New Workstation Build - $5000

[DailyProcrastinator]

So I'm in the process of starting my own business venture where I will be providing and building 3D designs for clients, either jus the cad design or with my 3D printer also providing molds an/or prototypes. For my first client that I just now landed I will also be creating a short film of what their new product is made to do, that will then be shown to the companies board. I have a background in video editing and 3D design already, however, with having the budget up front to buy new equipment and possibly build a new workstation computer I'm thinking I'm in a serious need of a new system, just for work. My primary system I use currently (Blueberry Pie) has an i7-6700k with an Asus GTX 980 Ti Stix OC and it's been doing wonders for me but I feel like the latest Ryzen 7 1800x and the just released GTX 1080 Ti would greatly benefit me.

My absolute max budget is $5000 CAD. Below is what I've come up with:

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/TtpfGf

Ryzen 7 CPU's seem like the perfect choice, they are very competitively priced and as I literally don't care about gaming at all with this particular build I think that I would get spectacular performance for my main use which is Adobe Premiere Pro and Autocad. My reasoning for a GTX 1080 Ti is the 3500+ Cuda cores, which when I built my current main system is why I bought the GTX 980 Ti (high Cuda core count). The $1000 GTX 1080 is to represent the MSRP of the founders edition GTX 1080 Ti's when the release here in Canada. Storage is very important and I wouldn't look to cut back on anything really, the m.2 is for OS and program files, the 2 SSD's will be cinfigured in Raid 0 for super fast storage, and the 6TB hard drives are for mass storage, although I will be using file copying software to have data redundancy on one hard drive to another as I cannot always be hooked up to my server. The cooler is nothing special as by the end of summer I would probably do a custom loop, effectively cooling the CPU and GPU. Other than that I did choose the best $/GB SSD's available here in Canada and one of the best $/GB 7200RPM hard drives available as well. For the RAM I'd ideally go for high-speed RAM, and as I tend to eat up a lot of memory in Autocad I would go for a minimum of 2x16GB sticks for now. But I did add the best $/GB non-ugly RAM available for the time being (64GB). If anyone has some other suggestions I'm open to hear them all, I was thinking of maybe going for a Quadro card as well? Although there may not be much room in the budget. 

I do not need any peripherals in this budget.

 

Thanks in advanced.

[robertpartridge]

17 minutes ago, JM21 said:

So I'm in the process of starting my own business venture where I will be providing and building 3D designs for clients, either jus the cad design or with my 3D printer also providing molds an/or prototypes. For my first client that I just now landed I will also be creating a short film of what their new product is made to do, that will then be shown to the companies board. I have a background in video editing and 3D design already, however, with having the budget up front to buy new equipment and possibly build a new workstation computer I'm thinking I'm in a serious need of a new system, just for work. My primary system I use currently (Blueberry Pie) has an i7-6700k with an Asus GTX 980 Ti Stix OC and it's been doing wonders for me but I feel like the latest Ryzen 7 1800x and the just released GTX 1080 Ti would greatly benefit me.

My absolute max budget is $5000 CAD. Below is what I've come up with:

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/TtpfGf

Ryzen 7 CPU's seem like the perfect choice, they are very competitively priced and as I literally don't care about gaming at all with this particular build I think that I would get spectacular performance for my main use which is Adobe Premiere Pro and Autocad. My reasoning for a GTX 1080 Ti is the 3500+ Cuda cores, which when I built my current main system is why I bought the GTX 980 Ti (high Cuda core count). The $1000 GTX 1080 is to represent the MSRP of the founders edition GTX 1080 Ti's when the release here in Canada. Storage is very important and I wouldn't look to cut back on anything really, the m.2 is for OS and program files, the 2 SSD's will be cinfigured in Raid 0 for super fast storage, and the 6TB hard drives are for mass storage, although I will be using file copying software to have data redundancy on one hard drive to another as I cannot always be hooked up to my server. The cooler is nothing special as by the end of summer I would probably do a custom loop, effectively cooling the CPU and GPU. Other than that I did choose the best $/GB SSD's available here in Canada and one of the best $/GB 7200RPM hard drives available as well. For the RAM I'd ideally go for high-speed RAM, and as I tend to eat up a lot of memory in Autocad I would go for a minimum of 2x16GB sticks for now. But I did add the best $/GB non-ugly RAM available for the time being (64GB). If anyone has some other suggestions I'm open to hear them all, I was thinking of maybe going for a Quadro card as well? Although there may not be much room in the budget. 

I do not need any peripherals in this budget.

 

Thanks in advanced.

Going to look over your list.  Let me ask now though - are you willing to overclock?  The R7 1700 is a much better value with almost no performance loss after overclocking.

[DailyProcrastinator]

7 minutes ago, robertpartridge said:

Going to look over your list.  Let me ask now though - are you willing to overclock?  The R7 1700 is a much better value with almost no performance loss after overclocking.

 

Yeah, I'm always down to overclock haha! I haven't looked into it much on the Ryzen 7 platform, but I've heard Ryzen 7 chips don't really overclock very much/very well? Don't know how valid that claim is though.

