Posted June 19, 2017 Hi Everyone New here but just wanted to get people opinions on a small business workstation build. If anyone has any alternatives or better ideas I would love to hear them! Not built something for this use before so if anyone has and has some insight that would help a lot! What will be the main use? Main use for this PC will be every day office tasks, a lot of spreadsheets and document writing, along with email and web browsing. It will also be used for CAD using autodesk inventor and content creation using Inkscape, gimp, photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom and premiere pro. Basically it needs to do everything at a reasonable pace but will never be used for gaming. Budget: I would like to keep this sub £2500 (4220 CAD according to DDG) The Monitor: This is one thing I'm really not sure on, I have gone with 27" 1440 as I've heard that unless you go 40" with 4k then stuff like spreadsheets and document writing can become hard on the eyes. Also any video editing will be 1080 (along with 2k go pro and scaled down) for the foreseeable. 100%sRGB is good, don't really want to splash out for 100% Adobe RGB, unless you disagree with this and its more useful than I realise? MOBO: ASrock X370 TaiChi CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 (Looking for a 3.8 - 3.9ghz overclock if stable) BOOT DRIVE: 250gb Samsung 960 EVO PCIe M.2 STORAGE: 1TB Samsung 850 EVO SATAIII GPU: Sapphire RX580 Pulse 8GB RAM: 32GB Corsair DDR4 Vengeance 3000mhz PSU: 650w EVGA G3 Modular CASE: BeQuiet! Pure Base 600 Mid COOLING: BeQuiet! 280mm silent AIO w/ Arctic MX-4 Thermal MONITOR: 27" Asus MX27AQ OS: Windows 10 Pro Thanks for any help! Link to comment https://linustechtips.com/topic/795457-small-business-system/ Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 19, 2017 To be honnest i would get a quadro card as they are dessinged for things like that. Link to comment https://linustechtips.com/topic/795457-small-business-system/#findComment-10013916 Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 19, 2017 Author Thought about the Quadro but since I will not be using a true 10 bit monitor or rendering anything that will take long enough to benefit from the added stability I thought it would be better to get a more powerful card at that price point as the Quadro would increase the budget alot. Also the CAD use wont be anything overly complex and parts will be fairly low. Have you used a Quadro card and are they worth the price? If so then I will definitely consider that! Link to comment https://linustechtips.com/topic/795457-small-business-system/#findComment-10013935 Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 19, 2017 PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 1700 3.0GHz 8-Core Processor (£279.99 @ Amazon UK) Motherboard: MSI - B350M GAMING PRO Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (£76.80 @ Alza) Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LED 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£234.60 @ Aria PC) Storage: Samsung - 960 EVO 1TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive (£388.79 @ Aria PC) Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£59.95 @ Amazon UK) Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Founders Edition Video Card (£677.95 @ CCL Computers) Case: Thermaltake - Core V21 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£53.03 @ Amazon UK) Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£85.32 @ CCL Computers) Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Pro Full 32/64-bit (£179.48 @ Scan.co.uk) Monitor: Asus - MX27AQ 27.0" 2560x1440 60Hz Monitor (£377.77 @ Amazon UK) Total: £2413.68Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when availableGenerated by PCPartPicker 2017-06-19 13:25 BST+0100 Link to comment https://linustechtips.com/topic/795457-small-business-system/#findComment-10013942 Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 19, 2017 Author That looks great thanks! I notice you went for a 1080ti, will this make a huge difference or will be saving some money and getting an 8GB 1080 suffice? Just wondering how big the improvement is from 1080 to 1080ti for my needs? Link to comment https://linustechtips.com/topic/795457-small-business-system/#findComment-10013961 Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 19, 2017 11 minutes ago, Neil5000 said: That looks great thanks! I notice you went for a 1080ti, will this make a huge difference or will be saving some money and getting an 8GB 1080 suffice? Just wondering how big the improvement is from 1080 to 1080ti for my needs? It's around 20-30% better in performance. Link to comment https://linustechtips.com/topic/795457-small-business-system/#findComment-10014005 Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 19, 2017 16 minutes ago, Neil5000 said: That looks great thanks! I notice you went for a 1080ti, will this make a huge difference or will be saving some money and getting an 8GB 1080 suffice? Just wondering how big the improvement is from 1080 to 1080ti for my needs? 5 minutes ago, RaptorCandy said: It's around 20-30% better in performance. It's a bit faster, but unless you do a lot of GPU rendering, you don't really need it. Gaming PC NAS Laptop Workstation CPU: i5 12600KF 6P+4E Ryzen 7 3700X M4 SoC 4P+6E Xeon X5690 6c12t Cooler: Noctua NH-D15S Wraith Stealth w/NF-A9 Passive Apple CPU Cooler Motherboard: ASRock Z690 ITX/ax ASUS Pro B550M-C/CSM Apple J713AP Mac-F221BEC8 (Mac Pro 5,1) RAM: 2x16GB 3600Mhz DDR4 2x16GB 2400MHz DDR4 24GB Micron LPDDR5 4x8GB 1333MHz ECC DDR3 GPU: Sapphire Pulse Radeon 9060 XT 16GB Radeon WX2100 M4 SoC 10C Radeon RX 5700 Storage: 1TB MP34 + 2TB P41 500GB SSD + 2x4TB IronWolf Pro in ZFS Mirror Apple AP0512Z 1TB Crucial MX500 ODD: LG WH14NS40 None LG GP65NB60 USB DVD Writer Don't know PSU: EVGA 850W GM Silverstone SST-TX300 53.8Wh LiPo Battery Delta DPS-980BB Case: Silverstone Sugo 14 Dell Inspiron 530S Mac16,12 chassis (13" MBA) 2009-2012 Mac Pro "Cheese Grater" OS: Gentoo Linux TrueNAS Scale macOS 26 Tahoe Fedora Linux Display: LG 27UK650-W (4K 60Hz IPS panel) Mouse: EVGA X17 Keyboard: Corsair K55 RGB Mobile/Work Devices: 14" M5P MacBook Pro (work) - iPhone 17 Pro - Apple Watch S11 Other Misc Devices: iPod Video (Gen 5.5E, iFlash Solo w/128GB SD Card, Rockbox), Nintendo Switch Vehicles: 2002 Ford F150, 2003 Harley-Davidson Sportster 1200, 2022 Kawasaki KLR650, 1994 DR350SE Link to comment https://linustechtips.com/topic/795457-small-business-system/#findComment-10014023 Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 19, 2017 1 minute ago, Zando Bob said: It's a bit faster, but unless you do a lot of GPU rendering, you don't really need it. ^ True, but it does help with live/active renders. Magical Pineapples
