[SOLVED] Trying to lower cost of build for this workstation

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Hey, guys.

I usually carry on a Lenovo Legion Y520 laptop to college which is running on i5-7300HQ, 16GB RAM, GeForce GTX 1050Ti 2GB.
So I thought to have like a beast kinda workstation at home where I could do more? What I plan was to use my laptop for modelling while the workstation PC is strictly for rendering stuff? But it would be great too if it's able to do some modeling on the PC as well.

I don't plan to overclocking too much as well?

Software that I usually use:
Unity
Maya
ZBrush
3DS Max
Most of the Adobe CC softwares


Was looking to lower the cost down to around $950? Which one I could sacrifice? I'm open to other ideas as well. Please advice if there is a better option for me.

Thanks!

PCPartPicker part list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/fxfvkd
Price breakdown by merchant: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/fxfvkd/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7 GHz 8-Core Processor ($289.89 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock - B450 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z RGB 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($129.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Samsung - 960 EVO 500 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($135.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate - Constellation ES.3 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($44.45 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Zotac - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB Mini Video Card ($292.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: NZXT - H500 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case ($64.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: Corsair - TXM Gold 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($101.63 @ OutletPC)
Total: $1119.82
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-12-15 03:33 EST-0500
 
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Darkbreeze
This gets you pretty close, and doesn't sacrifice anything. In fact, there are some improvements here.

There is no need for an 850w PSU unless you are planning to run dual cards, and there is not a lot of support for that anyhow these days. Even at 750w you are about 300w over what you could actually, easily, run that card on. Plus, this is a better unit anyhow.

The 960 EVO is a couple of years old, and not nearly as fast as the 970 EVO.

Trident Z memory is nice, but unless you go with the much more expensive CL14 models, you don't really gain anything over some of the Ripjaws, and in fact some of the Ripjaws are as good or better than the Trident Z.

Also, you really don't want a mini graphics card unless you absolutely have to run...
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This gets you pretty close, and doesn't sacrifice anything. In fact, there are some improvements here.

There is no need for an 850w PSU unless you are planning to run dual cards, and there is not a lot of support for that anyhow these days. Even at 750w you are about 300w over what you could actually, easily, run that card on. Plus, this is a better unit anyhow.

The 960 EVO is a couple of years old, and not nearly as fast as the 970 EVO.

Trident Z memory is nice, but unless you go with the much more expensive CL14 models, you don't really gain anything over some of the Ripjaws, and in fact some of the Ripjaws are as good or better than the Trident Z.

Also, you really don't want a mini graphics card unless you absolutely have to run one due to restrictions on the physical size. Performance is practically always cut down from full size card models due to cooling constraints.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7 GHz 8-Core Processor ($289.89 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock - B450 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard ($74.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($109.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung - 970 Evo 500 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($119.99 @ B&H)
Storage: Seagate - Constellation ES.3 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($44.45 @ Amazon)
Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB 6GT OC Video Card ($254.99 @ Newegg Business)
Case: NZXT - H500 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case ($64.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($79.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $1039.28
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-12-15 04:10 EST-0500
 
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