Yuriman
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Looking to put together a home business machine for my wife. She's considering migrating from an old MacBook Pro to Windows for cost and customizability reasons. She uses her machine to work with high resolution canvasss, but was really getting by alright with her 2012 BMP.
Here's what I've come up with:
PCPartPicker Part List
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor ($194.00 @ Walmart)
Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty B450 Gaming-ITX/ac Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Team T-FORCE DARK Z 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-2666 Memory ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($149.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: PNY GeForce GTX 1650 4 GB XLR8 Gaming Overclocked Edition Video Card ($134.99 @ Walmart)
Power Supply: EVGA GD (2019) 500 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply ($39.98 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($96.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $805.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-11-29 07:47 EST-0500
Some thoughts:
-She'll have an external HDD running backups, and most of her work will also be sync'd with a cloud service. I feel comfortable running a single hard drive, but couldn't convince myself the Intel 660P was worth saving $80 for even so. I'm not yet sold on the reliability of QLC for moderate workloads. Is the 970 worth the extra money in our use case? Is it the right choice for this workload?
-The vast majority of her workflow will not benefit from an external GPU. However, it also looks like a Ryzen 3600 is enough better than an equivalently priced 9600K as to make it the better choice, and the GTX 1650 looks to have the best feature set.
-I've read that higher frequency RAM helps Ryzen a lot. However, the price really jumps quite a bit for higher frequency RAM if I want to avoid high voltage chips. Given a choice between 1.2v 2666, 1.35v 3200 and spending another $80 or so to get 1.2v 3200, what would you do?
-Thoughts on the power supply? Any highly efficient (Gold+ or better) units you'd recommend instead that won't break the bank?
Here's what I've come up with:
PCPartPicker Part List
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor ($194.00 @ Walmart)
Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty B450 Gaming-ITX/ac Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Team T-FORCE DARK Z 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-2666 Memory ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($149.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: PNY GeForce GTX 1650 4 GB XLR8 Gaming Overclocked Edition Video Card ($134.99 @ Walmart)
Power Supply: EVGA GD (2019) 500 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply ($39.98 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($96.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $805.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-11-29 07:47 EST-0500
Some thoughts:
-She'll have an external HDD running backups, and most of her work will also be sync'd with a cloud service. I feel comfortable running a single hard drive, but couldn't convince myself the Intel 660P was worth saving $80 for even so. I'm not yet sold on the reliability of QLC for moderate workloads. Is the 970 worth the extra money in our use case? Is it the right choice for this workload?
-The vast majority of her workflow will not benefit from an external GPU. However, it also looks like a Ryzen 3600 is enough better than an equivalently priced 9600K as to make it the better choice, and the GTX 1650 looks to have the best feature set.
-I've read that higher frequency RAM helps Ryzen a lot. However, the price really jumps quite a bit for higher frequency RAM if I want to avoid high voltage chips. Given a choice between 1.2v 2666, 1.35v 3200 and spending another $80 or so to get 1.2v 3200, what would you do?
-Thoughts on the power supply? Any highly efficient (Gold+ or better) units you'd recommend instead that won't break the bank?
