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CossieRob
By CossieRob
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Budget (including currency): £

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming, Media Server, Browsing, CAD.

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Hello everyone. I am about to dip my toe into the PC building world after only previously using laptops and PlayStation. My budget has varied but started at £1500 but has ended up higher. Isn't that always the case?

Anyway, the PC will primarily be used for gaming, sim racing more often than not. At times I'll also be using it for AutoCAD/FreeCAD and browsing as well as a media server for the house. I've ended up just over £1700 on this

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor £279.95 @ AWD-IT
Motherboard MSI MAG X570 TOMAHAWK WIFI ATX AM4 Motherboard £219.99 @ Amazon UK
Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory £135.99 @ Amazon UK
Storage Samsung 970 Evo Plus 250 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive £65.64 @ Amazon UK
Storage Samsung 970 Evo Plus 250 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive £65.64 @ Amazon UK
Storage Western Digital Blue 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive £93.99 @ Amazon UK
Storage Western Digital Blue 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive £93.99 @ Amazon UK
Storage Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive £53.88 @ Amazon UK
Storage Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive £53.88 @ Amazon UK
Video Card Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB WINDFORCE OC 3X Video Card £479.98 @ AWD-IT
Case NZXT H510i ATX Mid Tower Case £99.98 @ Amazon UK
Power Supply Corsair RM (2019) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply £119.99 @ CCL Computers
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total £1762.90
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-07-19 01:57 BST+0100  

Now, being the novice I am, I was thinking about setting up the NVME drives up in RAID 0(performance?) for my OS and one or two heavily used games along with some software then using the two SSD's in RAID 1(redundancy?) for things like photos, videos, CAD files etc. The two HDD's would be for the media server so just video files. As I say, total newby so hope that makes sense and appreciate any comments. Thanks.

 

EDIT: Just to add, I'm in no rush so am prepared to wait and see what the new gen CPU's and GPU's have to offer.

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13 minutes ago, CossieRob said:

NVME drives up in RAID 0(performance?) for my OS and one or two heavily used games along with some software

I dont find my PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD perform any better than my SATA SSD as a boot drive holding games, so RAID 0 wont help you on these at all. in CAD it may help if you have huge professional projects, but my simple ones (just learning it) don't care either.

 

what will hit though is value side of things. Larger capacity ones tends to be cheaper per GB (like 1TB and 2TB), so you're inflating your own cost per capacity for no good.

 

17 minutes ago, CossieRob said:

using the two SSD's in RAID 1(redundancy?) for things like photos, videos, CAD files etc.

Only use RAID 1 on servers that run all day. The most effective way is to keep separate backups because RAID runs both drives and running a drive itself wears it out.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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Agreed that nvme raid 0 for os drive is total waste, use the second slot for a larger nvme drive for your cad stuff/games

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Thanks for the input. I've only just started looking at storage options after a failed drive on my laptop. Sounds like RAID probably isn't for me. Maybe have the OS on a 250GB NVME, Games/CAD on a 500GB NVME and back them both up, along with pictures/videos to a 1TB SSD.

 

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor £252.51 @ Amazon UK
Motherboard MSI MAG X570 TOMAHAWK WIFI ATX AM4 Motherboard £219.99 @ Amazon UK
Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory £134.99 @ Amazon UK
Storage Samsung 970 Evo Plus 250 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive £66.52 @ Amazon UK
Storage Samsung 970 Evo 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive £100.38 @ Box Limited
Storage Western Digital Blue 1 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive £94.11 @ Amazon UK
Storage Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive £53.90 @ Amazon UK
Storage Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive £53.90 @ Amazon UK
Video Card Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB WINDFORCE OC 3X Video Card £479.98 @ AWD-IT
Case NZXT H510i ATX Mid Tower Case £99.98 @ Amazon UK
Power Supply Corsair RM (2019) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply £119.99 @ CCL Computers
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total £1676.25
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-07-19 02:53 BST+0100  

 

 

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