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Hey guys, I am throwing together possible parts for a friend for her first gaming/rendering rig. She will be doing some gaming. mainly games like Overwatch, GW2, BF4 and Secondlife. On the rendering side she would be using Blender and Maya and possibly some other Adobe CC applications. I am trying to keep as low as possible while remaining under $1,000. I threw in an Nvidia card for CUDA cores for the Pro Tools but if anyone has a less expensive/better value idea for an AMD GPU let me know! Thanks in advance.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/`

Thanks in advance!
 
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My recommendations, save money by not getting the hyper212. The 1600 comes with a wraith cooler. upgrade the 850 evo to a 960 evo. Also keep in mind that if you are looking to play blu-rays on your system you will have to purchase blu-ray playing software such as powerdvd.

Everything else looks good.
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My recommendations, save money by not getting the hyper212. The 1600 comes with a wraith cooler. upgrade the 850 evo to a 960 evo. Also keep in mind that if you are looking to play blu-rays on your system you will have to purchase blu-ray playing software such as powerdvd.

Everything else looks good.
 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor ($197.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard ($61.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($124.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital - Blue 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($89.88 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($46.88 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB SSC GAMING Video Card ($279.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($55.24 @ Amazon)
Optical Drive: LG - WH16NS40 Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer ($58.88 @ OutletPC)
Total: $915.72
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-08-05 13:29 EDT-0400
 
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Might I recommend a second 1TB WD drive to setup a raid 0 array for improved responsiveness and speed for HD video within the CC applications. It is a fairly small increase in overall cost and a significant speed improvement. Adobe also recommends at least a raid stripe when working with HD video.
 
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Not something I would recommend. While you will see some performance increase when reading and writing to this drive, you will also have double the failure rate. If just one drive dies, you lose all of your saved data. A Raid 1 setup will mirror the drives, minimizing the risk of losing critical data, however one drive is fine and just have a back up of your data on an external or in the cloud.
 
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Was based on recommendations and experience with adobe premiere and after effects, works significantly smoother with a raid, but if they are using it for storage they should still get another drive and run a mirror raid instead at least, I don't like single drive setups.
 
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