Game development

[Bladeseer]

Hello guys , this autumn I'm going to college in England ( I'm from Romania) at Bournemouth university at Software design for animations games and effects and my current PC is running kinda slow ( i5 2500k , 960, 8gb RAM , 2x 128gb ssd's and 1 TB HDD ) . I was thinking of going all-out with a x99 platform but I don't really know what to buy ! Will a 5930k and a 980ti with 32 gigs of RAM be overkill ? On my rig while working in blender and unreal it stutters alot . I want to build a PC that can help me in my studies , work and gaming . For a monitor I'll go with 2 monitors one 24"/27 144hz the otherone will be a normal 24" that can pivot . Periferals will be a tenkeyless mechanical keyboard and my trusty mionix naos . Thanks in advance and I hope to hear from you guys pretty soon . Have a nice one 

[Nineshadow]

Salut.

O sa fie un pic overkill , dar ma rog , cum crezi tu.

[Bladeseer]

5 minutes ago, Bigfootmandude said:

Unreal is pretty CPU intensive so X99 is definitely worth it long term. I would also say that the 5820k is probably better value, unless you plan on going for SLI + NVME drive + other PCIe based expansion cards. Personally when working with unreal 16 GB is fine, but if you have the budget 32 would give you lots of room, say if you work on a large level with lots of elements.  As for the GPU, I would highly recommend waiting for Pascal or Polaris to launch. The potential performance and VRAM improvements is too much to miss out on. I would recommend sticking with the 960 until details and benchmarks are released.  

 

What resolutions of monitor are planning? 

Unreal works very nice on 1440p panels. One last note, if you plan on doing game effects it would be wise to take colour accuracy into account. TN panels just don't cut it. 

Do you have a set budget, or any a PC part picker link for us to view? 

 

Hope that helps, Bigfootmandude.

I am really thinking of waiting for Pascal I've heard only good things about it , and I am planning to get faster storage in some time maybe next year when the prices are a little lower and sli is coming for sure . About the monitors the 144hz one will be 1440p ( I have my eyes on a IPS Acer ) but for color accuracy well I really don't know . The RAM ,well the difference between 16 and 32 isn't that big ( price ) soo I can go the extra mile . The budget would be 2500£-3000£ with monitors and a some Periferals . 

[Bladeseer]

20 minutes ago, Nineshadow said:

Salut.

O sa fie un pic overkill , dar ma rog , cum crezi tu.

Pai eu am lucrat pe calculatorul unui coleg de la muncă și mergea turbină nu știu ce să zic . Am muncit și am banii doar ca încerc să fac rost de un PC care să mă tina toată facultatea (4 ani) în cele mai bune condiții . Nu prea vreau să mai stau ore cât se randeaza ceva sau să văd acolo 59 de fps în witcher3 :)) . Dacă ai niște ideii sunt deschis la propuneri :D.

[Bladeseer]

20 minutes ago, Bigfootmandude said:

Unreal is pretty CPU intensive so X99 is definitely worth it long term. I would also say that the 5820k is probably better value, unless you plan on going for SLI + NVME drive + other PCIe based expansion cards. Personally when working with unreal 16 GB is fine, but if you have the budget 32 would give you lots of room, say if you work on a large level with lots of elements.  As for the GPU, I would highly recommend waiting for Pascal or Polaris to launch. The potential performance and VRAM improvements is too much to miss out on. I would recommend sticking with the 960 until details and benchmarks are released.  

 

What resolutions of monitor are planning? 

Unreal works very nice on 1440p panels. One last note, if you plan on doing game effects it would be wise to take colour accuracy into account. TN panels just don't cut it. 

Do you have a set budget, or any a PC part picker link for us to view? 

 

Hope that helps, Bigfootmandude.

And this would be a build ( http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/rHBd3C ) Thanks a lot for your help. 

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1 hour ago, Bigfootmandude said:

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

 

1. Swapped out for the 5820k - still very fast 6 core, better value by far.

2. Switched out CPU cooler. I have heard that Be Quiet Coolers are a pain to install. Optional if you have someone else build it for you. 

3. Replaced the 980ti with budget room for the Pascal or Polaris GPU.

4. (Optional) Added a 1440p monitor for any work that requires colour accuracy. It is only 60Hz but it will outperform the other two with colour accuracy. If you would rather pass I would at least spend some money on a monitor calibrator, so that you get the best colours out of the two monitors you do buy.

 

Everything else looks like a BA system. 

 

It looks like you plan on putting the 850's in RAID 0? 

If you do buy a secondary drive that's only purpose is to act as redundancy for the raid. You do not want that to fail on you, and to have you lose files.

In that case: go for something like this:

 

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/Nygm4D

 

Which works out to roughly the same price as your original build. 

 

You can always buy the monitor calibrator when you need it.

 

 

Wow thanks for all the help dude , I think I'll go with the benq and the cheap Asus 144hz monitors and I really forgot the redundancy drive . Thanks for all your help , it really answered all my questions . I will post updates in a few months with the build thanks a lot and hope to talk again . Cheers !