Please advise on this custom workstation configuration for CAD, Animation, Modellign and Premier Editing/After Effects

[Spikey Sonic]

How is this build for Rhino (and Addons), Solidworks, Maya, 3D Studio Max, V- Ray, Keyshot, Premier, Adobe Audition, Autocad, Mudbox etc

So video Editing, Effects, 3D-Animation, CAD, rendering etc.

Im trying to manage around a budget of £2600 to £2875 so thinking of delaying Microsoft Student and Home 2019 and a raid 1 Mirror pair of Seagate Barracuda Pro drives most likly 4Tb ones

Was also wondering about Xeon single or Dual processor boards and xeon 2145 8 core or 2155 10core(single mother board) or a single Xeon Silver 4114 10 core prcessors in a dual processor board  ( for upgrade to 2 processors later)

How much better is the I9 - 7900x to a cheaper or I7 - 7800x or  6 core or I7 - 7820x processors

Also can this output to 4k video?

Case

CORSAIR GRAPHITE SERIES™ 780T FULL TOWER CASE

[SIZE=3]Processor (CPU)

Intel® Core™ i9 10 Core Processor i9-7900X (3.3GHz) 13.75MB Cache

FREE Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 & More w/ select Intel CPUs!

[SIZE=3]Motherboard

ASUS® WS X299 SAGE: USB 3.1, SATA 6 GB/s

[SIZE=3]Memory (RAM)

16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 2400MHz (2 x 8GB)

[SIZE=3]Graphics Card

PNY QUADRO P2000 - 5GB GDDR5, 1024 CUDA Cores - 4 x DP

[SIZE=3]1st Hard Disk

NOT REQUIRED ( Hope to add a Mirror RAID 1 PAIR OF SEAGATE BARRACUDA Pro 4 tb drives soon after, so will have the budget to get the system sooner)

[SIZE=3]1st M.2 SSD Drive

1TB SAMSUNG 970 EVO M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3400MB/R, 2500MB/W)

FREE Assassin's Creed: Odyssey with select SAMSUNG NVMe SSDs!

DVD/BLU-RAY Drive

NOT REQUIRED

[SIZE=3]Power Supply

CORSAIR 550W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET

[SIZE=3]Power Cable

1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)

[SIZE=3]Processor Cooling

INTEL SOCKET 2011/2066 STANDARD CPU COOLER

[SIZE=3]Thermal Paste

STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING (Is the etra £9 thermal past with adding)

[SIZE=3]

Sound Card

ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

[SIZE=3]Wireless/Wired Networking

WIRELESS 802.11 AC1750 1,300Mbps/5GHz, 450Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD

[SIZE=3]USB Options

2 PORT (2 x TYPE A) USB 3.0 PCI-E CARD + STANDARD USB PORTS

[SIZE=3]Operating System

Genuine Windows 10 Professional 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [MUP-00003]

[SIZE=3]Operating System Language

United Kingdom - English Language

[SIZE=3]Windows Recovery Media

Windows 10 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Unlimited Downloads from Online Account (How much better is a dvd or usb drive)

[SIZE=3]Office Software

FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft® Office® 365 (Operating System Required) (trying to lower the cost to get this earlier and Get Office Home and Student 2019 later)

[SIZE=3]Anti-Virus

BullGuard™ Internet Security - 3 User, 1 Year

[SIZE=3]Browser

Microsoft® Edge (Windows 10 Only)

[SIZE=3]Keyboard & Mouse

PCS S300 USB MEDIA KEYBOARD

[SIZE=3]Warranty

3 Year Platinum Warranty (3 Year Collect & Return, 3 Year Parts, 3 Year labour)

[SIZE=3]Delivery

TIMED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND - MON-FRI, PRE-NOON

[SIZE=3]Build Time

Standard Build - Approximately 6 to 8 working days

[SIZE=3]Quantity

1

Price £2,877.00 including VAT and Delivery

Unique URL to re-configure : https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/intel-x299-workstation/Q5S!hStVvm/

Also how hard is it to add a raid mirror array of hard drives at a later date?

Any suggestions of tweaks to this configurations, to help with video editing and podacastign or better components or more value for money

At present looking to get from www.pcSpecialist.co.uk

Open to alternatives

Uk costs etc please

[Moderator note: moved to best forum.]

[Peru Bob]

You will want at least 32 GB RAM, preferably 64 GB RAM if more than 6 cores.

You should get a Nvidia graphics card with more CUDA cores than the one you've chosen, perhaps a GTX 1080.

[Spikey Sonic]

Thanks

These are the updates on possible builds.I will look to increase the ram when I have more money but lookign to get started asap poss black friday.  Are these better and is it better to go the intel or amd thread ripper routes? Also i head the new Geforce RTX 2080 seem to be having problems or bugs... do you know anythgin about that? and what difference is there between the rtx 2070 and 2080 8gbother then its a bit faster?

Still trying to narrow down spec builds.

This would be for a workstation to be primarily used for

Rhino, Grasshopper, V-Ray, Solidworks, Keyshot, Maya, 3D Studio Max, Adobe Premier, Photoshop, Z Brush, Mudbox, Autocad, Autodesk Alais, .

