Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “$6000 Gaming/Workstation PC Setup”.
Hey, what’s up folks how’s it going. This is waj hope you guys are all doing well and in this article we’re going to be talking about a 6 000 gaming, slash productivity, setup 6 000, including the actual monitor and the pc rig itself. Now, in terms of the pc rig, it’s going to be a very powerful and special one. It’S going to contain the ryzen threadripper 1950x cpu. It has 16 physical cores with 32 threads. We’Re going to have also in this pc two gtx 1080 ti’s in sli configuration and uh. The monitor that we’re gon na be using is a 38 inch. Curved ultra wide screen display from lg has a native resolution of 3840 by 1600. So a lot of stuff over here we’re going to take a look at the actual benchmarks for the cpu itself and see how the 1950x compares against some cpus from intel and some lower budget amd chips and we’re going to obviously see how a 38 inch ultra Widescreen gaming experience is going to be with two gtx 1080 ti’s in sli configuration.
So if you’re interested – let’s get right into it. Now this monster of a pc is going to be based around the amd ryzen threadripper 1950x. It’S a 16 core chip with 32 threads. It retails for just under thousand dollars a usc, which is certainly not the most cheapest cpu you can get, but considering intel’s core i9 7960x, which is also a 16 core 32 thread cpu retails for about eighteen hundred dollars, almost 800 dollars more than the 1950 x.
From amd, so amd is certainly giving you a little bit more bang for the dollar, considering the intel counterpart. Obviously, in terms of core frequencies, the 1950x is a set to 3.4 gigahertz and it can precision boost up to 4 gigahertz. In addition to that, it also has 200 megahertz of xfr, so it can potentially boost up to 4.2 gigahertz at a stock setting. But if you do decide to overclock because it does have an unlocked multiplier, you can go way beyond there. If you have some extreme water cooling capabilities in terms of cash, we have a 40 megabytes in total, comprised of 32 megabytes of level, three eight megabytes of level two and one megabyte of level one. You also have a 60 pci express a 3.0 lane, so plenty of bandwidth for high performance, multiple gpu setups. You also have quad channel ddr4 memory, so there’s plenty of room for any kind of server or a workstation great pc that you’re gon na eventually upgrade into uh using this platform. Now, just like the cpus, the amd x399 chipset is extremely versatile and powerful.
We’Re gon na be using the x399 designer ex from gigabyte. This is probably one of the most fully featured x 399 platforms that you’re gon na get. It supports pretty much all of the current modern connection. Interfaces in terms of usb 3.1 usb c triple channel ultra fast m.2 connectivity, plenty of pcie slots since threadripper, has that incredible pci express bandwidth.
Uh! No wonder you see so many slots over here for multiple gpu setups, the build quality from the fit and finish to the server great chokes, and you can see that it actually has built-in. I o shield, as well as the back plate, is comprised of this really high-grade aluminum material, which is gon na make sure that the motherboard runs a little bit cooler, there’s better heat dissipation, and it definitely makes the motherboard look more premium than your average uh board. That you’re gon na find out there now moving forward in terms of graphics cards.
We’Re gon na go a little bit overboard. We’Re gon na use two gtx 1080 ti’s in sli configuration again uh. This might be a little bit overkill for most games out there, but since we’re going to be using a fairly high resolution, ultra widescreen monitor uh the more graphics horsepower we have the better.
Our gaming experience will be for most titles out there that support sli configuration uh. You could definitely do with one gtx 1080 ti it’s more than powerful enough for even 4k gaming, but having two is always cooler and uh definitely will give you a little bit edge in terms of performance now in terms of storage uh. Just for the build. For now, i’m gon na be using the evo 960 500 gigabyte. M.2 drive should be fine for just our needs right now. The cooler we’re going to be using the corsair h100i version 2. now keep in mind that the threadripper bracket actually comes with the processor itself. So you can actually use that adapter and there’s a list of uh current coolers that are compatible with the tr socket so but uh keep in mind that the actual adapter comes with the cpu. But installation is fairly straightforward and simple. It’S a very secure fit from the motherboard socket to the cooler itself now in terms of ram uh.
I don’t have a lot of memory uh right now, but i’m going to add more in the future. Currently, i’m using the guile evo, x, 16 gigabyte, ddr4 memory and then i have thrown in another 16 gigabytes of hyperx memory. Both are around at the same clock, speed at 2600 megahertz, which is specific uh to the threadripper platform. Now, last but not least in terms of power supply in case i’m using the evo supernova, 1000 watt, g3 80 plus gold certified fully modular psu to power.
