Choosing Between 2 Rigs

[PowerHotmail]

Hello guys,

 

Earlier, I posted a thread on a PC I will be purchasing in a few months. And, a person suggested a different rig, for around the same price, which packed more of a punch. But now, I need to choose, this is where you guys come in. Which one should I choose?

 

I will be using the PC for Medium/Heavy 3D Modeling/Rendering. As well as making detailed games using both Unreal Engine 4 and Unity 5. Also, I will be using Adobe CC (Creative Cloud). The most-used apps in Adobe CC will be: Premier Pro, Illustrator, Photoshop and After Effects. I will be trying to get a high - medium overclock. I will be playing games at 1440p, and want to record them at 1080/1440p; using Fraps/Dxtory, but later on I will be developing my own Screen Recorder. 

 

First PC: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/T9nBJx

 

Second PC: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/RBFLnQ

 

So, which one should I choose?

[ShadowCaptain]

Honestly for the tiny difference in price, I would get the 5820k build - worth it in the long run! whats an extra £200 at this point

 

Also why not get a better monitor? for an extra £50-£100 you can get a 27" 1440p IPS panel

 

also if you are recording gameplay, use shadowplay tbh unless you really need what DXTory brings (main thing for me is seperate audio tracks) - its pretty awesome quality and no drop in performance - if you record it in a high bit rate you can apply some colour correction/grading etc and get decent footage

 

 

I will say that getting an external recorder you are limited to 1080p 30/60 or 4k 30/60 - there are none that do 1440p (afaik)

[PowerHotmail]

What would that be?

[Dzzope]

Made a couple of edits to save some cash and in some places even give more performance / power (SSD & PSU)

I would also suggest dropping the WD black and just use another SSD for a scratch disk. (1 ssd for os, games, apps & 1 for scratch) with something cheaper for your long-term storage. Not that I would advise greens, especially if you will use them allot.

 

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/DX3GD3

 

For what your doing.. I'd be tempted to go x79 second hand with a 6 or 8 core.. couple of second-hand titans too.. the double precision I'm assuming is useful but I know the ram is..

 

You can save a bucket on second hand with minimal performance impact.

 

Last things I'll say are:

 

Get raid on your storage drive for duplication and back-up regularly.

Don't generally OC pc's that you use for business.. you want it to be rock solid and little chance as possible of anything going wrong.

 

 

Finally, with such a build and use-case.. I'd be sorely tempted by an Acer Predator XB270HU for the monitor and 2 seperate rigs.. 1 for editing 1 for rendering... you can get old E5 rigs / servers for next to nout that can chew through renders and such in another room and then have a nice beefy gaming rig to play / edit on.

 

 

Ohh and finally, come back in a few months when your ready to buy... much can and will change.

[Dzzope]

Ohh and worth checking out is the LTT video on memory usage and how much you need (goes into more than memory, well worth a watch for you IMO

[PowerHotmail]

Made a couple of edits to save some cash and in some places even give more performance / power (SSD & PSU)

I would also suggest dropping the WD black and just use another SSD for a scratch disk. (1 ssd for os, games, apps & 1 for scratch) with something cheaper for your long-term storage. Not that I would advise greens, especially if you will use them allot.

 

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/DX3GD3

 

For what your doing.. I'd be tempted to go x79 second hand with a 6 or 8 core.. couple of second-hand titans too.. the double precision I'm assuming is useful but I know the ram is..

 

You can save a bucket on second hand with minimal performance impact.

 

Last things I'll say are:

 

Get raid on your storage drive for duplication and back-up regularly.

Don't generally OC pc's that you use for business.. you want it to be rock solid and little chance as possible of anything going wrong.

 

 

Finally, with such a build and use-case.. I'd be sorely tempted by an Acer Predator XB270HU for the monitor and 2 seperate rigs.. 1 for editing 1 for rendering... you can get old E5 rigs / servers for next to nout that can chew through renders and such in another room and then have a nice beefy gaming rig to play / edit on.

 

 

Ohh and finally, come back in a few months when your ready to buy... much can and will change.

 

Thanks for the really detailed reply! I would like to be using this PC for a good 2 - 3 years (or even less, depending on how successful my games are). I really do not want to go with used hardware; I want the peace of mind. I would also like to stick to the color scheme of red/black. Also, I was planning to Raid 1 the WD Black and the WD Green. Not only that, but also, I won't be upgrading this PC much, the biggest thing will probably more storage/RAM - so don't you think the PSU is a bit overkill?

 

I will be keeping the RAM you gave me, but where is the black-colored crucial ballistic? It would match the build quite nicely - just checked PC Part Picker, and there is black HyperX memory, should I go for that?. For me, the motherboard isn't a good choice. I don't want to be running a high-end system in one of the cheapest motherboards, so I will be keeping the MSI X99S Gaming 7 Motherboard.

 

Here is the updated list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/6bQsgs

[Dzzope]

Overkill, yes absolutely but great price and should run really quiet with low load.

 

Going green/black in raid sounds like a bad idea to me, it'll slow down the writes horribly (in my head, no numbers or anything to back me up on this)

 

Motherboard.. Really as long as the components are decent quality (vrm's caps etc) and it has all the features you need, there is little difference. THE chipset is standard, not like it used to be where you would have multiple vendors with chipsets for the same cpu.

 

RAM is generally ram.. these days it makes very little difference in brand. As long as the spec's are the same. (and the look is what you want) And depending on the size of what your working with 32GB is more than enough.. But thats down to individual use-cases

 

On keeping it for 2-3 years.. Really a gpu refresh and maybe if your finding you need the extra cores, drop in an 8 core or bigger cpu, this should last you a good 6 years if not more. Don't see there being anything spectacular on the horizon to change platform for ages.. Hell, I'd still be on my x58 i7 950 if my ex didn't take it for photoshop / rendering..

 

If you really want future-proof.. Intel 750 is the way to go on the SSD. 2400 read/1200write.!!!

 

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/69131-intel-ssd-750-series-review.html

[PowerHotmail]

Well, I will be using this PC to make games on Steam, and if that goes well, I will have money to get something really powerful - I'm talking about the 5960X with a £1K - £2K custom water-cooling loop; and maybe 2 -3 Titan X's in SLI.