Building a gaming Pc

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Jonny

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Well a mac actually! Hold on, hold on, i'll be running windows on it.

Anyway apart from being told to not get a mac, would this be any good for a gaming pc. (Specifically to play Ark Survial and the Sims 4, and be good for photoshop on the mac side).

It would be a 5,1 mac pro.

Processor
3.46GHz 12 Core Xeon X5690 (2010 System) - £1,950.00

Memory
64GB (8x8GB) - £400.00

PCI-e Slot 1 / GPU
Nvidia GTX TITAN X 12GB (+ Nvidia GT120 for boot screen, requires OS X 10.10) - £995.00

PCI-e Slot 2
Angelbird wrk for Mac 256GB SSD PCI-E - £215.00

PCI-e Slot 3
Angelbird wrk for Mac 256GB SSD PCI-E - £215.00

PCI-e Slot 4
USB 3.0 4 Port PCI-E - £40.00

HDD1
Toshiba 2TB HDD 7200RPM SATA 3.5" - £75

Or is this overkill?
I can get a 3.46GHz 6 Core Xeon X5690 (2010 System) for £1,070.00
which would limit my memory to 32GB at £200

I would have an SSD each for mac and windows and then the 2TB as extra space.

Thanks for the help
 


My daughter plays sims 4 on our 2013 iMac, so I reckon that rig will handle it, like. And probably be able to run a small country in the background.
 
The sims I know should be fine. My wife currently plays on a Mac mini. Ark however is another beast.
It's the number of cores and it being a Xeon that throws me. Will 12 cores help in playing games or do games not utilise them?
 
Very much overkill.

  • You can get a cheaper CPU that is actually faster for games.
  • You wont need anywhere near 64GB of RAM for games. Unless you are stitching huge panoramas that have high bit-depth you wont need that much for photoshop either.
  • What motherboard are you getting as you are using a lot of PCIe bus lanes
  • Photoshop works just fine on Windows, has done since version 3
  • Why do you need an extra USB 3 card, does the motherboard not have it's own?
  • Spend half this amount and get a new system in 4 years with the other half.
  • What PSU are you getting as it's an often overlooked yet important component that can kill your system if not properly selected.
  • Ditch the Mac part.. saving money and bother in the process.
 
Very much overkill.

  • You can get a cheaper CPU that is actually faster for games.
  • You wont need anywhere near 64GB of RAM for games. Unless you are stitching huge panoramas that have high bit-depth you wont need that much for photoshop either.
  • What motherboard are you getting as you are using a lot of PCIe bus lanes
  • Photoshop works just fine on Windows, has done since version 3
  • Why do you need an extra USB 3 card, does the motherboard not have it's own?
  • Spend half this amount and get a new system in 4 years with the other half.
  • What PSU are you getting as it's an often overlooked yet important component that can kill your system if not properly selected.
  • Ditch the Mac part.. saving money and bother in the process.
They're very sexy though.
 
Obviously I know the sims 4 will work. My wife runs it on a mac mini at the minute!
Its obviously a workstation and work will be able to sort it out. Thats why it has to be a mac, I'm just trying to spec it in a way that works for other things! I'm mental but I'm not going to pay £4000 just to play a computer game!
I was unsure of the Xeon processors as a gaming processor, hence why I asked did I need 12 cores to make up for the fact they were not a regular one.
It would be a old refurbished mac pro which doesn't come with usb 3.
I will be using huge files on photoshop.
I'm currently playing Ark on said mac mini and it looks like when i played doom in the 90's so anything would be an upgrade.
I only stuck the prices on so people could tell me that its way over priced for the mac parts and to look around.
What lighting would you recommend? I wouldn't have thought that would have mattered. But I've got the energy saver ones, do they interfere with the ram drive?
 
Obviously I know the sims 4 will work. My wife runs it on a mac mini at the minute!
Its obviously a workstation and work will be able to sort it out. Thats why it has to be a mac, I'm just trying to spec it in a way that works for other things! I'm mental but I'm not going to pay £4000 just to play a computer game!
I was unsure of the Xeon processors as a gaming processor, hence why I asked did I need 12 cores to make up for the fact they were not a regular one.
It would be a old refurbished mac pro which doesn't come with usb 3.
I will be using huge files on photoshop.
I'm currently playing Ark on said mac mini and it looks like when i played doom in the 90's so anything would be an upgrade.
I only stuck the prices on so people could tell me that its way over priced for the mac parts and to look around.
What lighting would you recommend? I wouldn't have thought that would have mattered. But I've got the energy saver ones, do they interfere with the ram drive?
I think the Sims 4 will work, marra. Don't fret.
 
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