3D Animation/Rendering, Video/Photo/Audio Editing PC Build

[johnreydegamo]

I'm not a gamer, I'm only playing NBA 2k and other games like Mafia and GTA
I'm a multimedia arts student, we are using Autodesk Maya, Adobe Flash/Photoshop/After Effects.
My final budget is $1500 (₱75000)

CPU AMD Ryzen 7 1700
GPU Gigabyte AORUS RX 580 8GB GDDR5 Gaming (GV-RX580AORUS-8GD)
MoBo Gigabyte AB350 Gaming 3
RAM Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 16GB Single DDR4 2400 (BLS16G4D240FSB / BLS16G4D240FSE)
HDD and SSD Seagate Barracuda 1TB ST1000DM010 (SATA 6Gb/s) Hard Drive and Samsung 850 Evo 250GB ssd
PSU Seasonic M12II-520 EVO 520w 80Plus Bronze Fully Modular
Monitor LG 23MP67HQ 23 inch IPS Bezel-less LED Monitor Vga Hdmi

Some $46 Mid Tower Case, $17 Optical Drive, $118 Windows 10 Home, and $7 Keyboard

Total of $1472 (₱73,735.00)

Are there any downgrades/upgrades possible to maximize the $1500?

 

[the nerd 389]

You should consider getting a WD Red instead for the storage drive. It's much quieter, and as such, makes audio work much easier.

 

[spikeysonic]

was lookign for somethgin similar, could abnyone advise on this?

Looking for a work station for:

Video Editing with the likes of Premier, After Effects, Solidworks, Inventor, Rhino, Maya, 3d Studio Max, Vector Works, Z-Brush, Mudbox, Photoshop, Indesign, Audition, V Ray, keyshot


so CAD, 3d Animation, various, Rendering, Processing/ Transcoding video,


Currently Im looking at toss ups between GTX 1070ti (mainly as thats what www.pcspecialist.co.uk has in custom set ups) or GTX 1080it / Quadro 2000 (doubt I could afford more)


Plus the I7 - 7820 or I9 - 7900 or one of the AMD ryzen threadrippers (which one would be recomended?)

Trying to keep the budget inc VAT £2600 - £2850

Ideally I would like a pair of Seagate Barracuda Pro 4TB in a Raid 1 Mirror. I may be able to get this in a month or two after for storage


I heard you can get legit Office keys £30 ish and you down load MS Office and Student 2019 from MS website thus saving £90 + which could be put towards the better processor. Know anything about that?

 

[the nerd 389]

was lookign for somethgin similar, could abnyone advise on this?

Looking for a work station for:

Video Editing with the likes of Premier, After Effects, Solidworks, Inventor, Rhino, Maya, 3d Studio Max, Vector Works, Z-Brush, Mudbox, Photoshop, Indesign, Audition, V Ray, keyshot


so CAD, 3d Animation, various, Rendering, Processing/ Transcoding video,


Currently Im looking at toss ups between GTX 1070ti (mainly as thats what www.pcspecialist.co.uk has in custom set ups) or GTX 1080it / Quadro 2000 (doubt I could afford more)


Plus the I7 - 7820 or I9 - 7900 or one of the AMD ryzen threadrippers (which one would be recomended?)

Trying to keep the budget inc VAT £2600 - £2850

Ideally I would like a pair of Seagate Barracuda Pro 4TB in a Raid 1 Mirror. I may be able to get this in a month or two after for storage


I heard you can get legit Office keys £30 ish and you down load MS Office and Student 2019 from MS website thus saving £90 + which could be put towards the better processor. Know anything about that?

You may want to start a new thread for this. There is a lot to discuss here, as getting a true workstation setup at this time is a bit of a complicated subject.

The recommended setup is highly dependent on which programs you'll be running the most. Overall, the HEDT options from Intel are really the only ones that would not be part of the discussion at this point. Quicksync is the main reason to go with Intel in a workstation at the moment, and that requires integrated graphics on the CPU.

For the CPU:
- ThreadRipper is decent, but expensive. Not recommended under 3k for a workstation unless you're building a dev box.
- Ryzen is solid for price/performance, but isn't good for Premier or After Effects.
- The 9900K is a good option for most of those programs, but is more expensive.

For the GPU:
- The 1070Ti is solid for Maya, 3DS Max, and a few others but falls hard in Solidworks.
- The Quadro P2000 is good for Solidworks, but falls hard in others for the price. Actually, the P1000 beats the 2080 Ti in this program...
- The Titan Xp can do both, but the price....

Regarding storage, Premier will eat spinning disks for breakfast. I'd recommend a large SSD main drive or smallish Optane scratch drive (280 GB) for it.