hey I was recommended to this forum by a friend, he said yous are a bunch of nice people who like to help so i thought I would ask here.
I just sold my system for £1500 so i would like to invest this into a new PC and build it myself and i was hoping that yous could recommend me some stuff as i have never built a pc before.
I will be using it for video game creation so software like, any 3d modelling or sculpting packages, photoshop, unreal engine 4 and stuff like word etc. I would probably play games on it as well.
even though i havnt built a pc before i am en extremely fast learner so im not worried about it being hard or anything.
I was thinking about an ASUS X99 motherboard and i7 processor but not sure which one to get really.
any help and recommendations would be great, also i live in the uk if anyone needs to know that and i can go over the £1500 a bit.
Also worth noting i would need a keyboard and monitors as well.
For someone who's just now getting into building, I would completely recommend PC Part Picker. It lays everything out pretty well, and will make sure that everything is compatible most of the time and that you aren't missing anything.
You're about on the mark as to the minimum of what you can put into a decent X99 system with an i7. Any time you're building a system, I would personally start with a motherboard, then work from there. I put together a little bit of a mach system here as a demonstration. You don't have to use any of it if you don't want to, however I went mostly baseline on most of the components and still was about £100 over. Which you could probably save based on where you actually end up ordering everything from.
Another great tool to use when building is the Passmark benchmark database, as they have benchmarks on everything from RAM, CPUs, GPUs, and HDDs/SSDs. It will basically lay out the performance of one part against another in numbers.
Good luck on your build, if you have any other questions be sure to ask.
so im going for this, i do plan to upgrade in the future, so i think this is all pretty good. anyone else think its pretty good? http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/94sk7P
Id personally go for 2x8GB of ram, this leaves you room to upgrade to 4x8GB, which I can see you needing for any rendering/compiling you might do depending on your requirements. (its cheaper too)
screw it i went for the uglier ones, was thinking and i will probably upgrade once new RAM comes out anyway so i might as well go for the cheaper option.