RIP GameDev Rig

Going back to a Ryzen APU build. To be honest, I think I went overboard and overpowered on this one, I mean come on, 16 threads for someone who does Ren'Py during the day and Black Desert Online during the night. The plan to have someone use this rig never came into fruition so off it goes. 

I really liked the mismatched white and blue aesthetic. The motherboard PCB was 2011 blue as a hell.

A much clearer shot of the motherboard's blue PCB.

The rig's last Fire Strike score when it  was completed (32gb RAM).

Bruh somebody engaged the warp drive.

Apparently the local architectural firm doesn't know about the awesome Twilight Render plugin for SketchUp.

Overall, it's performance for workstation/production tasks like Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Blender, and SketchUp was pretty good but god damn it it eats up to 480 watts on peak. The E5-2670 managed to finish Open Blender Benchmark quick mode (classroom and bmw) in under 34 minutes while the GPU took 15 minutes to render. 

Bottomline:

Though there's still cheap LGA2011 Xeons in the market right now and even with non-ECC DDR3 prices really dirt cheap at the moment, don't go this route. Play it safe and modern, go Ryzen. Though for disclosure purposes I did ditch a Ryzen 1600 system before for this one hahaha.

Welp, building it was fun, using it opened my eyes to what is above mid-tier gaming lol (it's just more heat, more noise, more power). So long old friend. 

Full Parts List:

CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2670

Motherboard: Alienware R4 X79 7JNH0 Socket 2011 mATX

RAM: 4x8gb Team Elite+ 1600mhz C11 DDR3

GPU: Asus Dual GTX 1070

PSU: Seagate Eco Series 600w 80+ Bronze

Boot Drive: WD Green 120gb

Storage: WD Blue Scorpio 320gb x 2

Storage: Seagate FireCuda 1tb SSHD

Total Cost: 670 USD 

Sold For: 450 USD