professional Illustrator build questions

[Mediochre]

So we desperately are getting to the point where our current home workstation is going to die and we need advice on whether we should buy what's out there now or wait for new Broadwell-E stuff, particularly the 6950X. The machine must be capable of handling the illustration programs, streaming, recording, rendering and some gaming. Largely just MMO's like Guild Wars 2 and Blade and Soul. Also being designed to be as future proof as possible. Programs typically used right now are Paintool SAI, DAZ studio,and GIMP but are planning to transition to Krita in the future and possibly Blender while also sometimes using OBS to stream simultaneously. Currently uses a Wacom Intuos 3 tablet but will eventually be upgrading all the way to a Cintiq but that's a whole other investment. Windows 7 would be the operating system, We've had nothing but trouble with Windows 8/8.1 and don't even talk to us about Windows 10. Personally I'm at the point of just wanting to load Gentoo or Debian or some other Linux distribution other than Ubuntu and be done with it but that's not feasible at the moment.

 

Budget is $5000CAD.or so

 

Full build as currently researched would look something like this:

CPU: i7 5960X

MOBO: Probably either an Asus Rampage V or Deluxe, not 100% sure yet

RAM: Probably Corsair Dominator Platinum 128GB of some type (I assume you can use the other 64GB as a dedicated RAMdisk)

GPU Zotac 980 TI AMP

SSD: Probably a Samsung 850 or 950 PRO

HDD: Something with about a TB of storage

Power Supply: Probably an EVGA 1000W for future upgrading

Case: Corsair 900D to ensure everything absolutely fits, fans, upgrade potential, and relative ease of maintenance.

 

This may seem overkill but we don't want to HAVE to buy another workstation for at least 7 years after this. Things we may do is throw in a second 980 TI to that end but not sure yet.

Nor are we sure about liquid cooling to extend the life of components.

 

Build we are coming from, bought in 2009:

 

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4

Mobo: Asus M4A78-E

RAM: 4GB

GPU: Some ATI 4800 series 512MB one

HDD: Some 500GB one

Power Supply: Some 300W one I think

Case: Some Cooler Master ATX one

 

This thing is still amazingly not dead considering how hard it's been pushed all these years but I suspect the components are starting to physically wear out on it.

 

So the question is, should we wait another 3 months or so whenever the 6950X and whatever else is new gets released or is it just not worth it and we should refine the current build idea and just grab it now?

 

Or any other suggestions you might have.

[Streetguru]

17 minutes ago, Mediochre said:

 

It's not worth paying the extra money to get the 8 core chip, you're paying a ton of money for an i3's worth of performance essentially, not worth it

 

Broadwell-E Also probably won't be worth it, 5% bump, no real other major changes.
 

Otherwise, new GPUs are coming in a few months so wait for that instead of buying a high end GPU now, why don't you just get like a 380 or 390 for now?

And What kind of displays are you running? Why not upgrade to high end 4k IPS displays?


There'd be my suggestion, and it's hardly at 2K CAD, you don't need much more than that, buy a high end display man

 

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CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor  ($486.50 @ shopRBC)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($37.99 @ DirectCanada)
Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme4/3.1 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard  ($355.62 @ DirectCanada)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($139.88 @ Canada Computers)
Storage: Samsung 950 PRO 512GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  ($405.98 @ Newegg Canada)
Storage: Western Digital Red 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($109.99 @ DirectCanada)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 390 8GB Nitro Video Card  ($379.88 @ Canada Computers)
Case: Deepcool TESSERACT BF ATX Mid Tower Case  ($44.99 @ Amazon Canada)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($113.74 @ DirectCanada)
Total: $2074.57
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[Mediochre]

The monitor is a Benq BL3201PH which is a high end display, already got that covered.

 

The upgraded GPU's might end up being a better buy.