Spec Me - New Work Station

[Big T]

Good Afternoon All

Looking for a new Work Station no peripherals required.

Budget £4000

Work Load, Revit, Auto CAD, Trimble, 3d modelling, point clouds and calculations looking for heavy-duty processing loads and multi-core operations, pre-built also an option if it gives good value for money

 

[Tetras]

If you plan on using more than 64GB of memory (especially in a 4 stick config) there's no point in buying fast memory, unless the 9000 series releasing soon support a higher speed *.

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D Sixteen Core 5.70GHz (Socket AM5) Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-3DR-AM) = £499.99
• 1 x Asus TUF Gaming X670E-Plus WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MB-6J9-AS) = £239.99
• 1 x G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo EXPO 64GB (2x32GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C30 6000MHz Dual Channel Kit - B (SKU: MEM-GSK-01361) = £239.99
• 1 x Asus GeForce RTX 4090 TUF OC 24GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card (SKU: GX-48B-AS) = £1,799.99
• 2 x WD Black SN850X 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (WDS200T2X0E) (SKU: HD-591-WD) = £124.99
• 1 x Phanteks Eclipse P600S Silent Midi Tower Case - Black (SKU: CA-08V-PT) = £139.99
• 1 x Phanteks M25 140mm PWM High-Airflow Chassis Fan - Black (SKU: FG-033-PT) = £9.95
• 1 x Asus TUF Gaming 1000W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply (SKU: CA-05Z-AS) = £119.99

• 1 x Arctic Liquid Freezer III High Performance CPU Water Cooler - 360mm (SKU: COO-ARC-01991) = £76.99

• 1 x Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 64-Bit DVD - OEM (FQC-10528) (SKU: SW-18K-MS) = £149.99

Total: £3,526.85 (includes delivery: £0.00)​

* Old videos, but worth a watch:

AMD Ryzen 7000: 48GB DIMMs, Agesa 1.0.0.7 And A Future With 192GB RAM

48gb DIMMs are here, but things aren't quite so simple for Team Red. Wendell lays it out here!Forum thread: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/ddr5-4-dimms-on-a...

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Is 128GB of DDR5 IMPOSSIBLE on AM5? Level1 Investigates!

Check out the forum thread here: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/7950x-i-want-4x32gb-unless-it-sucks-does-it-suck/189825**********************************Che...

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If you don't need the X3D's cache for any of your workloads ad don't play games, then I'd consider buying it anyway because it is cheaper and due to the cache, it is less performance sensitive to memory speed, which will be handy if you need to run 4 sticks.

I can't advise on which 4090 to choose, their prices and warranty lengths are all over the place.

 

[sx_turbo]

can you claim the vat back?

There is a competitor that can do a pre-built thread ripper 7960x with a 4090, 64gb ram etc etc bla bla bla for £4060 +vat.

You can likely build cheaper though so it's an option and probably more what your looking for the size budget you have.

If you want to stay mainstream desktop, wait for the 9000 series amd chips and ask the question again. They are due for release in 2 weeks.

 

[jigger]

For £4K I’d be looking to build something around a TR 7970X.


TR 7970X 32c 64t.
Gigabyte TRX50 Aero D or Asus TRX50 Sage.
Artic freezer 4U-M.
4x32/64gb of Kingston DDR5 renegade ECC RDIMMs.
Seasonic SYNCRO Q704 DGC-750 gold.

Should have all the major bases covered.

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