New 3D/gaming PC - 800-1000 €

[blazh]

Hello,

I am new to this forum as well as building PC so I will have someone else build it for me. I am looking for help on building a new pc used for 3D modeling and occasionally gaming (Guild Wars 2, Borderlands 2, etc.) with a budget of 800-1000 €. I do not intend to reuse any parts from my current PC as it is very old.

I live in Slovenia and I would like to purchase parts online with the best offers and delivery conditions. Also, links provided from pcpartpicker might help too as long as I know what I'm buying (hopefully parts available worldwide).

I have read a few posts regarding OS - win 7 or 8.1 so I decided to go with 8.1 based on your thoughts/experience. Things I don't need are output devices.

Thank you for your time and help! I will try to reply as soon as possible in case you need any additional information.

Regards,
blazh

 

[MeteorsRaining]

Slovenia is close to Italy so I assume Amazon.it will ship to your region. Xeon will be very helpful in modelling, as will be Nvidia's CUDA cores. Also, you can upgrade from 8 to 8.1 for free.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V3 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor (€246.07 @ Amazon Italia)
Motherboard: ASRock B85 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (€61.79 @ Amazon Italia)
Memory: G.Skill Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (€76.49 @ Amazon Italia)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (€89.10 @ Amazon Italia)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (€52.17 @ Amazon Italia)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 770 2GB DirectCU II Video Card (€267.29 @ Amazon Italia)
Case: BitFenix Comrade ATX Mid Tower Case (€51.13 @ Amazon Italia)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (€54.81 @ Amazon Italia)
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/RSBS DVD/CD Writer (€25.76 @ Amazon Italia)
Other: Windows 8 64 Bit (€112.00)
Total: €1036.61
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-10-06 09:53 CEST+0200

 

[blazh]

Thank you MeteorsRaining and rockie_ for suggestions! Will take both into consideration.

Is there a significant difference between Xeon vs i5 CPU and G.Skill vs Corsair RAM?

Thank you again.
Regards

 

[MeteorsRaining]

In RAM no, in CPU, yes. Xeon and i5 both are quad core but Xeon has HyperThreads (HTs), which act like cores (known as virtual cores), and they help a lot in CPU intensive tasks like rendering and modelling. Also, Xeons are basically locked i7s w/o integrated graphics, better than locked i5 in every way, highly recommended for workstation builds.

 

[blazh]

Thank you for explaination and fast replies, both of you.

Best of luck!

Regards,
blazh

 

[MeteorsRaining]

Glad to help

 

[blazh]

Which one would you suggest? A few extra € would not hurt the budget.

 

[MeteorsRaining]

rockie_, please stop editing and deleting your replies, thanks.

 

[MeteorsRaining]

Not a healthy conduct, every opinion is valuable. Plus it confuses users. If you have given an opinion, keep up with it.