Build Recommendation - Solid works/fusion 360, Adobe Suite & Gaming

It's up to you to decide basically. All 8c/16t Ryzen so far can be overclocked to ~3.8Ghz on most X370 boards and ~4Ghz when paired with top-tier MB with strong power delivery system; most consumer cooling solution can't get the chip to go beyond that barrier.

You can chose to equip the 1700 with an aftermarket cooler and OC your way there or buy the 1700x and be required to buy additional aftermarket cooler because the X version doesn't come with one. Since Ryzen is just released, some aftermarket coolers aren't yet AM4 compatible, so a 1700x config may either cost a lot more than the 1700 than you'd expect or you'd have to wait quite a bit/contact the cooler mfg to get the AM4 compatible kit.



Most games aren't that built to fully utilize the 16 threads of Ryzen and will respond better to pure clock speed. For this reason, a good number of games initially will cause Ryzen to perform just about on par with a higher clocked i5 (but obviously a 4c/4t i5 would do the professional workload horribly compare to Ryzen).

With some investment in OCing, a 3.8-4Ghz Ryzen can feed any GPU on the market.
But even as is, the 1700 will not bottleneck a GTX 1060.




A MB with the X370 chipset when paired with Ryzen CPU can support CFX as well as SLI. But for nVidia, SLI is only supported on GTX 1070 or higher. The B2 750W can support two GTX 1070 (~200W each average, with spikes into the ~250W vicinity) but two GTX 1080 will be a bit of a stretch (~240-270W avg depends on manufacturer, spikes add another 20-30% power draw). Current gen AMD : RX 480 ~180W each with spikes 30-40% increase, while their last gen Fury (which is still currently AMD top performing card until they release their next gen Vega cards) ~250W with spikes into the 300W+ range.

If you want a two cards configuration in the future, then a RX 480 8GB (4GB have better price-to-performance as a single card config; for CFX, you'd want the 8GB ver) like the MSI RX 480 ARMOR 8G OC will be the better pick compare to a GTX 1060.



The extra fan is a case fan, not a CPU cooler. It's there because the Phanteks ProM Acrylic comes with two 140mm fan, one for intake one for exhaust. The one additional 140mm would be mount at the front so that there would be two 140mm intake fans and resulting in what's known as "positive air pressure" inside the case, i.e. there would be an airflow going out of the case through all the other holes and crevices of the case so long that the system is running. This would greatly limit the amount of dust able to get into the PC, maintaining the effectiveness of the CPU/GPU fans which, in turn, mean a longer lasting PC.

Ryzen 1700 come with the AMD Wraith Spire cooler. The X versions don't come with an AMD cooler, at least for the current package which I'll admit that it may vary with regions/retailers.



This is the Kingston kit with the serial: HX424C15FBK2/16 that has been tested by ASUS, and verified that it worked both as a two DIMMs config (2x8GB) as well as in four DIMMs config (two 2x8GB kits).

There is a cheaper kit but with a different serial HX424C15FB2K2/16 which, at the time, has not been verified; which mean while it may be usable as a 2x8GB kit, it may not work in a 4x8GB config.

With Ryzen being very particular about memory, picking a non-QVL listed RAM is not recommended at this point.

CyberPunkX,

This is a somewhat difficult equation, given that the most demanding program listed, Solidworks, will run very poorly on a gaming video card, meaning a Quadro is a given, which will not be ideal for gaming. Also, SW rendering is CPU-based and is one of the few that can benefit from as many CPU cores as possible- a 6-core with a strong single-thread performance is the best compromise. But if rendering is not a priority, it's preferable to concentrate on a better single-thread performance.

In this budget, I'd say, start with the best single-thread performing CPU in the World:

2D / 3D CAD / Graphic Design Workstation_ALT: Gamer / Video Processing_ Intel Core i7 -7th Series Platform_C$_3.6.17

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($458.61 @ Vuugo)
CPU Cooler: SilenX EFZ-92HA3 48.0 CFM Fluid Dynamic Bearing CPU Cooler ($33.99 @ Amazon Canada)
Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-P ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($170.14 @ shopRBC)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($133.89 @ Amazon Canada)
Graphics Card: Quadro P2000 5GB -160 bit workstation card > To be released soon for about C$500
Drive 1: OS/Programs > Reused > $0
Drive 2: Storage > Reused > $0
Case: Thermaltake Suppressor F31 ATX Mid Tower Case ($104.99 @ Memory Express)
Power Supply: SeaSonic G 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($89.98 @ NCIX)
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Total: about $1,491.60

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-03-06 08:41 EST-0500

The i7-7700K 4-core @ 4.2 /4.5GHz has the highest single- thread rating of any 4-core CPU- 2596 in Passmark. If you visit the Solidwaorks forums, this is the CPU of the moment.

There is 16GB of RAM using two of the four slots so as to be able to add another 16GB later. I use two systems and last week the 32GB system ran out of RAM- it needed 38GB, so I had to redo the work on the 64GB system. Lucky that was handy,..

