Hello,
I am planning to buy a new PC. I am using it to work in 3D, rendering, etc... So it is not just for gaming. But I would like to Know if Threadripper would give good results for gaming as well.
- Threadripper 1950x. 16 cores
- MSI X399 SLI PLUS
- RAM 32Gb (4x8Gb). G. Skill Ripjaws DDR4 3000.
- Noctua NH-U9TR4-SP3
- Tacens Mars 750W silver.
- SSD 850 EVO 500Gb (I am reusing this one)
- HDD 4Tb. Seagate
- Nox Hummer ZN USB 3.0
- GTX 1080 Gigabute Windforce / 1080 TI
Do you think it is a good PC build? Any components that could be a better choice with the threadripper?
RAM is too expensive right now. I will upgrade to 64 GB when/if prices drop down. Can this be a problem?
Not sure if 1080TI is worthh the price difference.
Thanks!
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If I were you I'd get a better power supply. 750W is good enough wattage is long as you aren't planning on using SLI, but for a computer as expensive as yours you should get something that's good quality and reliable. I'd recommend this one, it has 10 year warranty and gotten good reviews:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817438093&cm_re=supernova-_-17-438-093-_-Product
I don't know enough about Threadrippers to give good advice on RAM.
But there is a similar Corsair with 10 years guarranty as well
https://www.pccomponentes.com/corsair-rm750x-750w-80-plus-gold-modular-blanca
Is it worth waiting till January to buy the PC, just in case Nvidia or AMD/intel anouince something new?
i would go for the i7 8th generatoin 8700k with a ssd .m2
I already have a SSD, is it worth to upgrade to an m.2?
I am also considering the 8700k, but the difference in perfomance while rendering is huge, not in gaming.
You might want to wait until January 7th for NVidia's CES 2018 presentation. They released Titan V based on Volta architecture this December, and if we're lucky they could announce details of GTX 2080 also based on that same architecture any day now.
For processors there's not anything worth waiting for.
I put a random one with good reviews
It caught Intel off guard, and they scrambled to see how high they could clock a die that had been intended to be only for Xeon server CPUs in order to counter with Sky Lake-X. For that matter, it caught AMD off guard, too, as it wasn't a planned product until some engineers said, look what we can do by mixing the stuff that we had intended for Ryzen and Epyc.
Here's your power supply:
https://www.pccomponentes.com/seasonic-focus-750w-80-plus-gold-modular
EVGA and Corsair have both been caught doing some dodgy things with their power supplies, so while they sell a lot of good units, you don't necessarily know for certain what you're getting. Seasonic actually samples their power supply units for reviews by having a major e-tailer pick a random unit from stock and ship it to the reviewer, so you know that you're seeing a review of the same unit you can buy yourself.
There's nothing terribly important coming soon in either CPUs or GPUs unless you're in to integrated graphics--which you aren't. The next generation of GPUs is waiting on GDDR6 memory, which is supposed to ramp up production over the course of the first half of next year. It's plausible that Nvidia will launch a consumer Volta card in a few months, but if they do, it will be a paper launch like the GeForce GTX 1080 had and several months before you can find the cards at MSRP because there isn't enough memory for them.
Without a dedicated rendering machine, threadripper is the best pick.
In other words, it will game just fine, and if more games begin to scale heavily past 8 threads in the future, then you're way ahead of the game already. Get it. I'm sure you won't be disappointed.
As for the case, my favorite case I've ever built in is the Phanteks Enthoo Pro: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811854003&cm_re=phanteks_enthoo_pro-_-11-854-003-_-Product
It's simple without all that excessive RGB that people seem to love these days, and it is a high quality case. It IS a tad expensive though. Thankfully, the case is one area you can skimp on a bit if you like. Just look for one with extra fan attachments and front USB 3.0 and audio, and you should be good to go. Some of my favorite case manufacturers: Lian Li, Corsair, Antec, and Phanteks.
My last build I tried a Corsair. It was a nice case to look at, and had a lot of little extras like rubber guards around the cable management ports. But it also had some boneheaded design moves, like needing to disassemble half the case to clean the fan filters, and a lot of plastic bits and plastic snap-together tabs that I am afraid won't hold up well over time. It looks slick though, white case with all white LEDs inside. I ended up repurposing it to another lighter duty rig and rebuilding my computer with another Lian Li.