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beanflying:
It has been a long long while since I built a PC from scratch (XP days) and have an ASUS I5 Laptop and a couple refurbished PC's without Graphics cards in use currently. I have got to a point where even rendering 1080P is a PITA and CAD models are bogging down and crashing Fusion 360 in some cases on the shack PC. I have avoided capturing 4K off my good drone due to this and is a big part of the upgrade reason. Game playing isn't really a consideration but some performance that way would be a bonus.

So time to spend some $ and build a new one but before I commit to hardware second and third opinions being sought. I have done about as much BS filtered youtube watching as I can handle but the following is what I have come up with for my circa $1-1.2k. You can stick your RGB lights for $ somewhere else too it's a working PC not a showbag :horse:

Ryzen 2700X (would consider the 2600X if others thought putting $ elsewhere is better as there is about a $90 differential)
32GB DDR4 3200 Ram (Corsair or Ripjaws or ?)
500 GB (Samsung Evo 970 plus?)
B450 Pro Wifi motherboard (seems to tick all the boxes now and upgrading later) https://www.gigabyte.com/au/Motherboard/B450-AORUS-PRO-WIFI-rev-10#kf
H500 Cooler Master or similar case that is roomy and quiet
Power Supply 5-600W modular leads and quiet

Video cards is where I am getting most lost but an RX 580 8Gb but which brand and spec and should I look at secondhand? Should I look at GTX 1060 or 70's? With the other bits above there is $250-400 USD left to play with for this bit.

Bicurico:
Cheapest option is buying  HP Z600 workstation for 150 Euro and fitting two Xeon X5670. Make sure you get the later motherboard supporting these and buy one taht already comes with two CPUs.
Then fit a SSD and a Geforce GTX860. Buy memory.
Total cost is around 400 Euro for 24 virtual cores,  24GB RAM, GTX and SSD.
Can't beat this price/performance ratio.
Regards,
Vitor

beanflying:

--- Quote from: Bicurico on June 29, 2019, 10:33:50 am ---Cheapest option is buying  HP Z600 workstation for 150 Euro and fitting two Xeon X5670. Make sure you get the later motherboard supporting these and buy one taht already comes with two CPUs.
Then fit a SSD and a Geforce GTX860. Buy memory.
Total cost is around 400 Euro for 24 virtual cores,  24GB RAM, GTX and SSD.
Can't beat this price/performance ratio.
Regards,
Vitor

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Funny you should mention that option I was watching this only a few hours ago https://youtu.be/NT9Uj0sgLR4

I am in this case reluctant to buy yet another used  box that is already maxed out for any future upgrades. It may certainly suit others on a tighter budget.  :)

sokoloff:
I just bought two used Dell 9020s, one for here and one for my dad. Dad got the small form factor; I got a mini-tower, because I wanted to get a half-decent graphics card. (I happened to pick an RX580 for a specific compatibility reason. Pick the video card that works well with the application you intend to use; any of them will work with games; sometimes productivity apps will work better with one brand or architecture vs another.)

You can get the very well constructed, few year old Dell (or HP) workstations stupid cheap and they are pretty upgradeable. Get one with an i7-4770 or so, put 32GB of RAM in, a small SSD, and a decent video card and you'll be around $550-650 all-in (at least in the US, where the market is thick with surplus and lease-return hardware).

If you're buying all the parts yourself, you're right to think hard and spend money on cooling and the power supply. I don't feel qualified to comment on the specifics of the latest Ryzen vs latest Intel, etc.

olkipukki:

--- Quote from: beanflying on June 29, 2019, 10:22:42 am ---Ryzen 2700X (would consider the 2600X if others thought putting $ elsewhere is better as there is about a $90 differential)
32GB DDR4 3200 Ram (Corsair or Ripjaws or ?)
500 GB (Samsung Evo 970 plus?)
B450 Pro Wifi motherboard (seems to tick all the boxes now and upgrading later) https://www.gigabyte.com/au/Motherboard/B450-AORUS-PRO-WIFI-rev-10#kf
H500 Cooler Master or similar case that is roomy and quiet
Power Supply 5-600W modular leads and quiet


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Doesn't make much sense to do it right now if you are not in rush...

Just wait and see how much and how long to wait new Ryzen 7 3nnnX (about to release on 7th of July) will available in your country.

I would say very likely you will able to buy Ryzen 27xxx cheaper after 37xxx release and a mass adoption.

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