PC Build - £1000 budget, Architecture Student

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Hi there! Sorry If I am posting in the wrong forum. I am a fifth year architecture student in Oxford who is in dire need of a new PC (my laptop is 7 years old and doesn't even have a standalone graphics card)

Unfortunately I have a slightly tight budget - I work primarily with Vectorworks, Revit, Sketchup, Vray, 3DS Max, Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere, After Effects and Premiere Pro. However, ideally the machine will be used for VR within Unreal Engine during this year so it would be highly beneficial if it could manage that. I would also benefit from a 2TB hard-drive as I tend to rack-up a lot of files rather quickly! And all this, for hopefully less than £1000 including a monitor, is that even possible?

I've attached a list from pcpartpicker of what I think a suitable build might be, but I am a complete novice so truthfully, I don't have a clue. Therefore, I'd really appreciate any advice that can be given.


Component Selection Price
CPU

AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor
£147.60 Buy
Motherboard

Gigabyte - GA-AB350-GAMING 3 ATX AM4 Motherboard
£80.40 Buy
Memory

Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory
£134.99 Buy
Storage

SanDisk - SSD PLUS 480GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
£66.54 Buy

Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
£50.34 Buy
Video Card

EVGA - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB SC GAMING Video Card
£235.46 Buy
Case

Phanteks - Eclipse P300 Tempered Glass (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case
£49.97 Buy
Power Supply

Corsair - TXM Gold 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply
£74.99 Buy
Monitor

Dell - SE2717H 27.0" 1920x1080 75Hz Monitor
£180.99 Buy

Total: £1021.28

Matt




 
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Hey there, nice to meet a fellow architect ;)

Your build looks fine except for the possible issue with the motherboard being on a prior BIOS revision and preventing you from going to Ryzen 2. Lemme see if I can/we can build you a better system.

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor (£147.60 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock - B450M PRO4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (£71.98 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£74.56 @ More Computers)
Storage: ADATA - Ultimate SU800 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£47.74 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Hitachi - Ultrastar 7K3000 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£48.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8GB Titanium Video Card (£417.30 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Fractal Design - Define Mini C TG MicroATX Mid Tower Case (£59.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Platinum 650W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£105.46 @ Amazon UK)
Monitor: HP - 27 27.0" 1920x1080 60Hz Monitor (£237.93 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £1211.55
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-10-13 12:43 BST+0100

I'd probably change the monitor and drop down the quality of the PSU in order to come to a more 1000'ish quid build.
 
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Hey there! Thank you for this! I notice that you've dropped the RAM down from 3000MhZ to 2400Mhz and 8GB rather than 16, whilst upgrading the graphics card from a 1060 to a 1070Ti. Can I ask what the justification for this is? I have a very little understanding of pc components and their functionality with the software I use.

Thanks!

Matt


 
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Yeah technically it was a mistake which I caught sight of it now. In retrospect, the G.Skill ram kits of 2133MHz/2400MHz are all able to go to higher then advertised. You can try and get to DDR4-2933MHz or DDR4-3200MHz. Yeah I personally built an itx system for my student with 32GB's of DDR4-3200MHz ram out of the box since rendering does take a chunk of your memory notwithstanding the amount of CPU cores and the speed of each core.

If you're not interested in overclocking/tinkering with the ram's then it's a good idea to get a ram kit that is advertised to go a particular frequency via the X.M.P option in BIOS. Often times it hit or miss and could require you to manually input the frequency, timings and voltage in BIOS.

This is what your build finally comes down to with 32GB's of ram spec'd to run at DDR4-3200MHz:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor (£147.60 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock - B450M PRO4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (£71.98 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LED 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (£253.13 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: ADATA - Ultimate SU800 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£47.74 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Hitachi - Ultrastar 7K3000 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£48.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8GB Titanium Video Card (£417.30 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Fractal Design - Define Mini C TG MicroATX Mid Tower Case (£59.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: SeaSonic - FOCUS Plus Platinum 650W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£105.46 @ Amazon UK)
Monitor: HP - 27 27.0" 1920x1080 60Hz Monitor (£237.93 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £1390.12
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-10-13 22:33 BST+0100

If you had a more healthier budget, I'd have put down a Radeon Pro WX or an Nvidia Quadro card in the build, but I'm guessing you're going to be gaming on the setup as well...? You will need to cross reference the app's you'd like to run with supported GPU's. I know Nvidia cards have better out of the box support for Adobe's Creative Suite of app's.
 
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