Everything should be more than enough for everything that we have over here and for the case, i want to showcase the parts that we’re using so i’m using the corsair 570x. It has a tempered glass finish throughout pretty much every panel, so it showcases your internal components. Very nicely it has some cool rgb lighting effects at the front plenty of uh, good airflow, generally speaking, but mainly, i chose this case for the amazing, build quality and the fact that it’s going to kind of display everything inside in a fairly nice and elegant manner. Now the monitor is specifically the lg 38 uc 99, a w.
It’S a 38 inch 21×9 curved ultra wide screen a monitor. It has a native resolution of a 3840 by 1600, which is just shy of the ultra hd standard, and but it is more than the typical 34 inch ultra wide screen display, which are very popular, which have a uh vertical resolution about 1440 compared to 1600. Both have the same horizontal resolution uh from the 4k standard, which is a 3840, so it is a very high resolution display and it looks absolutely amazing, 38 inches four more inches than standard kind of ultra widescreen monitors definitely makes a big difference. You’Re gon na need a larger, a desk for sure, but having a display at this size, and this resolution definitely eliminates the need to have multiple desktop monitors, especially if you do a lot of productivity work.
The other nice thing is you don’t really need to use any scaling options, unlike some of the 4k monitors, which look way too small, if you go with a one to one 100 scaling, so that’s really nice and a lot of apps uh. Typically, don’t uh enable uh. Some of the scaling capabilities you have in windows are right now, so definitely a convenient factor there. The refresh rate is 60 hertz standard. It can go up to 75 with a freesync enabled gpu from amd. Unfortunately, we have nvidia gp. So we can’t really use that, but 60 hertz is fine for my purpose. This is mostly going to be uh for productivity reasons, and most of our games are going to be running in the 60 frames per second anyway, since we’re going to have all the details.
Kind of turned up it’s a very bright display, 300 cdm squared. It does have a built-in, a bluetooth speakers inside 10 watts each from left to right, uh, which is definitely a convenient factor, a decent amount of connectivity options, including usb uh type c interface, as well as displayport and hdmi 2.0. Now, just for you guys that are interested, the total cost for this setup was around 58.74, not including the operating system.
So if you want to add another 120 or so uh you’re, just under shy of 6 000 for uh, the pc and the monitor so uh, definitely not a cheap, economical setup but uh one that is super premium. Now. The first thing that we’re going to take a look at is the cpu performance results and what we’re going to do is actually do a comparison between uh, some of the other popular kind of high-end uh cpu platform.
So we’re gon na compare the 1950x setup that we have over here to the intel 7820x, as well as the ryzen 7 1800x chip uh. Both are uh eight chords with uh 16 threads, so uh cinebench r15 on the multi-core performance results. We got just under shy. 3000 points on our thread, ripper and in terms of single core performance. We’Ve got about 168 and that definitely beats out the other two processors uh with the intel coming in second place and the 1800 x coming in third place, both fairly respectable scores. Of course, now uh, geekbench 4 again very similar results about 33 000 points in terms of the multi-core performance about 4 500 points in terms of the single core performance. Now one thing you’re going to notice is that, in terms of the single core performance, the intel 7820x is actually beating up both of the amd chips. Keep in mind for gaming application purposes, most likely all three of these chips are going to perform very similar. If not the intel being a little bit more optimized for some of the games that utilize more better single core performance than multi-core performance. Now, speaking of the gaming performance uh, here we’re going to take a look at the gaming benchmark results now, uh.
All of the gaming titles were actually rendered out in a 3840 by 1600, based on the native resolution of our 38 inch ultra widescreen monitor. But the time spy benchmark is a standardized test, so it i believe it uses quad hd resolution and we get a graphic score about 15 000 points. Roughly there, the unigine’s at valley benchmark, which is another synthetic. We rendered out 3840 by 1600 ultra details and we get uh 98.1 average frames per second and the other gaming titles are more real world examples of average frames per second, with pretty much all the detail: settings maxed out to ultra so uh.
There are your results over there if you’re interested in the specific resolution and how they kind of perform in the uh sli configurations with a two gtx at 1080t eyes. But on that guys, that’s really it. If you like this video, please give us a thumbs up without your guys’s support. None of this would be possible at all and, if you’re interested in some of the parts that we use and maybe want to build your own pc, like this check out the description down below and if you use any of our links, it gives us a little Bit of kickback and it helps support the channel, keeps this whole thing afloat without you guys again, none of this would be possible.
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