Desktop for Blender €600-€700

mp3guy

Sister needs a new PC for doing 3D rendering on Blender. So need the best bang for buck given budget constraints. Was looking at AWD-IT, can I build better though

Just need the PC, no monitor required. Also need Windows 10.

Subcomandante Marcos

mp3guy wrote: »

Sister needs a new PC for doing 3D rendering on Blender. So need the best bang for buck given budget constraints. Was looking at AWD-IT, can I build better though?

Yeah you can build better.

Ryzen 7 2700 self build would come in at a very decent price right now.

mp3guy

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

Yeah you can build better.

Ryzen 7 2700 self build would come in at a very decent price right now.

That's what I was thinking. Hoping to fit what I need into micro ATX too.

sunny2004

2700 or 2700x. Any thoughts ?

K.O.Kiki

Either get 2700 + cheaper motherboard, or 3600 + cheap X570.
2700X not worth it at its current price.

Subcomandante Marcos

sunny2004 wrote: »

2700 or 2700x. Any thoughts ?

The x isn't worth the extra tbh. Not for blender.

Subcomandante Marcos

mp3guy wrote: »

That's what I was thinking. Hoping to fit what I need into micro ATX too.

A 2700 on something like an msi B450 Pro-M would be very good value for money in an mATX form factor. Gives you 4 dimm slots too so lots of options for ram configuration.
You'd get those two for about £245 on Amazon at the minute, throw on 16gb ram, a decent psu, an SSD and a big HDD for storage, a case and a GPU and you'd have a great system for the purpose for less than 700.

K.O.Kiki

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700 3.2 GHz 8-Core Processor (£181.36 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: MSI B450 Gaming Plus ATX AM4 Motherboard (£79.90 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Patriot Viper 4 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£69.48 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Patriot Burst 480 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£45.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£47.49 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon RX 570 4 GB PULSE Video Card (£120.79 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Case: RIOTORO CR480 ATX Mid Tower Case (£42.70 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: be quiet! System Power 9 500 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£48.03 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £635.74
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-08-05 14:45 BST+0100

AFAIK Blender can utilize the GPU for rendering with OpenCL.

mp3guy

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700 3.2 GHz 8-Core Processor (£181.36 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: MSI B450 Gaming Plus ATX AM4 Motherboard (£79.90 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Patriot Viper 4 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£69.48 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Patriot Burst 480 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£45.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£47.49 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon RX 570 4 GB PULSE Video Card (£120.79 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Case: RIOTORO CR480 ATX Mid Tower Case (£42.70 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: be quiet! System Power 9 500 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£48.03 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £635.74
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-08-05 14:45 BST+0100

AFAIK Blender can utilize the GPU for rendering with OpenCL.

Thanks! Stock cooler good to go?

K.O.Kiki

mp3guy wrote: »

Thanks! Stock cooler good to go?

Stock cooler is ok, but Arctic Freezer 33/34 or DeepCool Gammax 400 are only ~£20 - good upgrade to go for.

mp3guy

All ordered, had to pick a different HDD as that one was only available second hand on Amazon. Also couldn't find that case on Amazon but figured I'll get a slightly nicer one;

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700 3.2 GHz 8-Core Processor (£189.49 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: MSI B450 Gaming Plus ATX AM4 Motherboard (£84.28 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Patriot Viper 4 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£69.04 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Patriot Burst 480 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£45.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Toshiba 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£55.80 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon RX 570 4 GB NITRO+ Video Card (£129.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Corsair SPEC-DELTA RGB ATX Mid Tower Case (£54.95 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: be quiet! System Power 9 500 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£48.03 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £677.57
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-08-06 13:28 BST+0100

Will update when built!

mp3guy

All built, nice and easy! Case is very good, easy to work with.

Subcomandante Marcos

Nice RGB casse for the price alright.