The Quadro P2000 5GB GPU should be avaiable very shortly and the performance is tested at levels above the Quadro M4000 8GB, which has a Passmark average 3D score of 6,665 and may be in the 7,000+ range. For comparison, the GTX 770 is rated at 6,113, so gaming on the P2000 should not be too painful.

For a workstation and gaming system alike, a quiet system is important, so the Thermaltake Surpressor series is a good approach.

Cheers,

BambiBoom

CAD / 3D Modeling / Graphic Design:

HP z420 (2015) (Rev 3) > Xeon E5-1660 v2 (6-core @ 3.7 / 4.0GHz) / 32GB DDR3 -1866 ECC RAM / Quadro K4200 (4GB) / Samsung SM951 M.2 256GB AHCI + Intel 730 480GB (9SSDSC2BP480G4R5) + Western Digital Black WD1003FZEX 1TB> M-Audio 192 sound card + Logitech z2300 2.1 speakers > 600W PSU> > Windows 7 Professional 64-bit >> 2X Dell Ultrasharp U2715H (2560 X 1440)
[ Passmark Rating = 5581 > CPU= 14046 / 2D= 838 / 3D= 4694 / Mem= 2777 / Disk= 11559] [6.12.16]
[Cinebench R15 > CPU = 1031cb / Single Core = 142 cb / OpenGL= 127.39 fps / MP Ratio = 7.24x] 3.2.17

Analysis / Simulation / Rendering:

HP z620 (2012) (Rev 3) 2X Xeon E5-2690 (8-core @ 2.9 / 3.8GHz) / 64GB DDR3-1600 ECC reg) / Quadro K2200 (4GB) + Tesla M2090 (6GB) / HP Z Turbo Drive (256GB) + Samsung 850 Evo 250GB + Seagate Constellation ES.3 (1TB) / Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium PCIe sound card + Logitech z313 2.1 speakers / 800W / Windows 7 Professional 64-bit > > HP 2711x (27" 1980 X 1080)
[ Passmark System Rating= 5675 / CPU= 22625 / 2D= 815 / 3D = 3580 / Mem = 2522 / Disk = 12640 ] 9.25.16
[ Cinebench R15: CPU = 2209 cb / Single core 130 cb / OpenGL= 119.23 fps / MP Ratio 16.84x] 10.31.16

Toms Editor, Igor Wallossek (FormatC), already verified that he can get an 1700 to 3.8Ghz even on a cheap Asus B350 board; he also noted that only on the much more expensive ASUS Crosshair VI were he able to get the CPU to go faster than 3.8Ghz as the power delivery system of the cheaper board (that he had available to him) couldn't handle the load.

So really, until AMD upgrade XFR capabilities (so far, this automatic overclock function has only manage to increases the CPU clock by a mere 100Mhz with most consumer cooling solution...), the 1700 just stomp an 1700x to the ground as the much better price-to-performance solution.

As for those watt number, I don't trust them. After all, you can look at Toms Ryzen 1800x review and see that the 1800x can draw up to 140W+.
Just like when Toms put an i5 7600k through the Intel Power Thermal Utilities, also reveal that the chip is capable of drawing 100W+ (unlike the locked and not overclockable variant which cap out at 71W).

Having look at some of the questions and answers surrounding getting a Quadro and a Geforce to work together, I'd say your best chance of getting it to work is though two Windows installation, one with the Quadro driver and the Geforce card disabled, and the other with the Geforce Game Ready driver and the Quadro disabled.

Scanning through the older gen cards however, I stumbled upon another possibility for you: a Sapphire NITRO R9 Fury 4GB for 366.95 CDN. It should performs very well in gaming (~GTX980Ti level, compare to GTX970 of RX480/GTX1060), and while not professional card level, its performance impact wouldn't be as harsh as a Geforce from a Quadro.

Uh, the XFX RX 480 doesn't have the monopoly on those; both MSI offerings has it too: the MSI Gaming X 8GB ($309.99 - $20 rebate+Free Shipping+ Free Doom @NCIX) and the Armor OC 8GB ($299.99 - $15 Rebate + $9.9Shipping+Free Doom @ Newegg CA).

The free Doom game is an AMD promotions so it comes with almost any RX480 card, I believe. While nVidia current free game offer (For Honor or Ghost Recon: Wild Land) is only for GTX1070 or higher.

As for memory, the current solution seems to be that RX480 Armor 8GB ($294.98) to save ~$50 and put that toward two 1x8GB DIMM HX426C15FB/8 ($84.99*2) which ASROCK QVL listed that it support dual-channel with four DIMMs.

As for the NZXT S340 + Noctua NH-D15 + ASROCK X370 Taichi combo... I'm worried that you're taking on a lot of unknowns at this point. The S340 only support CPU cooler of 161mm whle the D15 is 165mm with fan; which mean you'd need to adjust the fan clip to lower the fan position to have any chance of it fitting inside the case, but lowering the fan position could very well mean there's possibility now that there wouldn't be any room left for the closest DIMM slot.