Building a rendering workstation 1200USD

[Kasparasgre]

Budget (including currency): ~1200USD (1000 Euro)

Country: Lithuania, Europe

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: 3DS max with Vray

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

Only the tower itself is needed, monitors and peripherals are staying from last system.

Upgrading from:
CPU: Intel I7-6700

GPU: Radeon RX480 8GB

RAM: 16GB 2133MHz

MB: MSI Bazooka B150M

SSD: Kingston A400 240GB 

 

PC is mostly used for rendering with 3ds max, vray, so performance i this specific field is most important.

 

Having in mind the budget (1200-ish USD) what should I build and will this budget give me a significant performance boost?

 

Plan would be to buy ASAP, maybe for christmas, unless there is some hardware upcoming that is worth the wait.

 

 

[boggy77]

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor	€293.89 @ Amazon Deutschland
CPU Cooler	Gelid Solutions Phantom CPU Cooler	€34.99 @ Amazon Deutschland
Motherboard	MSI MPG B550 GAMING PLUS ATX AM4 Motherboard	€140.94 @ Mindfactory
Memory	Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory	€127.90 @ Amazon Deutschland
Storage	Kingston A2000 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	€104.90 @ Amazon Deutschland
Video Card	Zotac GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB GAMING Twin Fan Video Card	€243.69 @ Amazon Deutschland
Case	Fractal Design Focus G ATX Mid Tower Case	€44.73 @ Amazon Deutschland
Power Supply	BitFenix Formula Gold 650 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply	€79.90 @ Amazon Deutschland
Case Fan	ARCTIC F12 CO 74 CFM 120 mm Fan	€6.99 @ Amazon Deutschland
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	€1077.93
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-12-03 14:13 CET+0100

 

[Kasparasgre]

5 minutes ago, boggy77 said:

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor	€293.89 @ Amazon Deutschland
CPU Cooler	Gelid Solutions Phantom CPU Cooler	€34.99 @ Amazon Deutschland
Motherboard	MSI MPG B550 GAMING PLUS ATX AM4 Motherboard	€140.94 @ Mindfactory
Memory	Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory	€127.90 @ Amazon Deutschland
Storage	Kingston A2000 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	€104.90 @ Amazon Deutschland
Video Card	Zotac GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB GAMING Twin Fan Video Card	€243.69 @ Amazon Deutschland
Case	Fractal Design Focus G ATX Mid Tower Case	€44.73 @ Amazon Deutschland
Power Supply	BitFenix Formula Gold 650 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply	€79.90 @ Amazon Deutschland
Case Fan	ARCTIC F12 CO 74 CFM 120 mm Fan	€6.99 @ Amazon Deutschland
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	€1077.93
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-12-03 14:13 CET+0100

 

Thanks for a fast reply.
In case of budget increase or decrease +-150eur (it is not strictly set), what components could be upgraded or downgraded? Also, which part of the system is essential for my previously mentioned tasks?

[Downkey]

5 minutes ago, Kasparasgre said:

Thanks for a fast reply.
In case of budget increase or decrease +-150eur (it is not strictly set), what components could be upgraded or downgraded? Also, which part of the system is essential for my previously mentioned tasks?

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 3.8 GHz 8-Core Processor	€450.00
CPU Cooler	Gelid Solutions Phantom CPU Cooler	€34.99 @ Amazon Deutschland
Motherboard	MSI MPG B550 GAMING PLUS ATX AM4 Motherboard	€140.94 @ Mindfactory
Memory	Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory	€127.90 @ Amazon Deutschland
Storage	Western Digital Blue 500 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive	€56.90 @ Alternate
Storage	Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	€57.59 @ Mindfactory
Video Card	Zotac GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB GAMING Twin Fan Video Card	€243.69 @ Amazon Deutschland
Case	Fractal Design Focus G ATX Mid Tower Case	€44.73 @ Amazon Deutschland
Power Supply	BitFenix Formula Gold 650 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply	€79.90 @ Amazon Deutschland
Case Fan	ARCTIC F12 CO 74 CFM 120 mm Fan	€6.99 @ Amazon Deutschland
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	€1243.63
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-12-03 14:28 CET+0100

I edited boggys part list for 1200

 

[boggy77]

7 minutes ago, Kasparasgre said:

Thanks for a fast reply.
In case of budget increase or decrease +-150eur (it is not strictly set), what components could be upgraded or downgraded? Also, which part of the system is essential for my previously mentioned tasks?

i've done a bit of research and it seems the cpu is the most important for 3dmax and vray.

with the extra budget, i'd upgrade to a 3900x or a 5800x(if you can find one).

[Kasparasgre]

@boggy77, @Downkey

 

 Upgrading from:
CPU: Intel I7-6700

GPU: Radeon RX480 8GB

RAM: 16GB 2133MHz

MB: MSI Bazooka B150M

SSD: Kingston A400 240GB

 

What should I upgrade for 144hz fps gaming in this system? IE Valorant?

 

[Kasparasgre]

Budget would be under 500USD

[Downkey]

38 minutes ago, Kasparasgre said:

@boggy77, @Downkey

 

 Upgrading from:
CPU: Intel I7-6700

GPU: Radeon RX480 8GB

RAM: 16GB 2133MHz

MB: MSI Bazooka B150M

SSD: Kingston A400 240GB

 

What should I upgrade for 144hz fps gaming in this system? IE Valorant?

 

I play valorant a lot (in fact I just got off it lol)

and your system looks completely fine for 144fps on Val.

 

if you had to upgrade, you could wait for a 3600 to come in stock, and then you could snag a used 1070, and then buy a new mobo and ram