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Hi, I am building an entry level pc for productivity with option for future upgradeability in 3-4 years. Main tasks will be:
Basic game development in Unreal Engine 4, Animation in Maya, Rendering with Blender and Maya, Basic Premiere Pro and After effect projects. Case must have good airflow. Budged is 1200 EUR (I will buy everything from Amazon.it).
 
Here is the part lists I came up with:

CPU: Ryzen 1700 217,15 EUR
COOLER: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO  31,21 EUR
MOBO: Asus Prime B350_PLUS  89,99 EUR
RAM: 2x8GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 MHz 171,93 EUR
GPU: Zotac GTX 1060 AMP! 6GB 323,38 EUR
CASE: SilverStone SST-RL06  80,80 EUR
PSU: EVGA 750 BQ 170W Bronze  89,99 EUR
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 2TB  60,30 EUR
SSD: Samsung 860 EVO 500GB 105,75 EUR

TOTAL: 1170.5 EUR

I am looking for your your suggestions and comments. I haven't build a pc in a while and some help would be welcome! =)

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I would swap the RAM for a 3000/3200mhz kit and swap the mobo for the ASrock PRO4 B350 mobo.

 

If you wanna save a buck swap the SSD for a Crucial mx500 500GB

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Looks good, but if you dont plan on overclocking, the cooler included with the cpu is plenty good enough, keeps the cpu under 70c under load and is quiet. Use the 30 € for a faster ram, preferably 3200mhz.

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10 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

I would swap the RAM for a 3000/3200mhz kit and swap the mobo for the ASrock PRO4 B350 mobo.

 

If you wanna save a buck swap the SSD for a Crucial mx500 500GB

atm the crucial costs a few bucks more than the samsung on amazon.it
Why the asrock motherboard instead of the asus model?
 

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9 minutes ago, Some Random Member said:

Looks good, but if you dont plan on overclocking, the cooler included with the cpu is plenty good enough, keeps the cpu under 70c under load and is quiet. Use the 30 € for a faster ram, preferably 3200mhz.

You are not the first one to tell me this, I think I will go with stock cooler and run some rendering benchmark and see if that can handle extended rendering times. If not I will go with an aftermarket model. Thank you for the nice advice!

Do you think overckloking on a 1700 with B350 Mobo is fine and recommended?

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10 minutes ago, pentotark said:

atm the crucial costs a few bucks more than the samsung on amazon.it
Why the asrock motherboard instead of the asus model?
 

The ASrock board is a better board. The asus prime one isnt that great. Ive got the prime board myself and it is a terrible overclocker

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2 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

The ASrock board is a better board. The asus prime one isnt that great. Ive got the prime board myself and it is a terrible overclocker

Oh I see, thanks for your feedback! =)

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PCPartPicker part list: https://it.pcpartpicker.com/list/ZgN7w6
Price breakdown by merchant: https://it.pcpartpicker.com/list/ZgN7w6/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 1700 3GHz 8-Core Processor  (€217.15 @ Amazon Italia) 
CPU Cooler: Scythe - Mugen 5 Rev. B 51.2 CFM CPU Cooler  (€51.61 @ Amazon Italia) 
Motherboard: Asus - STRIX B350-F GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard  (€118.66 @ Amazon Italia) 
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  (€141.80 @ Amazon Italia) 
Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (€105.75 @ Amazon Italia) 
Storage: Toshiba - P300 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€73.98 @ Amazon Italia) 
Video Card: Palit - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB Dual Video Card  (€294.89 @ Amazon Italia) 
Power Supply: Cooler Master - MasterWatt 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (€62.00 @ Amazon Italia) 
Other: SilverStone Technology CS-RL06WS-PRO ATX Tower Case with 3 120mm intake White LED Fans 
Total: €1065.84
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-06-25 12:57 CEST+0200

 

Surprisingly cheap coolers like the hyper 212 arent that cheap compared to the big boys when their cooling performance (hence noise levels) are considered. That's why the big Mugen 5B came here.

 

Asus B350-F to (hopefully) handle power hungry CPUs coming to AM4. Ryzen 7 2700x (8 core) for example, is a whole 25% more power hungry than 1700 when both are overclocked to their max (4.2GHz for 2700x, 4GHz for 1700). who knows if future CPUs will be even more power hungry? I wanted to use the Crosshair 6 at first, but I ran out of budget...

