Designer PC

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Hi everyone, I’m building a computer for a friend who is a designer and I would like your help because I don’t have a huge experience with designer’s builds.

Budget: around 850 euro
Country: Greece
Peripherals: She won’t be needing any peripherals
Usage: Rendering, she renders both movies and pictures
Applications: Photoshop, Blender, Illustrator, After effects, Premier, Figma, Rhino
Operating system: Windows but she already has a license
PcPartPicker: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/6Rdh8Y

Note 1: She is pulling a 1tb hdd from her existing computer

Note 2: Usually the prices in Greece are the same amount as in the us but with euro instead of dollars. For example if something costs 120$ in Greece you will usually find it for 120€ (it might be 10€ higher or 10€ lower but it’s around the same price)

Thank you for your help and your time : )

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You only have one small SSD in there. How is storage solved?

To reduce noise, you could get a larger air cooler and a case that allowes more air flow.

minor changes https://pcpartpicker.com/list/LRcDFt

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You could probably push the price down a bit by going for a standard S-ATA SSD unless a she really needs the speed of a M.2 drive.
I also see that there are 500GB samsung SSD’s for the same price as the one in the link.

I’m also not sure if i’d really buy a CPU now in case that the Ryzen 3xxx leaks are true.

I just noticed that you were planning on running a stock cooler, which could become a bottleneck during demanding rendering tasks, but MazeFrame seems to have “fixed” that for you already.

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I would get a 1 terabyte drive for her since she is doing video 250 gb is a bit tight when it comes to doing video projects.

also if you can get away from nvidia you could save a bit more by going with an rx580 and that would leave you money for a good cooler.

the case adds an extra 75 dollars to the build and makes it a bit smaller if that matters,

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Tz2sgw

choice of 1 terabyte drives

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/compare/J9Brxr,hTzkcf,9nhKHx/

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Oh sorry forgot to add that she is getting an 1tb hard drive from her existing computer, I’ve update the description to include it.

Thanks for the recommendations everyone : )

The air-cooler sounds like a good idea : ) I’ll include one for sure

@WheeledLlama I don’t think that she can wait for the new Ryzen 3xxx unfortunately because she needs the computer before the 3rd of January. Probably I’ll drop the M.2 for a S-ATA SSD with more storage.

@chaos4u Interesting approach : ) Most of the programs are more optimised for nvidia (as far as I know at least) so I don’t think that going with amd is a good idea, am I wrong? Also two questions:

  • Wouldn’t the smaller case increase the temperature of the build?
  • Wouldn’t the smaller cooler on the graphics card decrease the performance of the card?
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No your not wrong, unfortunately nvidia is still the ‘recomended’ card for those applications.

while the smaller case maybe warmer, i do not see the an issue with possible thermal problems with any of the hardware or the intended work load.

from what i have seen adobe premiere barely pushes a gtx1060 so i dont think heat will ever be an issue, unless im missing something.

only reason i even recommend a smaller case is sometimes people want a smaller case instead of the larger towers. but that may not be an issue and that nzxt is very beautiful.

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Depends on the specific case.
Saying “all small cases run hot” is objectivly wrong.

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For a 500,- ish system I would not go above 50,- for the case. I mean … it’s a box.

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You are probably right about premier, but rhino and blender will probably have an impact. This are the benchmarks that I found and made me choose gtx 1060 over the 1050 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=blender-1050-1080&num=2 .

I’ll probably go with a small motherboard, like your suggestion, to save a few bucks . Do you see any particular reason to going with X370 over B450 ?

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You are right, that was a bad generalisation from my part : )

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chose the 370 as i was trying to fit the 1tb ssd into the budget.
Also the 370 seemed to have more usb ports, ( just my experience but i always seem to need more usb ports.)
hopefully not needed but the 370 should allow for more tweaking to get most out of the cpu and memory.

the b450 should be a quick setup though and from what i have read should make better use of the precision boost feature.

the main thing really was just finding a good board with a decent amount of usb for around or under 80.00 so the 1tb ssd could be added with out blowing the budget.