Advice Needed for New GIS PC Build
Posted by damntam@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 3 comments
Im looking to get a new pc built intended for heavy gis work primarily in 2d. I have no experience building a pc myself (and honestly not interested in hoing down that rabbit hole) so im reaching out to some companies to build one for me. Located in canada with a budget roughly $4000 to $6000 (after tax and shipping). Looking for any suggestions for pc builder companies i could reach out to for alternative quotes to compare.
I got this quote back which seems decent but i honestly have no clue what specifically i need for components (other than being told by coworker cpu, ram, and storage are the key components). Let me know if anyone has any opinions if this would be good or if theres anything you recommend changing while still staying within the budget.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9900X
Cooling: Quoted A13 360mm Liquid Cooler - Black
Motherboard: MSI PRO X870-P WIFI
Memory: Kingston Fury Beast 64GB
Storage Primary: Kingston KC3000 2TB NVMe M.2 SSD
Storage Secondary: Kingston KC3000 2TB NVMe M.2 SSD
Graphics Card: Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti (16GB)
Case: MSI PANO 110R PZ Black
PSU: 750W ASUS TUF Gaming
Labour: Standard Labour
OS: Windows 11 Home
Price per build: $4,979.00 CAD
Tax: $597.48 CAD
Total: $5,576.48 CAD
Cer_Visia@reddit
The case and AiO are for gaming. The GPU is probably overkill, but that depends on the software. What software will you be using, and does it have specific requirements?
Assuming that you do need a 16 GB GPU, I would recommend something like this: https://shop.quoted.tech/products/quoted-one-pro-custom?designId=150031&token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJkZXNpZ25JZCI6MTUwMDMxLCJ0ZW5hbnQiOiJxdW90ZWQtdGVjaCIsImlhdCI6MTc3OTcyNjUxMCwiZXhwIjoxNzU1ODUyNjUxMH0.C6dy1vlLN4fsvIDlDXFu392iUoBghUQkR4_DlHYpxgk
Fractal Design North Charcoal Black
Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus
ASUS TUF Gaming B860-PLUS WIFI DDR5
Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT (16GB)
64GB DDR5
Kingston KC3000 4TB NVMe M.2
750W Be Quiet! PURE POWER
Windows 11 Pro
CA$4,799.00
Thisisnotpreston@reddit
This would be more than enough for any GIS product. 12 cores, 64g ram, 16g graphics card and 4tb of nvme. Ram should be 6000mhz 30cl.
I did some government work about 5 years ago. We had to buy a prebuilt workstation from Intel because of contracts and it easily handled large raster files. I think ours was 64g ram and rtx 3080 GPU. I don’t remember the cpu, and im pretty sure it was still using ssd.
Current_Direction775@reddit
For heavy GIS raster work, your coworker is mostly right — CPU, RAM, and storage throughput matter far more than gaming-focused specs.