First PC build

[PorteManteau]

Budget (including currency): 700-900€

Country: France

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Mainly music production and content creation (recording and editing video). Occasional 3D modeling/rendering and gaming (minecraft, sea of thieves...)

I will use 2 monitors, right now I only have one (1080) with my current laptop.

As of right now, this is what I'm planning to get this:

https://fr.pcpartpicker.com/list/bLQZh3

Can this be improved?

 

I'm worried the GPU might be a bit too overkill.

I'm also wondering if I should double the RAM? I often record multiple sources on OBS and I've heard that RAM is important for music production softwares.

Help much appreciated!

[MiszS]

If you can buy a used GPU, you can get an AM5 build, which will be slightly worse for blender because of less CPU cores (6 vs 8), but then you have a great upgrade path, and a way better GPU

https://fr.pcpartpicker.com/list/t3ZfqR

[bal7]

52 minutes ago, PorteManteau said:

Budget (including currency): 700-900€

Country: France

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Mainly music production and content creation (recording and editing video). Occasional 3D modeling/rendering and gaming (minecraft, sea of thieves...)

I will use 2 monitors, right now I only have one (1080) with my current laptop.

As of right now, this is what I'm planning to get this:

https://fr.pcpartpicker.com/list/bLQZh3

Can this be improved?

 

I'm worried the GPU might be a bit too overkill.

I'm also wondering if I should double the RAM? I often record multiple sources on OBS and I've heard that RAM is important for music production softwares.

Help much appreciated!

im not so professional at it but i think you picked everything best possible for your money on that build, and about ram, i think 32gb should be enough if you dont do huge projects

[MiszS]

2 minutes ago, bal723 said:

im not so professional at it but i think you picked everything best possible for your money on that build, and about ram, i think 32gb should be enough if you dont do huge projects

Isn't this an unbalanced CPU/GPU combo, or will blender run better with the 5800x? I thought it will run better on a rx 6800

[PorteManteau]

23 minutes ago, MiszS said:

If you can buy a used GPU, you can get an AM5 build, which will be slightly worse for blender because of less CPU cores (6 vs 8), but then you have a great upgrade path, and a way better GPU

https://fr.pcpartpicker.com/list/t3ZfqR

Thank you! Interesting alternative!

I forgot to mention but I'm not doing big blender renders and or scenes, mainly pretty low poly stuff.

That's why I was wondering if the GPU would be too beefy for my needs, would a better GPU help for recording and editing? or is it only for games and blender?

Sorry if I'm asking obvious stuff, I'm very much a novice to this.

[bal7]

1 minute ago, PorteManteau said:

Thank you! Interesting alternative!

I forgot to mention but I'm not doing big blender renders and or scenes, mainly pretty low poly stuff.

That's why I was wondering if the GPU would be too beefy for my needs, would a better GPU help for recording and editing? or is it only for games and blender?

Sorry if I'm asking obvious stuff, I'm very much a novice to this.

well, rx 6800 is one of best performance/price gpus out there its on level with 3080 but nvidia generally has a better encoder than amd, tho i dont think the difference will be  seen on streams

(may be a bad advice but you can wait till intel battlemage gpus come out and they will have one of (if not) the best encoders for av1 and h.264/265, also they should be pretty budget friendly)

[Jeppes]

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: Intel Core i5-14500 2.6 GHz 14-Core Processor  (€268.33 @ Amazon France)
CPU Cooler: ARCTIC Freezer 36 CPU Cooler  (€21.55 @ Amazon France)
Motherboard: Gigabyte B760M GAMING X DDR4 Micro ATX LGA1700 Motherboard  (€116.95 @ Amazon France)
Memory: G.Skill Aegis 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (€65.67 @ Amazon France)
Storage: Western Digital Black SN770 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  (€75.99 @ Western Digital)
Video Card: XFX Speedster MERC 308 Black Radeon RX 6650 XT 8 GB Video Card  (€239.00 @ Amazon France)
Case: ENDORFY Ventum 200 ATX Mid Tower Case  (€47.00 @ Amazon France)
Power Supply: Corsair TX650M 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply  (€69.00 @ Amazon France)
Total: €903.49
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2024-08-04 22:49 CEST+0200

[MiszS]

42 minutes ago, Jeppes said:

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: Intel Core i5-14500 2.6 GHz 14-Core Processor  (€268.33 @ Amazon France)
CPU Cooler: ARCTIC Freezer 36 CPU Cooler  (€21.55 @ Amazon France)
Motherboard: Gigabyte B760M GAMING X DDR4 Micro ATX LGA1700 Motherboard  (€116.95 @ Amazon France)
Memory: G.Skill Aegis 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  (€65.67 @ Amazon France)
Storage: Western Digital Black SN770 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive  (€75.99 @ Western Digital)
Video Card: XFX Speedster MERC 308 Black Radeon RX 6650 XT 8 GB Video Card  (€239.00 @ Amazon France)
Case: ENDORFY Ventum 200 ATX Mid Tower Case  (€47.00 @ Amazon France)
Power Supply: Corsair TX650M 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply  (€69.00 @ Amazon France)
Total: €903.49
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2024-08-04 22:49 CEST+0200

Seriously recommending intel 14th gen? Sure it's not a beefy i7/9, but still

[PorteManteau]

18 minutes ago, MiszS said:

Seriously recommending intel 14th gen? Sure it's not a beefy i7/9, but still

is it bad?

[MiszS]

15 minutes ago, PorteManteau said:

is it bad?

Yeah, literally all the i7 and i9s have been failing recently, with the lower end chips not so much, but still at risk

[Jeppes]

13 hours ago, MiszS said:

Yeah, literally all the i7 and i9s have been failing recently, with the lower end chips not so much, but still at risk

The fix is out is it not? 14500 is quite a bit faster than 5800x. Multi-core +30%

[MiszS]

1 minute ago, Jeppes said:

The fix is out is it not?

I thought it's not out yet, but we don't even know if it will fix the problem. Even if the CPUs were working fine, i don't understand why would u buy intel, when AM5 exists

[Jeppes]

7 minutes ago, MiszS said:

I thought it's not out yet, but we don't even know if it will fix the problem. Even if the CPUs were working fine, i don't understand why would u buy intel, when AM5 exists

7700 and 32GB of ddr5 is way out of budget. And 7700 is also behind 14500 in multi-core benchmarks.

[MiszS]

Just now, Jeppes said:

7700 and 32GB of ddr5 is way out of budget.

7700 is, but not rlly the ram, if OP needs those extra cores so badly, then imo AM4 is still a better option with the used market

[PorteManteau]

3 hours ago, MiszS said:

7700 is, but not rlly the ram, if OP needs those extra cores so badly, then imo AM4 is still a better option with the used market

well your build looks great, but as @Jeppes said, it is out of my budget. I'm still reluctant to buy an intel cpu tho. Would there be a good inbetween option?

[MiszS]

1 minute ago, PorteManteau said:

well your build looks great, but as @Jeppes said, it is out of my budget. I'm still reluctant to buy an intel cpu tho. Would there be a good inbetween option?

It's not our of your budget if you buy the 6800 used, if you don't want to do that, then you can get build like your first one, but with a 5700x, and a 6700xt

[Jeppes]

32 minutes ago, PorteManteau said:

well your build looks great, but as @Jeppes said, it is out of my budget. I'm still reluctant to buy an intel cpu tho. Would there be a good inbetween option?

Just get a 12600kf or 12700kf if you are paranoid about the issues on 13000 and 14000 series. 5800x is quite a bit slower on single core than those and even 12600kf beats it in multi-core too.