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Chaz5555

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hiya, thought id made a thread but cant seem to find it anywhere. Ive come together with the following list that should all be good, i need someone to suggest a different motherboard i think for same price. this rig is for general use and to run a drawing program called rhino or rhinocceros. if anyone can spot anything out then that will help a lot! cheeers!

AMD FX8350 Black Edition 8 Core

Thermaltake Versa G2 Midi Mesh Gaming Case USB3

ASUS® M5A97 LE R2.0

8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X FURY DUAL-DDR3 x 2

2GB AMD RADEON™ R9 270

Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium

Kingston Technology 120GB Solid State Drive 2.5-inch V300

WD 1TB 3.5 inch Internal Hard Drive

EVGA 500B 500W 80+

Samsung SH-224FB/RSMS 24X Internal DVD Writer with SATA
 
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psu's too weak - check out the xfx 550W it can actually handle its listed load well.
pick up the fx 8320 instead of the 8350 - it should save about $5 or so.
actually that motherboard is normally considered one of the best for AMD.

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psu's too weak - check out the xfx 550W it can actually handle its listed load well.
pick up the fx 8320 instead of the 8350 - it should save about $5 or so.
actually that motherboard is normally considered one of the best for AMD.
 
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Get the 8320 over the 8350, its the same chip that you can OC to match.
Motherboard is weak, it lacks VRM heatsinkins on it, here is an example of a better board: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128651
Make sure the ram is CAS9 ram, some kingston is CAS10/11
Kingston makes fairly basic SSDs, look into a samsung model.
The PSU is fine, the B1 series isnt bad by any means, but I do prefer XFX or the B2, G2, or GS series.

Those are the changes I would make without changing the build itself.
 

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Both the earlier answers are correct about choosing the 8320 over the 8350. However, on the Mobo, if you get the M5A97 R2.0 instead of the LE version, you'll both save money and get a slightly better ASUS board. As for the SSD...take a look at the Samsung 850 EVO (maybe even upgrade that to the 250 GB one instead of 120/128 GB). The PSU should work fine. Good luck and have fun with your build.
 

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I've used that PSU for a couple of builds, it's got more cables than most in it's price range and it's more than enough wattage for your build. I don't know if Rhino is CUDA or Open CL based, but I know Zbrush and Photoshop are Open CL based, not sure about Cinema 4D or 3D's Max either. Just make sure you get Nividia for CUDA and AMD for Open CL. The only real benefit to the AMD 990FX chipset is Crossfire/SLI so get scammed into buying it, (in addition heat-sinks won't actually net you anymore performance, they'll just keep the VRM's cool.) That motherboard should be enough, unless there's something specific you want. Hope this helped, good luck!

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You might as well spend 10$ more on the Samsung 850 EVO, I'd also see if you can spend a bit more on the GPU, maybe a r9 380 or GTX 960 if your budget allows it.That should improve rendering times more than a better CPU I would imagine. Personal question do you know how many cores Rhino can utilize? I hope
i'm not being useless, and just spouting things you probably already know, regardless, good luck! :)
 

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thanks for all the suggestions, i don't actually know much about rhino because i'm building the rig for a friend, not sure if it uses CUDA or Open CL. Budget is £600 including delivery of parts (hopefully a trial of amazon price should help that).