Spec a pc for design work

MG44

MG44

MG44

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hey guys

i am an industrial design student and i am looking to build myself a new system. my old rig is having a lot of problems running some of my larger CAD files and also photo shopping stuff in large res's.

Main program i use are Keyshot 2, Pro engineer and photoshop

I am looking to get a entry level professional graphics rendering card as i very rarely play games and the few i do own arnt very graphic intensive. That will probably be about £100 -120

I recently got myself a new PSU and HDD, a 600w OCZ modxstream and a 1TB Samsung spin point F3, will they be ok to reuse?

can you spec me the rest of the system, what are the OCUk oc bundles like?

thanks

mark
 
Yeah the PSU and HDD are good.

So you want CPU, motherboard, RAM, optical drive and case?

Need an OS?

And whats your budget?
 
yes cpu, mobo, RAM, case and cpu cooler
i got a new CD drive a few months back when the old ones motor failed so thjats one less thing aswell.

erm on the OS front iv got a win 7 upgrade disk but i would have to install vista first which isnt ideal. So will probably need 7 64bit included.
Erm budget wise, probably £400-500 i think, if any one has experience with NVIDIA's quadro range that would help me make a decision on which one to get.

Cheers
 
as an industrial design student i will happily eat my own shoes if you cant get windows 7 for a discount somewhere (or at least cheaper than on OcUK)

i believe software4students has a nice discount if you cant get it for free from your university/college

leaving £40 for windows 7 and £120 for a quadro graphics card, this is what ive come up with:

Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £89.99
(£74.99) £89.99
(£74.99)
Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £79.99
(£66.66) £79.99
(£66.66)
Asus M4A78LT-M 760G (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £49.99
(£41.66) £49.99
(£41.66)
Antec 100 One Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £43.99
(£36.66) £43.99
(£36.66)
Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.99
(£21.66) £25.99
(£21.66)
Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
(£13.32) £15.98
(£13.32)
Sub Total : £254.95
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.75
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £53.34
Total : £320.04
 
what is the Phenom lik for OC'ing?
ideally id like to get 4Ghz from it as my rendering program works on sheer CPU power and not what the GPU can do.
my friends has a oc'ed i5 and its amazingly fast even when doing HD renders of metals or glossy plastics?
 
for now lets say excluding OS and GPU i need to look into which one to get for that.
Case wise i'm tempted by the HAF 12 plus as i helped build a friends a system with that case, i would also need fan filters as a dust filled pc is one of my great hates.

So looking for
8Gb or RAM
best cpu and mobo i can squezze for that price
and easy over clocking or pre over clocked
air cooled as i have to go to and from uni and water isnt great for transporting

iv built pc's before but never over clocked
 
ah, if its £500 excluding OS and graphics, then that changes everything.

the AMD phenom would probably get to 4Ghz on the cooler i recommended, but it would be destroyed by an equivalently clocked i5 2500k.

Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor £173.99
(£144.99) £173.99
(£144.99)
Gigabyte Z68MA-D2H Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £109.99
(£91.66) £109.99
(£91.66)
Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £79.99
(£66.66) £79.99
(£66.66)
Cooler Master HAF 912 Plus Case - Black £59.99
(£49.99) £59.99
(£49.99)
Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £25.99
(£21.66) £25.99
(£21.66)
Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98
(£13.32) £15.98
(£13.32)
Sub Total : £388.28
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.75
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £80.01
Total : £480.04

*edit*
DVD drive now there. had to remove the SSD for it, but to be honest a 30GB SSD isnt really the way to do it, and i have no idea how good/bad the whole intel smartrespose thing is
 
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that looks fantastic.
How does the SSD help? what would i load on their, windows and then set it to store everything eles on the samsung?
yes having lots of PCI's is gd as i have a asus sound card aswell
also NVIDIA's quadro professional can be SLI'd which is amazing, ati's firepro cards are currently not worth looking at they have really neglected them

would the Akasa Freedom Tower CPU Cooler fit that socket as i could reuse my current cooler then.
 
if you have the mounting kits for a 1155 or 1156 socket, then idont see any reason why it wouldnt.

your going to have to ask someone else about the SSD with intel smart response, because i literally know what the company tells you, and thats pretty much it.

also, just had another thought. its an mATX board, so it only has 4 slots in total, so if you went SLI, then the graphics card, which are so big they cover the slot beneath them, would cover all the slots.

dont know if that will be a problem for you
 
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in all honestly no
i only own 2 games, IL2 1946 and theatre of war
i spend the majority of my time slaved to CAD so having the power to improve that is more of a concern to me than playing games.
the quadro cards am looking at are single slot any way,
the dual slot quadro's are so huge they need a mount bracket to clamp onto the case to support it
and the fact they cost £3000 + is a small factor
 
To the OP re Quadro.

I have experience of NVS 295 and NVS 450 quadros, I'm running a NVS 450 on this machine.

My purpose for running is a technology called Nvidia Mosaic that allows multiple screens to become a single desktop, it's very useful as it allows me to run a Remote Desktop over 3 identical monitors. I can remote desktop into work, and all 3 monitors are in use.

I like the Quadro drivers and there more reliable then the GeForce drivers, as there not caught up fixes for computer games. I also like the NVS 295 and 450 are low power cards.

I do play Company of Heros on the 450 spanned over 3 monitors, and it manages ok just. These cards will also do spanned HD 1080 video.

I paid £50 for the NVS 450, and £22 each for the NVS 295, they were clean pulls from Dell machines. The performance on them is very similar to a Geforce 8400GS, this is fine for business/2d rig. For people running business applications, providing you can pick Quadros up cheap there are often a better alternative as drivers more stable, plus cards are often lower power.

I have no experience of the expensive Quadros however.
 
thats great thanks, i have been looking at the new quadro 600 which is at the top of the entry level cards, can get a new one for around £120-140
or if am lucky on ebay around £80 so i shall keep an eye out!

just out of interest the mobo that was spec'd above, does any one know what its like for OC'ing?
 
all of the z68 and p67 boards are great for overclocking. the overclock is limited by the CPU generally on sandybridge, not by the motherboard :) z68 are meant to give better overclocks apparently,unsure of how true that is though
 
whats the difference between H67 and P67?

And would a H50 or similar be worth investing in or would i only get another 200MHz from using it?
 
MG44 said:
whats the difference between H67 and P67?

And would a H50 or similar be worth investing in or would i only get another 200MHz from using it?
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H67 has integrated graphics and doesn't allow overclocking.

P67 doesn't have integrated graphics but allows overclocking.
 
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