Catshill Posted July 7, 2023 Posted July 7, 2023 I am planning a new computer and monitor system for my office. I have three questions in terms of the 1) CPU, 3) the GPU and 3) my choice of monitor. I would welcome opinions and thoughts. 1) After considering an Intel i5 I've now decided on a Ryzen 5 7600C combined with 32Gb of 4800MHz memory. Are there any issues with running the Affinity suite with AMD Ryzen processors? 2) Advice on these forums and elsewhere appears contradictory. A couple of posters have suggested that it makes sense to get a £400 graphics card (such as the RTX 3070). However, I have read that graphic design only needs a modest GPU as 90% of the workload is done by the CPU/RAM. Given that I won't be gaming or doing much video editing work does a £100ish card make more sense. My PC manufacturer has said for the work I am doing the onboard graphics of my MBD (Asus TUF GAMING A620M-PLUS) is perfectly adequate. Who is right? 3) I currently run a pair of old 22" DVI panels. i. I started looking at a 32" ultra-wide monitor but I've been reading that ii. two separate 24" monitors would be better. If I went down that option would sub-professional (< £300) monitors be ok. Professional graphic monitors are out of my league. iii. so now I am looking at using a 42" 4K OLED TV as a monitor. The LG C2 is a popular choice. Does anyone else run a similar set up. Thanks for reading.
v_kyr Posted July 7, 2023 Posted July 7, 2023 1) CPU wise usually there shoudn't, though I would go for 64 GB of RAM for a Win desktop system. Since having enough RAM in reserve is always a good thing to have! 2) As that's an expandable desktop computer mainboard, you can give the onboard GPU first a a good try and testrun. And if you find out that it isn't sufficient enough, you can always place (slot-in) a more powerful GPU then on demand. 3) It's overall a matter of taste here, I often used 2x 24"/27" monitor setups for development purposes, as that's what customers often provide as dev hardware for project related work. But in the company office mostly using a 38" curved ultrawide LG monitor. - Personally I would go with a curved ultrawide monitor here, as those offer a lot of customizable screen space, do need less cables and power supplies ... etc. ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2
Catshill Posted July 30, 2023 Author Posted July 30, 2023 This was the system I ended up with. It works really well with the suite and is totally silent! 1 Dell 34" Ultrawide Monitor P3421w 1 AMDZZ346 3.9GHz AMD RYZEN 5 5600G 6 CORE CPU (TURBO 4.4GHz) 1 CPUZZ229 DEEPCOOL 200W CPU COOLER (DUAL FAN) - AM5/AM4 1 MAINB012 Gigabyte A520M DS3H Motherboard 2 MEMOR970 CRUCIAL 64GB DDR4 3200MHZ CL22 1 OEMZZ140 MICROSOFT WINDOWS 11 PRO LICENCE E-KEY (64-BIT) 1 PCCAS468 ITEC MIDI PC CHASSIS - ATX,mATX, 120mm FAN, SILENT CASE 1 PSUZZ070 750W DEEPCOOL SILENT POWER SUPPLY (80+ BRONZE) 1 SSDZZ127 2TB CRUCIAL M.2 nVME SSD DRIVE PARTIONED OS C AND DATA D
Recommended Posts