Computer for Radiology

[Paradoxx54]

I'm building a PC for my uncle that is a radiologist. Right now we are trying to decide what components are appropriate for his needs as he is on a budget of $1300. The software he uses has a minimum requirement of an i5. He needs a 1TB SSD and a 2TB hard drive and a GPU. My only problem is that we both don't know how much GPU power he needs. I'm thinking something in the 970 range but I don't want to shoot to low and he is willing to raise his budget if he has to get a good computer for his work. I'm also kind of torn on the motherboard as I don't know if I should go on the low end of $70-$100 or go a little higher than that. Any help would be appreciated thanks!

 

[turkey3_scratch]

It'd help more if you know more about how much (if at all) that software he uses for radiology utilizes the GPU. For all we know, it may be completely CPU-oriented. What does the software recommend for a GPU? If it doesn't use much or any GPU power, more money can be put into the CPU.

Is there any way you can find out?

 

[DarkTerbear]

His applications are workstation grade. He needs a Tesla or Quadro GPU, not Geforce.
Here is a build:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/4hZtP6
What I don't understand is why he needs 1 TB of SSD storage.
I would go for 250GB of SSD storage and 3TB of hard drives in RAID 10 or 5 or 6
The Xeon is workstation grade and will tear through many tasks at once.
16 GB of RAM should serve you well.
The Quadro K1200 is a 4GB workstation card. I'm not sure why he needs a GPU, but feel free to switch it to something else.
The 212 EVO should keep your non-overclockable CPU cool.
Define R5 is a silent case with great airflow.
Decent motherboard.
Hard drive is professional and surveillance grade drive.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

I wouldn't buy the RM with it's mixture of Taiwanese, Japanese, and Chinese capacitors. A radiology machine needs something more reliable. And only 1600Mhz RAM is supported on that motherboard.

 

[DarkTerbear]

I wouldn't buy the RM with it's mixture of Taiwanese, Japanese, and Chinese capacitors. A radiology machine needs something more reliable. And only 1600Mhz RAM is supported on that motherboard.

We can always drop down to 1600Mhz and get a EVGA G2 PSU

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Yep that'd be a plan.

 

[USAFRet]

Other people...his colleagues...what do they use?

What system, what GPU?

 

[geofelt]

My guess is that the most important component might be a 4k resolution monitor.
If the software required a particular graphics component, I would expect that to be a prominent requirement.

I suggest a skylake i5 which has integrated graphics sufficient to output to a 4k monitor.
That gives you a start and you can then see if a discrete graphics card is necessary, and how strong it would need to be.

On the motherboard, a mid range Z170 M-ATX should be more than enough and allow for future upgrades.

 

[Paradoxx54]

Thanks for all the responses and just to reply to some I'm in the process of finding out what the program is more oriented on I just need to get a hold of him. DarkTerbear made a good suggestion going with the workstation. I'm not sure why he needs such a huge SSD, but he probably knows more than I do. To address some early statement about upgrading he has told me that he has no interest in doing that and would prefer to only have to open the computer for cleaning purposes. Thanks for all your help guys I really appreciate it!