Building a $2000 PC (and studio) from Scratch
As a lot of you might know that I am building a new PC which costs around $2000 (a bit more than that actually). So, here’s why and how I am planning to build it.
Why?
I am taking up a project that needs over 45+ hours of video footage processing and rendering. My current PC is a dual core and my current graphics card is also not up to the mark, at this point you might as why I didn’t go with a Macbook Pro or iMac in the first place. Well, the answer is easy, a Macbook pro or iMac is not nearly as much as powerful as a custom build $2000 PC.
Few More Things
It took me almost three months to figure out what I want and how I am going to execute the whole build. I went through a lot of PC Mags and a lot of documentations, benchmarks and price to performance ratios to find what I was looking for in the first place. You’ll get to know what I am talking about in a bit.
Planning
Planning is a crucial part in any kind of thing, if your planning isn’t good enough, the whole thing will fall like a house of cards.
I wanted to build a cheap but powerful computer which performs well even under heavy workload. Here’s my first draft configuration, it’s a fairly simple Skylake config.
- i5 6600k
- Gigabyte H110M-DS2 DDR4 Motherboard
- 8 GB Kingston HyperX Fury DDR4 RAM
- WD Blue 1 TB HDD
- Kingston UV300 120GB SSD for OS
- Deepcool Frostwin v2.0 Cooler
- Corsair VS550 PSU
- MSI Gamin GTX 1060 6GB
- Circle EPIC gaming cabinet
As you can see, the config is pretty basic, and does well for the price. Although, I was not quite satisfied with it because of the Motherboard, that was almost unacceptable for me, but this draft stayed with me for at least 2 months until I decided to turn the heat up a notch.
Well, that calls for another post. See you soon.