The very final and last things to consider in build! Professional animation in UE4. Help on tower, cooler and electric supply

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Jakob Kudsk

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Sorry for double posting (I am new to this forum, but man, the feedback in here in details is so insanely nice!)

Mainly what power supply, cooler and tower should I get?

About the setup: I need 2x ssd for loading and rendering.

I have plenty of TB for storage on externals, and I will also be using swarm in UE4 to render via an i7 on my old laptop while I keep working in UE4- and use the processor in this build to have fast instant rendering times.

Please give feedback on what tower to build and a cooler that is solid for the processor, and possible to mount/dismount as I need this computer to travel by plane every 3 months or so. I do not mind assembling/disassembling for the purpose, as long as I let the CPU stay to the motherboard with the ram and GPU.

I got feedback before on different coolers, towers and so forth but no clear answer. I am afraid to buy the wrong cooler for the wrong tower with the wrong ram (read about space issues?)

My budget is 1500, but willing to go 1650/1700 if necessary since it is for my income/work/life.

Tower? If possible, I prefer a mid tower because as mentioned, need to transport this setup every now and then. Will this one do it? - Case: Fractal Design Arc Midi R2 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($79.99 @ NCIX US)

Processor: i7 5820, overclocked to.. ? I dont even know how, but I can find a link/website with a guide of how to overclock it? I did this back with my intel 288 ghz ten years ago. Just dont remember how to anymore.

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 G1 Gaming Video/Graphics Cards GV-N1070G1 GAMING-8GD by
$429.00

Corsair Hydro Series H110i GTX Cooling by Corsair (someone suggested some other coolers like R1, but then wrote about space issues?) I have no idea what to buy in terms of motherboard-ram-cooling-cabinet relationships. If you have knowledge please share with specific examples, because I am at loss.
$119.9

ASUS X99-A/USB 3.1 ATX DDR4 3300 (o.c.) Intel LGA 2011 Motherboards by Asus
$216.14 - this motherboard seems the best for the price.

2x ADATA Premier SP550 480 GB 2.5 Inch SATA III Superior Read & Write up to 560MB/s & 510MB/s Solid State Drive (ASP550SS3-480GM-C) - 220 USD total

Ram: G.SKILL Aegis 32GB (4 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2400 (PC4 19200) Intel Z170 Platform / Intel X99 Platform Desktop Memory ... 119 USD.

EVGA SuperNOVA 220-P2-0650-X1 650W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS PLATINUM Certified

Do I need a dvd for installing windows? Or can it be done via. usb today? I never use DVD for a nything.

 
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Mr Kagouris
Yeah, tower is fine.

The absolute best would be what you want if you wish to overclock the CPU. If you don't want to overclock the CPU, a Cryorig H7 would be fine.

Every brand in general is both a good and bad brand for SSDs. For example the aforementioned OCZ Trion 150 is a good SSD, the Trion 100 not so much. When you're doing rendering work the storage can become a bottleneck quite fast, and often a single SATA SSD won't cut it. You could set them up in RAID 0 but keep in mind that sudden power outages can f**k up RAID configurations.

Alternatively, if you'll be backing everything up to other storage anyway (using the SSD space as a "scratch disk") you can instead invest in a much faster and more reliable solution; the Samsung 950...
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Power supply is solid, for the cooler if you want the absolute best go for an EK Predator 240mm. It will perform much better than any CLC AIO.

CPU overclocking is very straightforward now by the way.

Also, those SSDs aren't very good. They're unreliable and won't give you the advertised speeds. Go for either OCZ Trion 150s or Samsung 850 Evos (or even the much better 850 Pros).
 
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Thanks!

What about the tower? Will it do? Cooler: I dont know if I want the absolute best. I want to most affordable that can run the processor, that is all really.

Unreliable SSD is not good since I work with professional animation and use thousands of individual frames compiled in After Effects. But I dont want to pay alot either, since I have plenty of backup. So OCZ in general is a good brand? The speed is fine whatever SSD, I think, because it just cannot be slower than my render times. That being said, each individual frame is between 25-50mb, 60 frames a sec, 25 min video, ends with a lot of rendering and data.


 
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Yeah, tower is fine.

The absolute best would be what you want if you wish to overclock the CPU. If you don't want to overclock the CPU, a Cryorig H7 would be fine.

Every brand in general is both a good and bad brand for SSDs. For example the aforementioned OCZ Trion 150 is a good SSD, the Trion 100 not so much. When you're doing rendering work the storage can become a bottleneck quite fast, and often a single SATA SSD won't cut it. You could set them up in RAID 0 but keep in mind that sudden power outages can f**k up RAID configurations.

Alternatively, if you'll be backing everything up to other storage anyway (using the SSD space as a "scratch disk") you can instead invest in a much faster and more reliable solution; the Samsung 950 Pro (either 256GB or 512GB version). It has sequential reads and writes about 4 times those of a regular SSD, and is also very reliable as it uses MLC NAND (rather than the TLC cheap 2.5" drives use).
 
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Jakob Kudsk

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I basically bought all components, except the ram and cooler. What do you think would be best, for overcloking, around 100 USD ? The type doest not matter to me.

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The complexity of mountaing and dismounting. When I ravel with the work station every 3 months, I will dismount the cooler regardless of what brand to avoid mg. to the motherboard and CPU.

Suggestions?
 
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