Engineering Analysis PC UK

[Judahlion]

I know a little bit about PC building, I have a friend who is needing to build a pc for engineering Analysis, and I said I would help if needed, but this is kind of over my head a little. What would you recommend? I have some ideas, but interested to hear other thoughts.

 

List of reqs below.

 

At the moment budget is not an issue...

 

- very high clock speed, no boost, but if poss over lockable to a fixed speed & 16 Cores.

 

- very fast storage & high capacity (2tb available after OS)

The plan at the moment is to try get like a 512gb SSD for os install and then 2x2tb m.2 nvme drives in a raid 0 config (on board).

 

- high speed Ram at least 128gb

- good graphics processing. Something cad-sympathetic would be beneficial. Not yet sure if SLI would be supported for one of the packages (it's quite legacy so probably not) my old machine has an older single Nvidia quadro and performs "adequately".

 

- Mobo/Chipset that is friendly with WIN 7 due to some software issues encountered in WIN 10, but can be WIN 10 if easier.

(Something from Supermicro?)

 

- high speed ethernet 10gb

 

- additional traditional storage options (also still require dvd/CD-R drive...)

 

- Sufficient power supply,

 

- adequate cooling (air not water).

 

- Case, whatever

 

- don't want anything "off the shelf", want it all  self specced so easily upgradable etc

 

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Here is what i am thinking, let me know if it would work together and do what is being asked of it on the post above.

 

Case: Fractal Design Define Xl R2 Computer Case - £118

 

Motherboard: Supermicro X11SCA-W - £240

 

CPU: Intel core i9 9960X - £850

 

Ram: Corsair Vengance LPX 128gb kit - £590

 

Disk: 4tb M.2 (2X2tb) WD Black - £880

Bootdrive: Samsun 86 evo 500gb - £75

 

Power Supply: EVGA 750w G3 80+ Modular Gold - £115

 

Network Card: NBASE-T Intel X550 Ethernet NIC Card - £235

 

Graphics processing: PNY GeForce RTX 2080 Ti - £1000

 

Cooling CPU: Noctua NH-U12S Slim U-Series Single Tower CPU Cooler - £60

 

Case Fans: 3X14omm fans - £45

 

CD drive: External - £25

 

Total: £4233

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[agent2]

Hi there, 

 

this setup should fit your friend's needs, the motherboard has on-board Thunderbolt and 10G ethernet. The Radeon VII with the 16GB of HBM2 should do the job just fine and i threw in a UHD Blu-Ray writer. 

 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/tNQm27

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 3.5 GHz 16-Core Processor  (£680.00 @ Amazon UK) 
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 CHROMAX.BLACK 82.52 CFM CPU Cooler  (£89.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: ASRock X570 CREATOR ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£508.57 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Memory: Crucial Ballistix RGB 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory  (£356.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Crucial Ballistix RGB 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory  (£356.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Samsung 860 Evo 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£71.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Gigabyte AORUS NVMe Gen4 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£473.18 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Gigabyte AORUS NVMe Gen4 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£473.18 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: Asus Radeon VII 16 GB Video Card  (£789.00 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: be quiet! Dark Base Pro 900 Rev. 2 ATX Full Tower Case  (£209.69 @ CCL Computers) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic PRIME Ultra Titanium 750 W 80+ Titanium Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (£209.99 @ CCL Computers) 
Optical Drive: Pioneer BDR-211EBK Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer  (£119.99 @ CCL Computers) 
Case Fan: be quiet! SilentWings 3 PWM High-Speed 77.57 CFM 140 mm Fan  (£19.68 @ Amazon UK) 
Case Fan: be quiet! SilentWings 3 PWM High-Speed 77.57 CFM 140 mm Fan  (£19.68 @ Amazon UK) 
Case Fan: be quiet! SilentWings 3 PWM High-Speed 77.57 CFM 140 mm Fan  (£19.68 @ Amazon UK) 
Case Fan: be quiet! SilentWings 3 PWM High-Speed 77.57 CFM 140 mm Fan  (£19.68 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £4418.27
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-03-07 12:34 GMT+0000

[Judahlion]

2 hours ago, agent2 said:

Hi there, 

 

this setup should fit your friend's needs, the motherboard has on-board Thunderbolt and 10G ethernet. The Radeon VII with the 16GB of HBM2 should do the job just fine and i threw in a UHD Blu-Ray writer. 

 

PCPartPicker Part List: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/tNQm27

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 3.5 GHz 16-Core Processor  (£680.00 @ Amazon UK) 
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 CHROMAX.BLACK 82.52 CFM CPU Cooler  (£89.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Motherboard: ASRock X570 CREATOR ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£508.57 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Memory: Crucial Ballistix RGB 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory  (£356.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Crucial Ballistix RGB 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory  (£356.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Samsung 860 Evo 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£71.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Gigabyte AORUS NVMe Gen4 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£473.18 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Gigabyte AORUS NVMe Gen4 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (£473.18 @ Amazon UK) 
Video Card: Asus Radeon VII 16 GB Video Card  (£789.00 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: be quiet! Dark Base Pro 900 Rev. 2 ATX Full Tower Case  (£209.69 @ CCL Computers) 
Power Supply: SeaSonic PRIME Ultra Titanium 750 W 80+ Titanium Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (£209.99 @ CCL Computers) 
Optical Drive: Pioneer BDR-211EBK Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer  (£119.99 @ CCL Computers) 
Case Fan: be quiet! SilentWings 3 PWM High-Speed 77.57 CFM 140 mm Fan  (£19.68 @ Amazon UK) 
Case Fan: be quiet! SilentWings 3 PWM High-Speed 77.57 CFM 140 mm Fan  (£19.68 @ Amazon UK) 
Case Fan: be quiet! SilentWings 3 PWM High-Speed 77.57 CFM 140 mm Fan  (£19.68 @ Amazon UK) 
Case Fan: be quiet! SilentWings 3 PWM High-Speed 77.57 CFM 140 mm Fan  (£19.68 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £4418.27
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-03-07 12:34 GMT+0000

That is brilliant.

Thank you!

 

Can i ask a learning question?

 

Why does this fit his needs better than what i cobbled together?

 

Thanks

[agent2]

2 hours ago, Judahlion said:

That is brilliant.

Thank you!

 

Can i ask a learning question?

 

Why does this fit his needs better than what i cobbled together?

 

Thanks

As long as you don't take it personally,  Intel's HEDT platform is way behind of anything of what AMD have to offer and the 3950X is something that has Threadripper-like performance and wipes the floor with nearly the whole stack of i9s. Not to mention the security problems Intel has to endure on a monthly basis and nVIDIA cheating professionals by supplying the 2080Ti with 11GB of VRAM even though they know that many professional applications require 12GB of it. 

Cheers!