Proposed £1000 CAD/ Gaming Rig

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Hi! This is my current proposed build. It will be used mainly for CAD work (Autodesk inventor) and some gaming. I have a 1TB 2.5" HDD lying around somewhere for more storage.

Any suggestions? Particularly for the power supply and SSD are there better/ cheaper alternatives. Also, now that i am looking at a small form factor card is there a smaller case anyone can recommend as I'm a student and space is at a premium!

Thanks :)


My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,084.45 (includes shipping: £12.60)​
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Over budget Mini-ITX rig, that will look ace and has the best 8 core CPU you can get right now in terms of speed/value. I've even managed to include one of the fastest NVMe M.2 drives, and a far superior EVGA graphics card, and a very nice PSU.

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7GHz 8-Core Processor
Motherboard: ASRock - B450 GAMING-ITX/AC Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard
Memory: Crucial - Ballistix Elite 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory
Storage: ADATA - XPG SX8200 480GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8GB SC GAMING ACX 3.0 Black Edition Video Card
Case: Thermaltake - Level 20 VT MicroATX Desktop Case
Power Supply: SeaSonic - EVO Edition 620W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

Total: £1175.05
 
Journey said:
Over budget Mini-ITX rig, that will look ace and has the best 8 core CPU you can get right now in terms of speed/value. I've even managed to include one of the fastest NVMe M.2 drives, and a far superior EVGA graphics card, and a very nice PSU.

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7GHz 8-Core Processor
Motherboard: ASRock - B450 GAMING-ITX/AC Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard
Memory: Crucial - Ballistix Elite 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory
Storage: ADATA - XPG SX8200 480GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8GB SC GAMING ACX 3.0 Black Edition Video Card
Case: Thermaltake - Level 20 VT MicroATX Desktop Case
Power Supply: SeaSonic - EVO Edition 620W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

Total: £1175.05
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why a bronze rated psu in that budget? also my m-atx case when there are itx cases to fit the hardware?
 
ExoMale said:
why a bronze rated psu in that budget? also my m-atx case when there are itx cases to fit the hardware?
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Why not, how much does 5% efficiency difference at 50% load make in terms of the cost to run it for it's entire lifespan? I chose the case 'cause it's nice, and has a rather large and quiet 200mm fan fitted at the front, and space for a 120mm at the rear so it can be keep rather cool, and if he wanted to swith to MATX instead he could since the Mini-ITX board is pretty pricey, but you do get the WI-Fi etc in it.

Why did you chose a £240 1800X when the 2700X is £40-50 more? Why did you opt for a significantly slower graphics card? He's asked for suggestions, I gave one option.
 
Journey said:
Why not, how much does 5% efficiency difference at 50% load make in terms of the cost to run it for it's entire lifespan? I chose the case 'cause it's nice, and has a rather large and quiet 200mm fan fitted at the front, and space for a 120mm at the rear so it can be keep rather cool, and if he wanted to swith to MATX instead he could since the Mini-ITX board is pretty pricey, but you do get the WI-Fi etc in it.

Why did you chose a £240 1800X when the 2700X is £40-50 more? Why did you opt for a significantly slower graphics card? He's asked for suggestions, I gave one option.
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fair enough, but theres a reason for the ratings, wouldnt a gold rated or even silver rated be strong overall?. the case is nice, but could be smaller..

i chose the 1800x for its price and generally 1st gen systems can be built cheaper, i went with the 580 to throw in a radeon option, plus making a 1tb ssd fit the budget.
 
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