Hi,
I’m looking for some advice on pc builds for a game designer who is working on open world style unity games and another for a back end programmer. Any advice you be very much appreciated. Could you also suggest a good monitor for an asset designer.
I have listed a bit of info for you below.
Thanks.
Zee
Budget. Would prefer to keep it at max £2500.
live in the U.K. and use the pound.
Is there a retailer you prefer? No
Do you need or already have peripherals? No but peripherals and monitors have their own budget.
I need help with 2 computers one will be used by a game designer using unity and the other is a back end programmer.
Do you overclock or want to get into overclocking? As these will be work pc’s in a. Office I’m not sure if I should advice on this would be handy.
Do you plan on going for custom water-cooling now, or in the future? No but I’m intending to get an AIO for the cpu.
Operating System. I will be using Windows and would need to get the key.
2500 without a monitor will get you a solid x570/3950/64G/3080 build…
As for monitors, things are tough, because you’ll want one 4k + something high framerate for regular developers. Ask the asset person what they want/need… they might be ok with a pd3220u + color munki to use with displaycal, or they might be used to upper class photography monitors.
Your backend dev might appreciate a 3070 and 128G of ram instead.
Yes, it definitely would be sufficient for that. But for the company needs, that is way, waaay more than necessary, and I also think the budget is £2500 combined.
I’m thinking here is best to avoid your gamer instincts, and think more for the whole. I would go for something like this:
Recommending a 5600 XT to again give more test options to the game developer, graphics are otherwise not that important, could go with a 5500 XT or 580 instead
Sorry I should have been more clear the budget is per pc but I have been told the back end developer pc can be significantly less powerful. Also these won’t be built till around Christmas. This will give me some time to see the rtx 3000 stability stuff and also waiting to see the new rdna2 stuff.
In that case I’d probably swap the RTX 3080 for a 5700 XT on the Intel system, and have a look at the Threadripper platform (24c+) with a 3080 on there. This gives around £1500 + £3500 budget to work on for backend/game development. You will still need both an intel CPU and an AMD GPU for testing out the games on though.
And yes, do look at AMDs RDNA2 and Ryzen 4xxx offerings before locking anything in. Black Friday might save you a few hundred quids, as well.
I am part owner of the start up but I’m the one that knows anything about building pc’s I can repair them that’s not a problem. I would love to go threadripper and spend £3500 on one of them but £2500 is more like a hard limit per pc that my partners want to spend.
your backend developer doesn’t need too much horsepower, I tell you that…
if you could get him a thinkpad or a latitude with some i7 and 16 gigs and some 1 TB ssd they’d be set… the real processing power will need to be on your servers
the game designer tho, he gon need some really serious firepower