Cad $1,800 gaming and video rendering build

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earljustin

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Good Day Everyone,

I would like to help my friend to build his computer that are good for Gaming and software application such as ( vray, 3ds max .sketch up ,cadd xaka photo shop .revit gnun)

Can anyone provide me some good components around 1800 canadian please.

Anyway my friend has nothing. He's only using all-in-one apple thing.

Thank you

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The one thing I would zero in on then, is the GPU 'recommendations' for some of the software. Some of them will perform significantly better on workstation GPUs rather than consumer/gaming GPUs, or lean towards Nvidia CUDA for example.

Depending on which ones are used most and the performance you're looking for out of those programs, it may be worth it to consider dual GPUs (depending on what you're doing). This isn't an idea solution, but I have seen it work before (when a gaming build and workstation have to be together with specialized hardware requirements). There certainly are some tricks to setting it up, but it is also less expensive than building two computers when you want good performance for vastly different purposes.

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basroil

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Video rendering as in making movies or making youtube videos of gaming?

The former and latter will be VERY different builds.

For a gaming rig, consider these:

i5 6600
z170 motherboard with the features you need (performance is about the same)
air or water cooling depending on if you plan on moving the case or not.
256gb Samsung 850EVO
2TB WD or HGST 7200rpm HDD
Nvidia 980 (or AMD's 390x)
16gb DDR4 2400MHz ram
650W PSU from seasonic, fsp, corsair, evga, etc
ATX case (fractal design, corsair, lian li, silverstone, etc)

For video editing:
i7 5830
X99 motherboard with features you want
quadro 620 video card
256gb samsung 850 EVO
hardware raid card (if possible)
3x 2TB 7200rpm disks in raid 5 (or 4 in 5/6)
650W power supply as above
full sized tower
 
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Geekwad

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With gaming and rendering both on the plate, I would look to the x99 platform. Build it around either the 5820k or 5930k, depending on the rest of the components that are needed (monitor size, etc). Depending on how often, and what size, files will be routinely shuffled around, I would strongly consider populating the m.2 slot with the upcoming Samsung 950pro (the 951 m.2 is a great drive to work on, but wouldn't recommend that one specifically).
 
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basroil

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Even worse. Use the gaming rig setup, but swap out the graphics card to a quadro 620+

Basically, CAD and gaming don't mix, you need a pro-card for decent CAD performance, but those same cards have pretty bad gaming performance!

Considered just getting a CAD machine and then an xbox?
 
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The one thing I would zero in on then, is the GPU 'recommendations' for some of the software. Some of them will perform significantly better on workstation GPUs rather than consumer/gaming GPUs, or lean towards Nvidia CUDA for example.

Depending on which ones are used most and the performance you're looking for out of those programs, it may be worth it to consider dual GPUs (depending on what you're doing). This isn't an idea solution, but I have seen it work before (when a gaming build and workstation have to be together with specialized hardware requirements). There certainly are some tricks to setting it up, but it is also less expensive than building two computers when you want good performance for vastly different purposes.

 
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