- Sep 3, 2013
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Approximate Purchase Date: this week
Budget Range: $1800 is the ceiling. Before taxes, not including shipping. But hoping to ultimately spend less than that.
System Usage from Most to Least Important: professional development of 3D computer game, playing current-gen 3D games and VR games
Are you buying a monitor: No. Already have 3.
Parts to Upgrade: RAM (to 32GB), SSD (500GB or more), MB, CPU. PSU if needed.
Do you need to buy OS: Yes. Windows 10.
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Alza.cz (in english) But you can use any major US eshop for prices info.
Location: Czechia. I will be buying the parts via local eshops.
Parts Preferences: none
Overclocking: No
SLI or Crossfire: Not currently or planned. Maybe if there is a major advantage.
Your Monitor Resolution: 2 x 1920x1080 and 1 x 1280x720
My current system:
MB: MSI B85-G41 PC Mate
CPU: Intel i5-4460 (3.2 GHz)
RAM: 16GB (2x8 DDR3 1600MHz CL11)
GPU: nVidia GTX 1060 Ti 6GB
Storage: 2 SATA2 and 2 SATA3 HDDs, about 7TB total.
Oculus Rift cv1 VR - ideally using 3 USB3 slots
In the new configuration I need:
I am a game developer currently under long-term contract and my current system is both getting too slow and starting to fail meeting HW requirements for gamedev software I need to use.
I need to upgrade RAM to at least 32GB and add SSD to the system.
My current MB does not have a nVME driver/port, so I have to upgrade that for SSD and I thought I'll do major CPU upgrade with it if it makes sense with today options.
I also play 3D games and VR games on the same machine.
I am not necessarily looking for spending the whole budget. Only if there are any good value for money options.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you very much.
R.
Budget Range: $1800 is the ceiling. Before taxes, not including shipping. But hoping to ultimately spend less than that.
System Usage from Most to Least Important: professional development of 3D computer game, playing current-gen 3D games and VR games
Are you buying a monitor: No. Already have 3.
Parts to Upgrade: RAM (to 32GB), SSD (500GB or more), MB, CPU. PSU if needed.
Do you need to buy OS: Yes. Windows 10.
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Alza.cz (in english) But you can use any major US eshop for prices info.
Location: Czechia. I will be buying the parts via local eshops.
Parts Preferences: none
Overclocking: No
SLI or Crossfire: Not currently or planned. Maybe if there is a major advantage.
Your Monitor Resolution: 2 x 1920x1080 and 1 x 1280x720
My current system:
MB: MSI B85-G41 PC Mate
CPU: Intel i5-4460 (3.2 GHz)
RAM: 16GB (2x8 DDR3 1600MHz CL11)
GPU: nVidia GTX 1060 Ti 6GB
Storage: 2 SATA2 and 2 SATA3 HDDs, about 7TB total.
Oculus Rift cv1 VR - ideally using 3 USB3 slots
In the new configuration I need:
- 32GB RAM
- reasonably fast SSD - at least 500 GB capacity
- at least 2 USB2s and 4 USB3s. I currently do not use USB-C for anything, but it can't hurt for future
- at least 4 SATA connectors on MB (can be 2 SATA2 and 2 SATA3) for current HDDs I want to keep
- CPU mainly with high single-thread performance. I am mainly using "single-thread" software. I do not use any software that utilizes more than 4 threads, so any CPU threads / cores above that will be wasted.
I am a game developer currently under long-term contract and my current system is both getting too slow and starting to fail meeting HW requirements for gamedev software I need to use.
I need to upgrade RAM to at least 32GB and add SSD to the system.
My current MB does not have a nVME driver/port, so I have to upgrade that for SSD and I thought I'll do major CPU upgrade with it if it makes sense with today options.
I also play 3D games and VR games on the same machine.
I am not necessarily looking for spending the whole budget. Only if there are any good value for money options.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you very much.
R.
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