vote on favorite highly portable desktop

[firecrafter]

Hello I’m planning on making a highly portable desktop. This is the first time I have posted on the forums

and my first build and would really appreciate any advice on what I have planned for my portable pc.

I will link the pc part picker links at the end of the post I will list all the possible parts below

 

Please vote on your favorite from the PC part picker list, thank you.

 

1. Budget & Location

$1,400 USD + or - $200 I would prefer to keep it under $1450

2. Aim

3D work cad work in Auto CAD or Solidworks, video editing in Premier & Photoshop, and gaming from Minecraft to heavier graphic use games like Crysis 3

I would also like it to be in a small form factor to make it so I can move it easily I will most likely be taking it to events (like conventions) and school unless you believe I should use remote desktop or a similar solution

3. Monitors

I will start with 2 hopefully going to a 3 monitor setup with one in front the touch screen below and the third to the right. The touch screen is 1920x1080 the one I currently have is 1280x1024 and I hope to replace the 2 non touch monitors to in the future to 1440 or 1080 at the lest

4. Peripherals

I have windows 10 all the peripherals I will need

5. Why are you upgrading?

I am using an HP pavilion dv6 with an AMD A8 and it is time to replace it with my first desktop so I can do video editing and more cad work

 

Processor: i7 5820k or 6700k

 

CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i v2 – Corsair H105 – Cooler Master Nepton 280L

 

Motherboard: Asus X99-DELUXE/U3.1 – Asus X99-M WS Micro ATX - Asus B150I

 

RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 - Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133

 

GPU: listed at end of post 570 till new Nvidia cards come out

 

PSU:  EVGA SuperNOVA P2 850W part # (220-P2-0850-X1) – Corsair RM 850W

 

Case: Corsair 380T – Fractal Design Node 804 MicroATX – Corsair Air 240 MicroATX – Cooler Master HAF XB EVO ATX Desktop Case

 

Monitor: Acer UT220HQL bmjz 60Hz 21.5” (own Dell e176fpb)

 

HDD: WD Black 1TB 

 

SSD:  Samsung 950 PRO 256GB M.2-2280

 

OS/Software : (own Windows 10)

 

 

I will be using my brother’s old Egva 570hd until the new Nvidia cards come out. I understand that the 570 will not be able to handle most of what I want to do but it is just a place holder for now. Unless there is an issue that I do not know about then I will need to find a cheap hold over till the new cards are available

 

These are the links to the pc part picks builds there are four of them three have an i7 5820k the other one is an i7 6600k. would rather have the extra cores for the video editing but if does not make a difference then I would rather have i7 6600k so I can have the.

Streetguru showed me  a ITX X99 Motherboard that allows me to use the i7 5820k that I would rather use so i add another build 

 

1   http://pcpartpicker.com/p/pp3Y6h

2   http://pcpartpicker.com/p/J2YDbv

3   http://pcpartpicker.com/p/vBzVqs

4   http://pcpartpicker.com/p/37nRpg

5   http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Tstz8d Thansks to Streetguru for sowing me an ITX X99 Motherborad

[Trav_X]

5820k is definitely the better option for what you want to do. From 4 cores 8 threads to 6 cores 12 threads is a big difference for all the programs you said you wanted to use (except gaming, although a 5820k is good for that OC'd)

 

when you say "i7-6600k", do you mean i7-6700k or i5-6600k? I assumed i7-6700k because it's a high end workstation.

[don_svetlio]

Laptop?

[firecrafter]

yes a 6700k

2 minutes ago, Trav_X said:

5820k is definitely the better option for what you want to do. From 4 cores 8 threads to 6 cores 12 threads is a big difference for all the programs you said you wanted to use (except gaming, although a 5820k is good for that OC'd)

 

when you say "i7-6600k", do you mean i7-6700k or i5-6600k? I assumed i7-6700k because it's a high end workstation.

 

[Streetguru]

23 minutes ago, firecrafter said:

 

Wait I thought you said highly portable, you could go with a HAF XB I guess, it's ATX and made to be portable, however here's an ITX X99 system with an R9 Nano

The motherboard comes with a cooler, but you might have trouble finding a 2011-3 Narrow mounted heat sink, though the Core 500 does support up to 240mm radiators

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Pj8Vqs
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Pj8Vqs/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  ($369.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock X99E-ITX/ac Mini ITX LGA2011-3 Narrow Motherboard  ($249.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($49.50 @ Newegg)
Storage: Mushkin ECO3 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($46.98 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Asus Radeon R9 Nano 4GB Video Card  ($469.99 @ Micro Center)
Case: Fractal Design Core 500 Mini ITX Desktop Case  ($59.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: SeaSonic G 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($69.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $1376.42
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-01 11:53 EDT-0400

[firecrafter]

Streetguru

Thank you for the build i will look at that as an option. and yes the HAF XB is really pushing the limits of portability for me.

 

Thanks for showing me the motherboard I had no idea ther there was an ITX X99 chipset I added to a new build that Ilke a lot

[firecrafter]

8 hours ago, don_svetlio said:

Laptop?

Even the high end laptops Linus reviews are not what i'm looking, I know there are some out there even better than what i would like to build but i would rather have a small form factor desktop computer

 

[Trav_X]

6 hours ago, firecrafter said:

Even the high end laptops Linus reviews are not what i'm looking, I know there are some out there even better than what i would like to build but i would rather have a small form factor desktopcomputer

 

Agreed, for workstation kind of stuff and gaming, a portable ITX Rig or something like that will perform much better than a laptop  

[firecrafter]

i'm just unsure if i should go with a Micro ATX or ITX motherboard i don't plan on SLI but it would be nice to have  lest two expansion slots but I don't have a anything that I would put in it right now