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AMD / Mini ITX Workstation - Advice Needed Plz

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  • 12-06-2018 10:12pm
    #1
    albadly
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭


    I'm the person jebidiah was asking for advice on behalf of in the AMD Zen discussion thread.

    Hi 😉

    I am hoping to build a Ryzen 7 PC for work. I primarily use Adobe Creative Cloud software (After Effects, Premiere, Pshop, Illustrator, etc) and would want the build to handle a bunch of that software running at the same time.

    I would also like it to be relatively compact (so mini ITX or Micro ATX) so that I can move it around easily, and if possible, quiet.

    I currently have an i7-4770k with 32gb of DDR3 @1600Mhz, and I regularly run close to the full 32GBs being in use (After Effects loads video previews into RAM for playback), so I could use 64GBs, but I am happy to sacrifice that for compactness.

    In terms of a GFX card, I do some gaming but not much, and I haven't found that GPU acceleration in the Adobe software makes much of a difference, so that's an area I think I can save money.



    I'm currently thinking:

    CPU
    AMD - Ryzen 7 2700X 3.7GHz 8-Core Processor

    Motherboard
    Gigabyte - GA-AB350N-Gaming WIFI (rev. 1.0) Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard

    Memory
    G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3200 Memory

    Seagate - IronWolf 10TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
    £264.20

    Video Card
    Palit - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB Dual Video Card

    Case
    Fractal Design - Define Nano S Mini ITX Desktop Case
    £57.99

    Power Supply
    Corsair - TXM Gold 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply



    I also have a 5TB 3.5" and a 512GB SSD to swap into it. And I was thinking of adding cooling (maybe something from Noctua?) once I see how the stock components work.

    Also, I don't plan on over-clocking (unless that makes a lot of sense to do?) and don't mind about RGB colours, etc.

    Thoughts on that build would be appreciated.

    I am always indecisive when it comes to big purchases, but the range of options for every component is truly. melting. my head.

    Thanks


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