Okay, so it's finally time to look into buying a new workstation/gaming rig for the home office. I have set a budget of £1600.00 but this can be stretched if needed but ideally 1600 is the target. Main uses include; Gaming (CS:GO mainly but looking at other titles like BF5..) Photoshop & Lightroom (work related) Office Suite Adobe Suite (inc. Premiere and Dreamweaver) Requirements; Base station only, no screen, keyboard/mouse required. 500gb m.2 drive as primary drive. Minimum 16gb ram Minimum 4C/8T processor due to work multitasking. USB3.1/Thunderbolt due to loading large files onto disk. Overclocking (not a necessity as reliability will far outweigh slight performance increase) Must be quiet, so AIO coolers/watercooling an option. GFX must be able to run GSGO comfortably but also run BF5 or similar. I hope this gives you all the information needed and thanks in advance.
I've picked out 2 rigs: Workstation focused threadripper build with 1920X and gtx1070ti £1599.08 Graphics focused with a 2700x and rtx2070 £1648.39 I've tried to keep it to things in stock (but you may shop elsewhere) apart from the m.2 drive which only realised now isn't. I've not included hdd's as have presumed you have some to carry over?
To be honest, the second graphics focused spec looks much more suitable for the additional £50. Thanks for the help.
You could save yourself £70 on that spec by not getting the Corsair cooler. The 2700X comes with a decent cooler in the Wraith Prism.
Noise is however a concern as the PC will be left running 24/7 in our unused bedroom and I've grown out of putting up with trying to sleep while fans are screaming. I think the AIO should help with that.
A beefy air cooler will be quieter than an AIO. Noctua and Be Quiet are the usual go to coolers, all in one water coolers tend to make a relatively large amount of pump noise. If you leave it rendering overnight any system will wail at you.
The computer is left on overnight purely to make backups of online servers. To be honest, I may go the air cooling route as I will not be looking to overclock the cpu considerably.
For those tasks Threadripper would be a massive waste of money, as even the 8700K wipes the floor with the lot of them. All of those use cases demand high single-core speed over more cores, so the 'optimum' CPU would be something like the i9- 9900k (or its upcoming Xeon-E equivalent if you want ECC).
Knock a fiver off here or there by shopping around and it'll fit into the budget: My basket at Overclockers UK: 1 x Intel Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - OEM= £398.99 1 x Palit GeForce RTX 2070 Dual 8192MB PCI-Express Graphics Card= £458.99 1 x Super Flower Leadex Platinum 750W Fully Modular "80 Plus Platinum" Power Supply - Black= £99.95 1 x Samsung 970 EVO Polaris 500GB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive= £109.99 1 x Corsair Hydro Series H100i PRO RGB Performance Liquid Cooler - 240mm= £114.95 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD432G3= £209.99 1 x MSI Z390 MAG TOMAHAWK Intel Z390 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £149.99 1 x Lian-Li PC-O11 Air Midi Tower - Black Window= £79.99 Total: £1,636.94 (includes shipping: £14.10)
This would be my choice if I had a budget like that, and wanted a mixture of workstation and gaming. https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/K8ZT3b Total: £1606.45
