MicroATX build for 3D Artist

[DreamHarvest]

Hi Everyone,

I'm currently looking to build a new system for a friend and I'm looking for some advice on the build.

He has a budget of around 1400 Euros and needs a system that can handle 3D work in Maya, rendering and heavy duty photoshop and animation work.

He needs something that's somewhat portable (can fit in an airplane overhead locker) so I suggested to him a MicroATX build but I know you guys are pretty good at this so what would you suggest? He'll need to purchase the lot, ie. CPU, MB, Ram, Case, GFX Card, HD's/SSD's, Cooling. The system needs to be a workhorse so we're looking at 32GB Ram, an i7, at least one SSD for his working files and maybe a standard high capacity HD for backup.

Anyway, would love to see what you guys can come up with

Thanks

 

[Quartz]

He needs something that's somewhat portable (can fit in an airplane overhead locker) so I suggested to him a MicroATX build but I know you guys are pretty good at this so what would you suggest?

He'll need an ITX build for that by the time all the protective packaging is considered. Take a look at the Shuttle XPC barebones systems. E1400 isn't a lot for that sort of kit: if you went for a X99 box you could spend that on the Xeon CPU alone.

 

[DreamHarvest]

Thanks Quartz,

I think he'll probably go for a standard card rather than a Quadro or a Xeon processor. A 5820K with a GTX 1070 might be sufficient; I use a similar setup GTX1080 though for quite a lot of heavy duty video audio and game development work and it holds pretty well.