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Tim84
By Tim84
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Hi everyone,

I'm looking for advise for a build. I'm looking to use a PC for work, and gaming. Work is picture editing (lightroom etc) as well as CAD work (Inventor,etc). For gaming i would like to play new games but not at 4K 1080p with high resolution is completely enough. My only request is that i'm able to drive 2 1080p monitors, but i have strictly no need for 4K, maybe later on for streaming movies to a 4K Monitor to watch movies but not to play.

Thanks  a lot for your help

 

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it's going to be hard to find a spherical case.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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it's going to be hard to find a spherical case.

Yeah. And stopping it from rolling away would be difficult.

 

But think about the cooling capacity you could get from all that surface area...

Passive cooling could be a breeze, having the thing almost completely silent.

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Yeah. And stopping it from rolling away would be difficult.

 

But think about the cooling capacity you could get from all that surface area...

Passive cooling could be a breeze, having the thing almost completely silent.

you'd need a UPS internally.

but the outside could be metal, and act as a passive radiator!

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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i7 4790k or 5820k. If your software can utilize CUDA, GTX970, if not r9 280x.

Overall difference in budget between Z97 and X99 will be ~$115 due to the price of ddr4 and x99 boards. For rendering the 2 extra cores would be worth it IMO.

LanSyndicate Build | i5-6600k | ASRock OC Formula | G.Skill 3600MHz | Samsung 850 Evo | MSI R9-290X 8GB Alphacool Block | Enthoo Pro M | XTR Pro 750w | Custom Loop |

Daily | 5960X | X99 Sabertooth | G.Skill 3000MHz | 750 NVMe | 850 Evo | x2 WD Se 2TB | x2 Seagate 3TB | Sapphire R9-290X 8GB | Enthoo Primo | EVGA 1000G2 | Custom Loop |

Game Box | 4690K | Z97i-Plus | G.Skill 2400MHz | x2 840 Evo | GTX 970 shorty | Corsair 250D modded with H105 | EVGA 650w B2 |

 

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Thanks a lot guys.

That's all highness components. The CAD i'm doing is very "easy" on graphics and processor. So i think the 5820k is overkill. I think all "k" are going zto be overkill. I'm not intending to overlock.

If you have no interest in overclocking then a Xeon 1231-v3 and an H97 board (full SATA III and modern feature support) will do just fine. Price of an i5 with the thread/core count of an i7. Will hold up just fine in gaming.

LanSyndicate Build | i5-6600k | ASRock OC Formula | G.Skill 3600MHz | Samsung 850 Evo | MSI R9-290X 8GB Alphacool Block | Enthoo Pro M | XTR Pro 750w | Custom Loop |

Daily | 5960X | X99 Sabertooth | G.Skill 3000MHz | 750 NVMe | 850 Evo | x2 WD Se 2TB | x2 Seagate 3TB | Sapphire R9-290X 8GB | Enthoo Primo | EVGA 1000G2 | Custom Loop |

Game Box | 4690K | Z97i-Plus | G.Skill 2400MHz | x2 840 Evo | GTX 970 shorty | Corsair 250D modded with H105 | EVGA 650w B2 |

 

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