New CAD build

mattyy

mattyy

mattyy

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Hi guys, another request from me.

This time I need a machine spec'd for office, browsing, CAD and photoshop work.
I have just brought a Samsung 971D to use with this new base unit at 1440p

Budget of £700 and will not need keyboard/mouse/monitor but I will need an OS.

Build away!
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £251.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV316G213C1K) £129.95
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 650 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (01G-P4-2650-KR) £89.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £71.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £49.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £49.99
Total : £723.89 (includes shipping : FREE).



GTX 650 to help with CAD work. Edit: Thought you had a drive as well. My bad!

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV316G213C1K) £129.95
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 650 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (01G-P4-2650-KR) £89.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £71.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £65.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £49.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £49.99
Total : £717.88 (includes shipping : FREE).



Dropped to an i5.
 
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As with all these work builds, you should first check:
1. how much memory you actually use, whether 4, 8, 16, 32 (or more!) GB
2. whether you can make use of GPU acceleration
 
joeyjojo said:
As with all these work builds, you should first check:
1. how much memory you actually use, whether 4, 8, 16, 32 (or more!) GB
2. whether you can make use of GPU acceleration
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I would like to go with 16gb, I think that is enough.
As for the GPU, happy to spend the £90, I assume i'm going to need some kind of discrete GPU to power the monitor at 1440p anyway.

The builds look good. Would you say the extra is worth it for the i7? Seeing as the machine would probably utilise the i7?

Forgot to mention about the storage. I would like to go with an SSD - probably the Kingston hyper x. The storage will be centrally on a NAS like system although I do have the previous machines HDD I can also use.
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4771 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £239.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV316G213C1K) £129.95
1 x Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £71.99
1 x Gainward GeForce GT640 2048MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £69.95
1 x Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £63.95
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £49.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £49.99
Total : £755.80 (includes shipping : FREE).



The K version isn't much more so i'd go with that if you can afford the extra £12 or so..
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £251.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV316G213C1K) £129.95
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 650 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (01G-P4-2650-KR) £89.99
1 x Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (SH103S3/120G) £85.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £71.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £49.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £49.99
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £14.99
Total : £837.47 (includes shipping : £10.50).




Can anyone improve on that?
 
mattyy said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £251.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV316G213C1K) £129.95
1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 650 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (01G-P4-2650-KR) £89.99
1 x Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (SH103S3/120G) £85.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £71.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £49.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £49.99
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £14.99
Total : £837.47 (includes shipping : £10.50).




Can anyone improve on that?
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That looks good to me althought I would personally go with the non k 4770 i7 for your work load because of the extra instruction sets.
 
Doomedspeed said:
Not me. Mine was more cost effective but yours is very good. :)
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I actually was a bit dubious with the GTX640 not having the dual link DVI so that I could get 1440p, after some research it seems it does - so I will go with that after all.

As for the K or non K. I guess this is correct, the benefits of the non K outweigh the K even though the price is so small at the moment. However I can actually get the non K 4771 for the same price as the non K 4770.

Revised build with different case.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4771 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £239.99
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV316G213C1K) £129.95
1 x Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (SH103S3/120G) £85.99
1 x Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £71.99
1 x Gainward GeForce GT640 2048MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £69.95
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £49.99
1 x NZXT Source 210 Elite Midi Tower Case - Black £39.95
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £14.99
Total : £782.78 (includes shipping : FREE).



Is the Kingston SSD worth the £20 extra over the Toshiba currently on offer?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £63.95
Total : £63.95 (includes shipping : FREE).




Edit -
Just noticed

YOUR BASKET
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £79.99
Total : £79.99 (includes shipping : FREE).



So dismiss the kingston... The samsung or the toshiba?
 
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