My rig is having problems, and I urgently need a higher-end replacement PC like a 4090 with either a Ryzen 7800x3d or an Intel i9-13900k.
Does anyone have recommendations for pre-built systems? Higher-end components, dialed-in (stable) bios/memory settings, etc.
Maybe?
The price spread from builders is kind of crazy. A 13900k/RTX 4090 from BuildRedux, StarForge, and Puget is $3.7k, $4.3k, and $5.8k, respectively.
Falcon Northwest does gaming computers as well as workstations.
Falcon seems to be in the same price range as Puget.
I’ve always heard Puget was the absolute best. And I think LTT says nice things about StarForge (or maybe it’s just for the memes?). I need to figure out if that $1500 difference is worth it.
I’m just making suggestions here. Don’t really know your budget etc.
I second falcon northwest. I’ve bought systems from both puget and falcon, but falcon’s custom case and build was kinda next level in this SPR workstation. Can’t go wrong with either imho but the falcon system is smaller even than the fractal torrent and runs cooler somehow. in a 1kw system…
I have heard good things about Falcon.
Interesting. So the extra premium is worth it?
All of these seem expensive, but this is how I make a living. I never regret buying a nice tool.
I need single thread speed and GPU for CAD modeling. I need extra cores for stimulation, rendering, and video editing.
My biggest daily pain is all the 10-30 second delays between editing something and seeing it update with very complex models (which is single thread speed).
its cheaper than HP’s street price for the same workstation. You can DIY it cheaper, maybe, but if you want support/validation then yeah, probably worth it. Plus falcons old enough that doing POs and getting on the approved vendor list is ez for them
The reason for the price difference is both Falcon and Puget System do direct support for their PC’s rather than everything just being part MFG warranties.
So if you want stable, and you want support, this is the cost.
As a secondary drive that’s fine.
Bah, okay. That defeats the point. I wanted a single, big logical drive and let it auto-decide whether to store stuff on the NVME, SSD, and spinning rust. I may as well just use 3 separate drives and sort it manually.
I see Enmotus went out of business and their software can’t be trusted.
As a plain secondary drive, should my backup routine be normal or highly paranoid? Would the first 128GB make for a good Win pagefile/app scratch disk partition?
Tbh I’m not sure. The solidigm drives are so cheap id probably only use it for scratch.
You could kinda use primocsche with data plus nvme to set it and forget it ?
But I like a low latency boot/apps drive too.
So recommended options for the Fuzedrive’s 128 GB partition are either:
And don’t use anything on the Fusedrive as a primary user data store.
For cold storage, I was about to grab a $129 Ironwolf 8TB NAS drive when I noticed this $319 8TB Samsung 870 QVO drive. Prime day deals have started.
I might have to grab some 2TB 990 Pros for $129 while I’m at it. These prices seem stupid-low after the last 2 years of nonsense.
The fizedrive is prolly okay but I don’t like having to dig into archives for the right driver. :-/
And right flash is so cheap spinning rust only for bas devices now. Is crazy!
Wendell
What CAD software are you using most?