Building a New Work PC and I Need Your Guidance Please

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with a GPU?
 
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hi Oliver thank you for the spec. I think I have found the perfect spec:

Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel x2
23" Dell UltraSharp U2312HM Widescreen IPS LED Monitor - Black
MSI Z77A-G45 Intel Z77 Socket 1155 DDR3 PCI-Express Motherboard 9
be quiet! Shadow Rock Pro Quiet CPU Cooler
EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W)
Cooler Master Silencio 450 Black Midi Tower Soundproof Chassis w/ USB3.0
500W be quiet! STRAIGHT POWER E9 80PLUS Gold Power Supply
Crucial m4 128GB 2.5" SATA-III Solid State Hard Drive
Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 800
Microsoft Wireless Mouse 1000

All this for £1150 built and delivered. Think we have a winner :D
 
sldsmkd said:
We have 300-400 3d people at the place I work at and no one uses a consumer card - don't know if that's a policy or productivity thing.
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I see the OP has now moved on from workstation cards so I'm a bit late, but if it's any help I use a GTX580 for 3D Studio max with no problem at all. I also have a 480 a 275 and an even an 8800 in slave render machines that also work.

I haven't built a workstation with a Quadro in years and barring a nasty incident with MAX 2011 and Nvidia 4xx series cards have never had an issue.

Autodesk's new nitrous viewport drivers are a dream with the 580.

Only thing I would say about that spec is the 128gb might be a tad small, I have AutoCAD, 3D Studio Max, Creative Suite Master collection and a few other bits on a 256gb M4 and I'm showing 128gb free, so be sure to stick in a storage drive.
 
richard11992288 said:
hi Oliver thank you for the spec. I think I have found the perfect spec:

Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel x2
23" Dell UltraSharp U2312HM Widescreen IPS LED Monitor - Black
MSI Z77A-G45 Intel Z77 Socket 1155 DDR3 PCI-Express Motherboard 9
be quiet! Shadow Rock Pro Quiet CPU Cooler
EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W)
Cooler Master Silencio 450 Black Midi Tower Soundproof Chassis w/ USB3.0
500W be quiet! STRAIGHT POWER E9 80PLUS Gold Power Supply
Crucial m4 128GB 2.5" SATA-III Solid State Hard Drive
Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 800
Microsoft Wireless Mouse 1000

All this for £1150 built and delivered. Think we have a winner :D
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Looks good. Watchout for the Dark Rock Pro, it's ma-hoo-ssive.
 
Thanks for the confirmation on the spec guys.

Ive had a look at how much space ill need for a HDD.

If I get a 128GB SSD I'm guessing ill actually have about maybe 120 when I view it within windows?

The install size for Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit, 3D Studio Max 2012 and Adobe CS5 Design Standard (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign & Adobe Acrobat), the total amount of space it will take up should be about 32GB leaving me with 88GB free. The only other apps I have installed are little programs like CCleaner, Malwarebyte and FileZilla. I do have my music collection on my PC for while I work but that can go on the back up drive. Will 128GB be enough? Nothing is saved onto the machine, all work will be saved onto a server.
 
richard11992288 said:
Thanks for the confirmation on the spec guys.

Ive had a look at how much space ill need for a HDD.

If I get a 128GB SSD I'm guessing ill actually have about maybe 120 when I view it within windows?

The install size for Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit, 3D Studio Max 2012 and Adobe CS5 Design Standard (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign & Adobe Acrobat), the total amount of space it will take up should be about 32GB leaving me with 88GB free. The only other apps I have installed are little programs like CCleaner, Malwarebyte and FileZilla. I do have my music collection on my PC for while I work but that can go on the back up drive. Will 128GB be enough? Nothing is saved onto the machine, all work will be saved onto a server.
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I would go for the Samsung 830 Notebook 256GB. It's worth the extra £50.

Windows would take around 32GB. Most windows files in winsxs folder.

However, with 16GB RAM, you will be looking at 10GB hibernation file and page file (6-8GB with 8GB RAM).

You can disable hibernation, and move the page file to another drive. Not sure if you can move the hibernation as well, maybe with mklink command.

And I'd make a 60-100GB partition on a HDD for the backup and restore files. Another thing you don't want on the SSD.

The extra space hogger are the user folders and application data. These contains temp folder, browser history, download folders. You can re-route most of these folders (RMB folder -> properties -> location).

All in all you can easily get away with a 128GB drive, with a little bit of maintenance.

256GB gives you more space, but you can also use a partition for example, a cache for your applications (Dev Studio, video conversion, photoshop, ect...), or as part of the Windows SRT technology (using a SSD to speed up hard drive access).

And yes, you will not have 120GB space on disk. More like 110GB available.
 
Thanks for all the info Olivier.

If my estimations are correct then a 128GB SSD will give say 110GB.

Lose 32GB for Windows, 3GB for Max, 8.5GB for CS5 Standard and 10GB for the hibernation file.

So I should have 66gb free. I only have a few basic apps like open office, ccleaner etc as well so lets say 60gb free.

Are my estimations correct?
 
Just check how much scratch disc usage you will be using. I sometimes use upwards of 6gb at any one time and that is with 12Gb of ram (which is often 85% used) in CS4 Photoshop.

Using a SSD as a scratch disc will increase the degradation of the disc. It is easily possible to go through 80Gb of scratch writes in a couple hour long session in my experience so I think a conventional hard drive would probably be better for the purpose.

OFC if you write to your 500GB spare drive this would solve the solution but the faster the scratch drive the better the performance and I don't think an IDE drive would work to well for this purpose.

It all really depends on the resolution and the number of layers though, so this might not be a big issue.
 
Exsurgo I don't think that will be a problem as the Photoshop work I do is minor, sometimes I edit maps with the brush tool or I resized maps if they are too big. Other than that its mainly 3D Max I use. As for illustrator I just create planograms and cut lines for prototypes which dopiest use much in the way of system resoruces.
 
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