20 GB (8GB X 2 + 4GB X 1) Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 MHz.Sapphire Vapor-X HD 7950 EVGA GTX 1070 SC Black Edition ACX 3.0.Intel 660p NVMe 1TB + Crucial MX500 1TB + WD Black 1TB HDD.32GB (16GB X 2) Crucial Ballistix RGB DDR4-3600.Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum + Corsair K70 (Red LED, anodized black, Cheery MX Browns).Phanteks Enthoo Luxe Tempered Glass Edition.

EVGA SuperNOVA 850W P2 + Red/White CableMod Cables.

SanDisk 480 GB SSD + 1TB Samsung 860 EVO + 1TB Intel 660p NVMe.

32GB G.Skill TridentZ DDR4-3000 CL14 (16GB TridentZ RGB + 16GB Red/Black TridentZ).

Sapphire NITRO+ RX 5700 XT Special Edition - 2x Sapphire NITRO R9-Fury in Crossfire.

Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Master - ASUS X99 Deluxe.

Intel X99 Rig (Officially Decommissioned, Dead CPU returned to Intel)

AMD FirePro W4100 2GB workstation graphics card.

Xeon E5-1603 v3, Quad-Core, Eight-threads, 10MB cache.

Your Lenovo workstation build (P300), BUT:

The K4000 smokes both the K620, K420, and NVS510.

Quadro K4000 Graphics card (based on the Kepler architecture).

Have a look at these (some may be refurbished): 16GB, 32GB, or even 64GB).and a graphics card may not absolutely necessary. What form of scientific simulation are you doing? What program(s) will you be using?ĭepending on the scenario, you may just need a high core / thread count processor, and LOTS of ECC Memory (i.e. The GT620 will be hard to find as a stand-alone product, since the GeForce 600 series has already been replaced by TWO of its successor generations (700 series, and now, the 900 series). Plus, it is completely illogical to purchase a $5,000 workstation graphics card to play games when the $400 ~ $500 gaming brethren can do just as well, or better. A workstation graphics cards needs to perform precise calculations, where a 'gaming' graphics card is only concerned about spitting out the most FPS out as possible - lowest priority on errors.Ī workstation graphics card will be able to play games, and vise-versa, but it won't perform as well as compared to its suitable counter-part.

If you have the option, you are better off to drop the i7-4790 to an i5 (or even i3) alternative, and spend the extra $150~$200 on better performing graphics card, such as:Ī Workstation graphics card is targeted for the use of rendering (i.e. This can directly apply to computer systems.Įven IF you have a 18-core Processor, and 256GB of RAM.if your graphics card is slow / weak in compute performance, your system is only as fast as the GPU can perform.Īn analogy is to strap a V10 engine into a car.but the transmission is only 3-speed.īoth the GT 620 and Quadro K420 are entry-level graphics cards. 'You are only as strong as your weakest link.'

Amd firepro w4100 vs nvidia quadro k620