Computer conundrum, need suugestion/advice

Petrolhead

Petrolhead

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My main office computer is quite a beefy setup:
Intel i7 CPU - Corsair water colled
GTX 980ti - Corsair water cooled
32GB Ram
A couple of SSDs and and 2TB hard drive.

I use this mainly for Editing videos.

Recently I bought an Xbox one and play a lot of sim games and therefore have a sim rig in the loft with the Xbox One and a 65" LG OLED.

I find the xbox frustration ie inability to map steering wheel button, too few tracks and cars. However the PC verion is much better and more realistic.

So what do I do, buy another gaming rig which will probably cost about £1500 or get a small office pc for the office and put the beefy rig upstairs with the sim rig. When I ned the power I could use remote desktop to access it and the two will be gonencted via a GB Lan.

My only concern is my main monitor in the office is a Dell U3145W (3440x1440)so the small office pc will need to be able to run it. Most cheaper office PCs only have HDMI, will that be enough?
 
Maybe harvest your current build?

Build a new mid range machine for the office and dump in the 980ti. Take the office machine and put at 1070 time or better to drive that oled 4k?

Or some variation on it.

I've never got in to console gaming, and had them all. I always go back to PC. Although we have a switch now and genuinely love it.
 
cms239 said:
The CPU is an i7-5820K
I currently use Adobe Premier Pro, whats Ryzen
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Land yourself in a hard place as your chip is high end so can do either well, for a gaming rig to be worthy of knocking your current one off it needs to be i7 8700k which is costly , if you want it to be editing needs more cores ....

Which would leave you with AMD Ryzen system
Ryzen 1700 which is 8 core and 16 threads which can be overclocked to 3.7ghz on AMD stock cooler on a 2nd tier chipset B350 for £85-116 - x370 is flagship chip but most of budget b350 boards as they Overclock just as well.
Down side is need a cheap GPU as no on board ... Got a spare GPU around covered in dust ?

Core components


My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £546.47 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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It might actually render 4k videos quicker then current- would be your workstation and current would be your gaming rig .
Also have the option to whack in 2nd gen or 3rd gen Ryzen as they will use the same socket in the next two years down the line - which will be faster then your current Chip all around
 
 
So you'd remote log in downstairs to do work on your pc upstairs ...
Would just do your work upstairs unless the set up in the loaf doesn't have room for a desk .... ?

That or a second hand laptop for £100
 
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