DELL TOWER 5810 worth it? vs. New Build

[marxin]

Hi All!

I have been researching for building a new computer for 3d modelling in Rhino and SketchUp, and Rendering with V-ray. I also make use of Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. I have also recently taken on Z-Brush with a Cintiq, and Cinema 4d.

My old Dell Inspiron 7720 is crying out loud (...) and I was looking to get a Dell Tower (5810) because of the processor/ram/hdd-sdd/video card combinations and the option to access the workstation remotely, but its kind of pricey and I am still trying to understand all the forums around bus/clock speed and video card performance.

I have seen reviews that argue for the 5810 dell tower while others don’t recommend it. Any help would be much appreciated! I am trying to navigate these mountains of info to get some answer!

My max budget would be £1500 ideally but could stretch it to £2000 before tax. Any suggestions on which processor, graphics card, ssd/hdd, and amount of RAM should I get would be much appreciated!


This is my guess build maybe this would help:

Base:
Dell Precision T5810 CTO Base
Processor:
Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-1620 v3 (4C, 3.5GHz, 10M, 140W)
Video Card:
NVIDIA® Quadro® K620 2GB
Memory:
32G 2133MHz DDR4 (4x8GB) RDIMM ECC
Hard Drive:
500GB 3.5inch Serial ATA (7,200 Rpm) Hard Drive

not sure what sata and raid means...

£1,586.75 before tax

Thank you for reading!

United Kingdom

 

[Calculagator]

If you can get a good sale, the dell workstations can be worth it, but you end up paying quite a bit for convenience.
I put together a quick part list with the same and similar parts:
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/7dYYHN
The parts you list in the DELL cost somewhere around £1171.6. You have to decide how much your time is worth. You can get a more powerful computer for less money, but you will have to do considerable research. Building a computer yourself is also fairly time consuming. The dell is designed to be good for an engineering firm or similar business where they need things to just work without any tweaking and minimal down time. They don't mind paying an extra 20% to make that happen.

Personally, I would recommend either building yourself, or buying a used workstation. Either would be a huge upgrade from what you are currently using. The same companies that spend a lot extra to have the best hardware and support also often dump their used workstations and sell them for a considerable discount.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-z820-2-Xeon-E5-2670-2-6GHz-16-Core-128GB-RAM-200GB-SSD-9TB-HD-QUADRO-K5000-/172290582169?hash=item281d51a699:g:rsUAAOSw~oFXJdqZ
Something like this costs more but is WAY more powerful.
Here's a much cheaper one that is still more powerful than the new Dell:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dell-Precision-T3600-XEON-E5-2670-Octa-Core-64Gb-ram-128gb-ssd-500gb-quadro-4000-/152156048921?hash=item236d350e19:g:lLMAAOSwoBtW4C5r

 

[arnauerola]

I recently bought three of those and I have some performance issues. As you don't require large amount of RAM, probably is better you go for a desktop computer with an i7 or a smaller workstation as they recommended before.