Baterka said:

I am trying to build a "professional office" computer for my friend.

 

He told me, that he using his old pc for browsering (firefox, ~20 tabs, some more demand sites), for lightweight Cad/3D modeling without renders, and multithreaded work (word+music+browser+explorer combos on 3 monitors) and its getting choppy and pages are loading very slow.

 

He also told me he will be installing Hackintosh and want same snapy office expirience as Linus showed when reviewing 2018 iMac Pro

 

He using 3 FHD monitors and already have some 650Ti GPU what he want keep (I am not sure if this GPU not already limiting his responsivness with 3/4 4k resolution :))

 

His budget is just for SSD, CPU, MB, PS and RAM and its limited to 950$. I am sure he will get more than he expect for this budget, because he coming from Sandy Bridge i5, slow SSD and 6GB RAM

 

He do not want AMD because of poor hackintosh support, I was told.

 

My selection now is:

i7-9700

B360 board

2 sticks of HyperX Fury 2666 8GB

Seasonic Focus Plus 550W

Gammix S11 512GB NVMe (personal favourite - very close in performance to Samsungs, but cheaper)

 

This is ~850$ so its well under his max budget and I think already overpowered components for his needs.

 

I am still not sure if hackintosh not have overhead what needs to be compensated by better HW. And I also not know if his type of workload will better use more cores or less more powerfull ones. (i5 vs i7)

 

Thanks for some suggestions

 

 

 

 

 

 

If he isn’t that committed to Hackintosh:

 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/CtLfvW

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700 3.2 GHz 8-Core Processor  ($139.99 @ Amazon) 
Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($104.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($109.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: ADATA XPG GAMMIX S11 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($139.99 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Samsung 860 Evo 2 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($229.99 @ Adorama) 
Case: Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case  ($98.98 @ Newegg) 
Power Supply: Corsair RMx (2018) 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  ($79.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $903.92
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You can drop the RAM down to 16GB and drop the 2TB SSD if you would want a better GPU

 

Its really overkill for an office computer TBH