Looking for recommendations - Programmer PC

[SaurabhJ]

Budget (including currency): AU$2500

Country: Australia

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Heavy Programming - Front end & Back end servers. IntelliJ, Github, Salesforce SFDC.

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): 

Don't care about graphics or how the case looks RGB or not. 

Should be able to run multiple windows of IDE and multiple localhost servers of node.js (Currently running around 10 servers at once on my macbook and it really struggles)

PS: Not a windows fan. 

 

 

[riklaunim]

Did you checked Ryzen availability, or maybe even any discounts on 1000 and 2000 Threadrippers? I would aim at 1TB SSD (in my case it gives a lot of free space for Docker/Kubernetes to not moan about being "under pressure" ). PCIe 4.0 SSD is rather pointless here.

[SaurabhJ]

Yes , cheapest available zen - Threadripper 2970WX @ AU$1699. It way overshoots the budget  

1 minute ago, riklaunim said:

Did you checked Ryzen availability, or maybe even any discounts on 1000 and 2000 Threadrippers? I would aim at 1TB SSD (in my case it gives a lot of free space for Docker/Kubernetes to not moan about being "under pressure" )

 

[Action_Johnson]

$660 seems like alot for 10 cores.

 

If availability is decent, I would legit look into a Ryzen system with a 5800 or 5900 if you're going to use 3600 RAM, that way you can work in 1:1:1 with FCLK and it's not an overclock like it'd be on Intel, plus you can get 12, faster cores, for less money. I think even a 3900X would be a better value. 

 

Also, do not buy a Gigabyte PSU, it'll be total garbage. I've been running Corsair PSU's, and my work rig has a 12 year old TX650 in it and it still runs perfect. 

 

For a GPU, just get a GT710 or GT1030. 

 

[riklaunim]

7 minutes ago, SaurabhJ said:

Yes , cheapest available zen - Threadripper 2970WX @ AU$1699. It way overshoots the budget  

 

That's bit to many cores. IMHO 16-cores is max so 1920X, 1950X, 2920x, 2950X. Those will be slower single core than Ryzen 5900X, 5950X or even 3900X, 3950X but also quite often extremely discounted due to that (and available here and there as leftovers). On the bonus side you get lots of PCIe lanes (lots of NVMe storage if needed, multiple GPUs even in the future if needed) and quad channel RAM.

 

And check those Ryzens too. If you want to look for bargains things like Ryzen 3900 (no-X) can be cheaper as a slightly cut down version of 3900X. The 5000-series would be the most performant but it's up to you if you want to push it that hard vs price. I'm still using 1920X for my dev box.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

12 minutes ago, Action_Johnson said:

a GPU, just get a GT710 or GT1030

I would go for something Radeon of similar stature (support is better in Linux)

[SupaKomputa]

55 minutes ago, SaurabhJ said:

Heavy Programming - Front end & Back end servers

In my experience, unless you're actually serving the content to people, this doesn't take much of the computing power.

I would go for Ryzen 5600x (500 aud) + Asrock B550 Pro4 (170aud).

No, you don't need a threadripper.

Samsung 970 as the Nvme, you don't need 980 as pcie4 is not supported on that cpu (10900k)

Your gonna need a gpu.

[SaurabhJ]

thanks for recommendation geeks and peeps

dropped intel and going with zen 

[SupaKomputa]

Deepcool gammax and the stock cooler perform similarly, i would opt for a beefier dual tower cooler like Noctua D15 or Dark Rock pro 4.

430 aud for gtx1650 is funny, it's worth 200 really.