Are you including the future high-end GPU and 4k monitor in this budget? This budget is barely enough for just a decent CPU + board + RAM for excel data crunching and AI/ML work, forget having a 4k monitor and a GPU that can support VR gaming.
IMO, you need to reconsider either your budget or your requirements.
This. You’d have to hunt for deep-discount sales and used parts to build one under the given budget.
Some AI/ML can be easily down with 6-8gb nvidia cards.
Around 35-45k, DDR4 is the only option that can barely satisfy the requirement. I’ve seen some PCs being sold on gameloot which you’ve mentioned. There are some decent options but the warranty period and using sub-par motherboards and PSU are a dealbreaker. I’d suggest going with bronze PSU (based on LLC) and a motherboard with heatsinks for the VRMs.
If you plan to add a high end GPU a 12VHPWR connection from an atx3.0 psu is good plus the atx3.0 compliance is also good. If you choose to put a high end GPU in a machine running an AM4 processor you will surely bottleneck the GPU that why I highly suggest going for an AM5 build, it also helps in future proofing the build a lot. The case suggested is alright for a normal build but if you want more room and better airflow I suggest going for the Montech Air 903 Base/Max whichever one you find cheaper.
Not sure if that is possible currently, I the build that I suggested is already is pretty much the least you can spend to get a good price to performance ratio and be able to add a high end card in the future.
You said above “if you go for an AM4 you’ll surely bottleneck the GPU”. IF that is correct (and I’m not saying it is), the cost of reducing the spend right now is potentially somewhat limited performance in the future. But it does NOT mean that what you posted is the minimum.
I was planning to buy a CPU worth atleast 45-50k multi thread CPU benchmark , budget seems to be around 30k for CPU. What config you could suggest please!
If going for a “high-end” GPU an AM4 cpu will definitely be a bottleneck atleast the one available at a comparable price and imo spends that kind of money on a last gen platform doesn’t make sense as future proofing of a build is also important. An AM4 cpu might get by in multi threaded workloads but it will get absolutely crushed by any AM5 cpu in single threaded workloads.
What would you suggest that is a minimum given that the actual performance capability of the machine won’t be hindered?
If looking purely for multithreading the intel 13700k should be good and under budget but the problem is that there have been power issues with intel CPUs lately with the cpu crashing due to silicon degradation. Although it has mostly been seen to occur in cases of the i9 CPUs but it may extend to the i7 CPUs as well in the future.
Here is HW Unboxed’s latest video on gaming performance across different CPUs. AM4 isn’t worth investing in at this juncture unless it’s the 5800X3D. But that is also getting a bit long in the tooth.
This is exactly what I was trying to say as I had watched the same video and the general benefits you get by upgrading to AM5 make going with AM4 seem like a waste of money and effort.
If gaming is more important to you go with AMD, a 7800x3d would be nice and close to about 30k but if multi threaded workloads are more important a 13700k/kf or 14700k/kf is the way to go.
Most ML algorithms (from scikit learn) run on CPU while DL algorithms needs gpu for faster processing. With your budget of 45k no LLM training is possible but for learning ML and DL this is my recommendation.
CPU: Amd Ryzen 5 5600X Processor
MB: Asus Prime B550M-A (Wi-Fi) II Motherboard (Prime B550M-A Wifi II)
I have a wifi usb dongle as well if that works. My current system didn’t have wifi either. If wifi in mobo increases cost by few hundreds/thousands; i am ok
i want to avoid intel. with increasing salaries, i might think of upgrading cpu later, intel is notorious at supporting upgrades. I am thinking of am5