[robertpartridge]

2 minutes ago, JM21 said:

Yeah, I'm always down to overclock haha! I haven't looked into it much on the Ryzen 7 platform, but I've heard Ryzen 7 chips don't really overclock very much/very well? Don't know how valid that claim is though.

Thr R7 1700s are clocking up near 4.0Ghz like their bigger bros.

[DailyProcrastinator]

8 minutes ago, robertpartridge said:

Thr R7 1700s are clocking up near 4.0Ghz like their bigger bros.

Hmmm interesting, I'll look into it, thanks! Especially since I plan on doing a custom loop down the road.

[brob]

A few suggestions.

 

If the 1800X cpu fits the budget keep it. While a 1700 may well oc to match an 1800X at stock, presumably the later will oc even higher.

 

Of course oc always depends on the silicon lottery. One might well get a 1700 that will not oc very well, or may hit 4.0GHz, no way to know for sure. Second advantage of going with an 1800X, its stock speed range is assured.

 

If you do elect to go with a 1700, stick with the stock cooler since the plan is to add a custom loop in the near future.

 

As much as I love Asus motherboards, I would suggest going with an MSI board that supports 2xM.2 drives. One can then go with two 1TB 960 Evo drives. Each of which will outperform RAID 0 SATA III ssd.

 

I would suggest memory kits with better timings. If you decide to get all the memory at once, choose a quad channel kit. This will eliminate the remote possibility of mixing up the modules and ending up with the memory operating in single channel mode.

 

Unless there are features you need in Windows 10 Pro, you migth consider going with the standard version.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD RYZEN 7 1800X 3.6GHz 8-Core Processor  ($661.06 @ shopRBC) 
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master MasterAir Pro 4 66.7 CFM CPU Cooler  ($62.64 @ Amazon Canada) 
Motherboard: MSI X370 GAMING PRO CARBON ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($252.00 @ shopRBC) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($319.99 @ Amazon Canada) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($319.99 @ Amazon Canada) 
Storage: Samsung 960 Evo 1TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  ($628.50 @ Vuugo) 
Storage: Samsung 960 Evo 1TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  ($628.50 @ Vuugo) 
Storage: Seagate IronWolf 6TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($273.50 @ Vuugo) 
Storage: Seagate IronWolf 6TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($273.50 @ Vuugo) 
Case: Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX Glass ATX Mid Tower Case  ($239.99 @ NCIX) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA P2 850W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($179.98 @ DirectCanada) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home Full - USB 32/64-bit  ($128.98 @ DirectCanada) 
Other: Placeholder for GTX 1080 Ti ($1000.00)
Total: $4968.63
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-03-09 19:07 EST-0500

[DailyProcrastinator]

4 minutes ago, brob said:

A few suggestions.

 

If the 1800X cpu fits the budget keep it. While a 1700 may well oc to match an 1800X at stock, presumably the later will oc even higher.

 

Of course oc always depends on the silicon lottery. One might well get a 1700 that will not oc very well, or may hit 4.0GHz, no way to know for sure. Second advantage of going with an 1800X, its stock speed range is assured.

 

If you do elect to go with a 1700, stick with the stock cooler since the plan is to add a custom loop in the near future.

 

As much as I love Asus motherboards, I would suggest going with an MSI board that supports 2xM.2 drives. One can then go with two 1TB 960 Evo drives. Each of which will outperform RAID 0 SATA III ssd.

 

I would suggest memory kits with better timings. If you decide to get all the memory at once, choose a quad channel kit. This will eliminate the remote possibility of mixing up the modules and ending up with the memory operating in single channel mode.

 

Unless there are features you need in Windows 10 Pro, you migth consider going with the standard version.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD RYZEN 7 1800X 3.6GHz 8-Core Processor  ($661.06 @ shopRBC) 
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master MasterAir Pro 4 66.7 CFM CPU Cooler  ($62.64 @ Amazon Canada) 
Motherboard: MSI X370 GAMING PRO CARBON ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($252.00 @ shopRBC) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($319.99 @ Amazon Canada) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  ($319.99 @ Amazon Canada) 
Storage: Samsung 960 Evo 1TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  ($628.50 @ Vuugo) 
Storage: Samsung 960 Evo 1TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  ($628.50 @ Vuugo) 
Storage: Seagate IronWolf 6TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($273.50 @ Vuugo) 
Storage: Seagate IronWolf 6TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($273.50 @ Vuugo) 
Case: Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX Glass ATX Mid Tower Case  ($239.99 @ NCIX) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA P2 850W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($179.98 @ DirectCanada) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home Full - USB 32/64-bit  ($128.98 @ DirectCanada) 
Other: Placeholder for GTX 1080 Ti ($1000.00)
Total: $4968.63
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-03-09 19:07 EST-0500

 

Yeah, I think I would probably stick with the 1800x, but thanks for the advice! I'm always on the need for fast storage and 2 m.2 drives would be wicked. Also, I'm so accustomed to building with Intel K-skew processors that I completely forgot about stock coolers, thanks for the reminder haha!

[Flavio hc 16]

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