For CAD, rendering, video editing, with greenscreen effects, Podcasting, video logging, 3d printing, product design, modelmaking, props etc

The odd game would be nice but that would only be a small % as generally avoid them as too distracting when need to get on wit stuff.

The norm is to have lots of applications open.

Been trying to decide between Quadro and Gefore GTX or RTX graphics cards. The bulk of advice here seems to show that the gefore cards would be better despite being more of consumer and games graphics cards.

I was originally thinking of Xeon or dual Xeon set ups with EEC memory and Quadro cards but more and more been advised against this

Its more a case of Threadripper 1920x or 2920x (what exactly is the difference)

or an 19-7900x 10 core or I7 - 7820x 8 core route.

Please advise

  Case

CORSAIR GRAPHITE SERIES™ 780T FULL TOWER CASE

Processor (CPU)

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2920X 12 Core CPU (3.5GHz - 4.3GHz, 38MB CACHE)

Motherboard

ASUS® PRIME X399-A (DDR4, 6Gb/s, CrossFireX/SLI) - RGB Ready!

Memory (RAM)

16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3200MHz (2 x 8GB)

Graphics Card

8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2070 - HDMI, 3x DP GeForce - RTX VR Ready!

1st Hard Disk

NOT REQUIRED

1st M.2 SSD Drive

1TB SAMSUNG 970 EVO M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3400MB/R, 2500MB/W)
FREE Assassin's Creed: Odyssey with select SAMSUNG NVMe SSDs!

DVD/BLU-RAY Drive

NOT REQUIRED

Power Supply

CORSAIR 850W RMx SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET

Power Cable

1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)

Processor Cooling

Corsair H100x Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler

Thermal Paste

STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING

Sound Card

ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)


Wireless/Wired Networking

WIRELESS 802.11 AC1750 1,300Mbps/5GHz, 450Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD

USB/Thunderbolt Options

MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS

Operating System

Genuine Windows 10 Professional 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [MUP-00003]

Operating System Language

United Kingdom - English Language

Windows Recovery Media

Windows 10 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Supplied on USB Drive

Office Software

FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft® Office® 365 (Operating System Required)

Anti-Virus

BullGuard™ Internet Security - 3 User, 1 Year

Browser

Microsoft® Edge (Windows 10 Only)

Keyboard & Mouse

PCS S300 USB MEDIA KEYBOARD

Warranty

3 Year Platinum Warranty (3 Year Collect & Return, 3 Year Parts, 3 Year labour)

Delivery

TIMED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND - MON-FRI, PRE-NOON

Build Time

Standard Build - Approximately 6 to 8 working days

Quantity
1

Price £2,671.00 including VAT and Delivery

Unique URL to re-configure : https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved...s//2G07g7FkM0/

Or

  Case

CORSAIR GRAPHITE SERIES™ 780T FULL TOWER CASE

Processor (CPU)

Intel® Core™ i9 10 Core Processor i9-7900X (3.3GHz) 13.75MB Cache
FREE Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 & More w/ select Intel CPUs!

Motherboard

ASUS® WS X299 SAGE: USB 3.1, SATA 6 GB/s

Memory (RAM)

16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 2666MHz (2 x 8GB)

Graphics Card

8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2070 - HDMI, 3x DP GeForce - RTX VR Ready!

1st Hard Disk

NOT REQUIRED

1st M.2 SSD Drive

1TB SAMSUNG 970 EVO M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3400MB/R, 2500MB/W)
FREE Assassin's Creed: Odyssey with select SAMSUNG NVMe SSDs!

DVD/BLU-RAY Drive

NOT REQUIRED

Power Supply

CORSAIR 550W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET

Power Cable

1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)

Processor Cooling

INTEL SOCKET 2011/2066 STANDARD CPU COOLER

Thermal Paste

STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING

Extra Case Fans

2x 120mm Black Case Fan (configured to extract from rear/roof)

Sound Card

ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

Wireless/Wired Networking

WIRELESS 802.11 AC1750 1,300Mbps/5GHz, 450Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD

USB/Thunderbolt Options

2 PORT (2 x TYPE A) USB 3.0 PCI-E CARD + STANDARD USB PORTS

Operating System

Genuine Windows 10 Professional 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [MUP-00003]

Operating System Language

United Kingdom - English Language

Windows Recovery Media

Windows 10 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Unlimited Downloads from Online Account

Office Software

FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft® Office® 365 (Operating System Required)

Anti-Virus

BullGuard™ Internet Security - 3 User, 1 Year

Browser

Microsoft® Edge (Windows 10 Only)

Keyboard & Mouse

PCS S300 USB MEDIA KEYBOARD

Warranty

3 Year Platinum Warranty (3 Year Collect & Return, 3 Year Parts, 3 Year labour)

Delivery

TIMED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND - MON-FRI, PRE-NOON

Build Time

Standard Build - Approximately 6 to 8 working days

Quantity

1

Price £2,928.00 including VAT and Delivery

Unique URL to re-configure : https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved...s//8ACEdnbkft/

[Peru Bob]

You should have a minimum 32 GB RAM, preferably 64 GB RAM to take full advantage of that processor.