Hey guys,
With both AMD and Nvidia launching their new line of GPUs soon I decided to start poking around PCPartPicker to come up with a render box that checks off most of the things on my list without breaking the bank. I'm wondering what you guys think as far as what tradeoffs to make if you don't want to go much over $2k. I plan to swap out the 2080Ti on this list with probably whatever the 3080Ti or equivalent is from Nvidia near the end of the year (won't be buying any of this stuff until then.) My current part list comes out to about $2280. Here's the PCPartPicker page:
Current part list below:
- Ryzen 3900x CPU
- Arctic Freezer II 120mm AIO
- 2080TI FE
- B450 MB
- 32MB DDR4-3600 CL16 RAM
- 1TB SSD
- 2TB HDD
- Phanteks P300A case
- 750W PS
My list of priorities:
- stay as close as possible to a $2k budget
- 2080Ti or better GPU
- reasonably fast AMD CPU
- at least 3TB of storage
- at least 32 GB of decent speed RAM
- good cooling
Do I have my priorities right for rendering? I'll be gaming on it as well but I think this is overkill for that anyway.
Edit: Decided to tweak this slightly and add a cheap, but still good AIO for cooling. This cooler is cheaper than a lot of air coolers while still performing well.
With both AMD and Nvidia launching their new line of GPUs soon I decided to start poking around PCPartPicker to come up with a render box that checks off most of the things on my list without breaking the bank. I'm wondering what you guys think as far as what tradeoffs to make if you don't want to go much over $2k. I plan to swap out the 2080Ti on this list with probably whatever the 3080Ti or equivalent is from Nvidia near the end of the year (won't be buying any of this stuff until then.) My current part list comes out to about $2280. Here's the PCPartPicker page:
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Current part list below:
- Ryzen 3900x CPU
- Arctic Freezer II 120mm AIO
- 2080TI FE
- B450 MB
- 32MB DDR4-3600 CL16 RAM
- 1TB SSD
- 2TB HDD
- Phanteks P300A case
- 750W PS
My list of priorities:
- stay as close as possible to a $2k budget
- 2080Ti or better GPU
- reasonably fast AMD CPU
- at least 3TB of storage
- at least 32 GB of decent speed RAM
- good cooling
Do I have my priorities right for rendering? I'll be gaming on it as well but I think this is overkill for that anyway.
Edit: Decided to tweak this slightly and add a cheap, but still good AIO for cooling. This cooler is cheaper than a lot of air coolers while still performing well.
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