Deep Learning + Light Gaming Build for 2000€

[daanav]

Hello Community,

I have been doing my deep learning projects on my laptop + cloud. Also I do some light gaming. 
As my projects are growing, I want to build a PC for my Projects and also for gaming. My budget is 2000€. I already own peripherals (mouse, keyboard, monitor, desk, etc) so this budget is only for the PC. 

Now I need help from the community to select parts for this PC. Please help me with your suggestions. 

Thanks

[igormp]

13 minutes ago, daanav said:

Hello Community,

I have been doing my deep learning projects on my laptop + cloud. Also I do some light gaming. 
As my projects are growing, I want to build a PC for my Projects and also for gaming. My budget is 2000€. I already own peripherals (mouse, keyboard, monitor, desk, etc) so this budget is only for the PC. 

Now I need help from the community to select parts for this PC. Please help me with your suggestions. 

Thanks

How big are your models? Can they run fine with 8gb or 11gb of VRAM? Can they be easily split into 2 cards? Picking a GPU would be easier knowing the answer for those things. Also what country are you from?

[daanav]

3 minutes ago, igormp said:

How big are your models? Can they run fine with 8gb or 11gb of VRAM? Can they be easily split into 2 cards? Picking a GPU would be easier knowing the answer for those things. Also what country are you from?

The models can run for now with 8Gb VRAM. And I do not think I would need more than that in the next year or so. I am from Germany. 

[igormp]

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor  (€429.00 @ Mindfactory) 
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14 64.95 CFM CPU Cooler  (€69.90 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 AORUS ELITE ATX AM4 Motherboard  (€209.00 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  (€172.90 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Storage: Samsung 970 Evo 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (€106.89 @ Alternate) 
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8 GB WINDFORCE OC Video Card  (€784.45 @ Mindfactory) 
Case: Fractal Design Define R5 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  (€104.90 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Power Supply: Corsair RM (2019) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (€121.89 @ Alternate) 
Total: €1998.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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Since you won't need more than 8gb of vram, this should do, otherwise you'd need to think into a 2080Ti, multiple GPUs or even a quadro.

I'm not sure if you would need more CPU power rather than GPU. If so, you could downgrade the GPU to a 2070S and try to grab a Ryzen 3950x. Also not sure if you need more than 32gb, but that should be an easy upgrade anyway.

[daanav]

15 hours ago, igormp said:

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor  (€429.00 @ Mindfactory) 
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D14 64.95 CFM CPU Cooler  (€69.90 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 AORUS ELITE ATX AM4 Motherboard  (€209.00 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  (€172.90 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Storage: Samsung 970 Evo 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (€106.89 @ Alternate) 
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8 GB WINDFORCE OC Video Card  (€784.45 @ Mindfactory) 
Case: Fractal Design Define R5 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  (€104.90 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Power Supply: Corsair RM (2019) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (€121.89 @ Alternate) 
Total: €1998.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-04-22 00:34 CEST+0200

 

Since you won't need more than 8gb of vram, this should do, otherwise you'd need to think into a 2080Ti, multiple GPUs or even a quadro.

I'm not sure if you would need more CPU power rather than GPU. If so, you could downgrade the GPU to a 2070S and try to grab a Ryzen 3950x. Also not sure if you need more than 32gb, but that should be an easy upgrade anyway.

Thank you for your detailed and quick answer. Do you have experience in ML or DL? Don't you think 12 Cores is an overkill as mostly python is used and it is a single threaded. Most of the calculations are done on the GPU and CPU is only used for pre-processing. So I might go for the 2080ti. Also how is the status of Ubuntu on Ryzen? I read it is good and people are not having problems but if you also do ML/DL then I would appreciate your experience.

[igormp]

1 hour ago, daanav said:

Thank you for your detailed and quick answer. Do you have experience in ML or DL? Don't you think 12 Cores is an overkill as mostly python is used and it is a single threaded. Most of the calculations are done on the GPU and CPU is only used for pre-processing. So I might go for the 2080ti. Also how is the status of Ubuntu on Ryzen? I read it is good and people are not having problems but if you also do ML/DL then I would appreciate your experience.

Yeah, I do work with ML. More often than not I spend more time pre-processing stuff than actually training, that's why I left a 12-core in there. If you believe GPU power is more important, then surely go for the 2080Ti, that extra vram is always welcome.

 

I'm not an Ubuntu user myself, but the latest Ubuntu (20.04) should work flawlessly. You can check out some posts on phoronix for more info, like this one.

[daanav]

19 minutes ago, igormp said:

Yeah, I do work with ML. More often than not I spend more time pre-processing stuff than actually training, that's why I left a 12-core in there. If you believe GPU power is more important, then surely go for the 2080Ti, that extra vram is always welcome.

 

I'm not an Ubuntu user myself, but the latest Ubuntu (20.04) should work flawlessly. You can check out some posts on phoronix for more info, like this one.

Thanks for the information. You saved a lot of research time for me. 

[Guest]

Bigger SSD. The Leadex III is also a quieter psu. 

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor  (€437.99 @ Mindfactory) 
CPU Cooler: ARCTIC Freezer 34 eSports DUO CPU Cooler  (€39.56 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte X570 AORUS ELITE ATX AM4 Motherboard  (€216.89 @ Mindfactory) 
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  (€149.89 @ Alternate) 
Storage: ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  (€162.80 @ Alza) 
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER 8 GB WINDFORCE OC Video Card  (€768.73 @ Mindfactory) 
Case: Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case  (€90.53 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Power Supply: Super Flower Leadex III Gold 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (€104.78 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Total: €1971.17
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
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