€1400 Blank Slate.

user7 · June 28, 2022

Budget (including currency): €1400

Country: France

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Mostly for art/animation work using everything Adobe. 3d modelling using maya. and gaming. but non demanding titles such as LoL, valorent, apex legends.

Other details: Just the pc by itself. 1 monitor at 1080, or maybe 1440 if budget allows.

I am asking on behalf of my friend. but since i have been out of the loop for a very long time, i'd absolutely love some assistance.

thank you.

0brine · June 28, 2022

This is my build, pritty simular buget, I think you could modify my build by leaving out the CPU cooler (pre shipped is probaply fine, your CPU wont be the bottleneck) and maby a 3060 instead of the 3070

RONOTHAN## · June 28, 2022

https://fr.pcpartpicker.com/list/wz7vbK

This is what I would get.

The 12600K is a very solid CPU for the price, good multi core performance and very fast single thread performance. I would recommend if you can to upgrade the CPU to a 12700F instead, it is quite a bit faster for not that much more, but currently it is out of the budget with the other decisions I'd rather have.
Decent cooler, nothing special but should keep the chip cool.
Good motherboard, solid VRM.
32GB of RAM is about the minimum I'd want for this system if you're doing modeling and work with Adobe.
P400A is a good case, though if you want to save a couple dollars the Fractal Design Focus G is also good and a little cheaper.
Good PSU, 650W is about the minimum I'd recommend for a system like this.

For the GPU, it's a bit complicated. I'd feel like the 3060 is the card that makes the most sense for this system. For gaming, it's overkill for everything you want to do and there are cheaper cards that are just as fast. However, those cards are AMD and Adobe software is pretty notorious for not really liking AMD hardware, so I'd say they're out of the running if that's the main thing you do on the system. Still, if you just need gaming performance something like a 1660 Super would do just fine. The reason I think the 3060 would make the most sense is because of the 12GB of VRAM which would allow for some fairly large projects to render right on the GPU, and the 3060 is the cheapest card that has that. If you want to look at used GPUs, the 1080 Ti is a bit cheaper, a bit faster, and has 11GB of VRAM so it would be my preferred card to the 3060, but if you want the warranty and to go new, the 3060 is likely your best bet.

4 minutes ago, 0brine said:

I think you could modify my build by leaving out the CPU cooler (pre shipped is probaply fine, your CPU wont be the bottleneck)

The 12600KF that you have doesn't include a CPU cooler, this is not an option.

Edited June 28, 2022 by RONOTHAN##