 

Cheaper 16GB 3200 memory

 

3TB HDD because it cost a little extra only

 

Cheapest 1060 6gb I can find

 

You dont need 750w PSU. This build wont use more than 350w when GPU and CPU are both heavily overclocked. Not even the 16 core Threadripper 1950x will push the total system power draw past 550w (which I'm sure you can't afford).

 

I picked the white variant of the RL06 with fans and plastic side window, though Amazon has other options as well.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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1 hour ago, Jurrunio said:

PCPartPicker part list: https://it.pcpartpicker.com/list/ZgN7w6
Price breakdown by merchant: https://it.pcpartpicker.com/list/ZgN7w6/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 1700 3GHz 8-Core Processor  (€217.15 @ Amazon Italia) 
CPU Cooler: Scythe - Mugen 5 Rev. B 51.2 CFM CPU Cooler  (€51.61 @ Amazon Italia) 
Motherboard: Asus - STRIX B350-F GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard  (€118.66 @ Amazon Italia) 
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  (€141.80 @ Amazon Italia) 
Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (€105.75 @ Amazon Italia) 
Storage: Toshiba - P300 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€73.98 @ Amazon Italia) 
Video Card: Palit - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB Dual Video Card  (€294.89 @ Amazon Italia) 
Power Supply: Cooler Master - MasterWatt 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (€62.00 @ Amazon Italia) 
Other: SilverStone Technology CS-RL06WS-PRO ATX Tower Case with 3 120mm intake White LED Fans 
Total: €1065.84
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-06-25 12:57 CEST+0200

 

Surprisingly cheap coolers like the hyper 212 arent that cheap compared to the big boys when their cooling performance (hence noise levels) are considered. That's why the big Mugen 5B came here.

 

Asus B350-F to (hopefully) handle power hungry CPUs coming to AM4. Ryzen 7 2700x (8 core) for example, is a whole 25% more power hungry than 1700 when both are overclocked to their max (4.2GHz for 2700x, 4GHz for 1700). who knows if future CPUs will be even more power hungry? I wanted to use the Crosshair 6 at first, but I ran out of budget...

 

Cheaper 16GB 3200 memory

 

3TB HDD because it cost a little extra only

 

Cheapest 1060 6gb I can find

 

You dont need 750w PSU. This build wont use more than 350w when GPU and CPU are both heavily overclocked. Not even the 16 core Threadripper 1950x will push the total system power draw past 550w (which I'm sure you can't afford).

 

I picked the white variant of the RL06 with fans and plastic side window, though Amazon has other options as well.

Thank you for your suggestions, I think there is some really interesting points I will surely follow!

Follow my retro IBM Sleeper PC Build!

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3 hours ago, pentotark said:

You are not the first one to tell me this, I think I will go with stock cooler and run some rendering benchmark and see if that can handle extended rendering times. If not I will go with an aftermarket model. Thank you for the nice advice!

Do you think overckloking on a 1700 with B350 Mobo is fine and recommended?

Yes i have rendered for long times with the stock cooler, and at stock clocks 70c is max temp.

If you want to run over 3.7ghz then you have to buy an aftermarket cooler, but up to 3.6ghz you can comfortably overclock with stock cooler.

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I'd suggest a more powerful cpu.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 2700 3.2GHz 8-Core Processor  (€294.50 @ Amazon Italia) 
Motherboard: ASRock - Fatal1ty X470 Gaming K4 ATX AM4 Motherboard  (€186.00 @ Amazon Italia) 
Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory  (€147.20 @ Amazon Italia) 
Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (€105.60 @ Amazon Italia) 
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (€71.89 @ Alternate Italia) 
Video Card: Palit - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB Dual Video Card  (€294.89 @ Amazon Italia) 
Case: Fractal Design - Focus G (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  (€52.00 @ Amazon Italia) 
PSU: Corsair CP-9020120-EU Alimentation Series CX450, 450W, 80 Plus Bronze  (€57.21 @ Amazon Italia) 
Total: €1209.29
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-06-25 17:21 CEST+0200

80+ ratings certify electrical efficiency. Not quality.

 

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