£1000 box only

[Paul11]

looking to upgrade my I7 3700/16gb/256SSD/970GTX

is £1000 enough for a box with a I7 8700k ?


main use (in order)

lightroom
photoshop
web/office stuff
very occasional gaming

 

[orbitalwalsh]

looking to upgrade my I7 3700/16gb/256SSD/970GTX

is £1000 enough for a box with a I7 8700k ?


main use (in order)

lightroom
photoshop
web/office stuff
very occasional gaming

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Intel Core i7-8700 3.2GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £289.99
• 1 x Gigabyte B360 Aorus Gaming 3 WIFI Intel B360 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £95.99
• 1 x GeIL Evo X AMD Edition 32GB (16GBx2) PC4-19200 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (GAEXY432GB2400C16D= £239.99
• 2 x TeamGroup 480GB L5 Lite SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £89.99
• 1 x Cryorig M9I Single Tower Heatsink for Intel= £17.99

Total: £834.44 (includes shipping: £10.50)
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Used i7 8700 non K to save cash, bump up ram to 32GB and add larger SSD for workload for Adobe separate /scratch drive

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/a...erformance-AMD-Ryzen-2-vs-Intel-8th-Gen-1136/

Not touch difference , if your going g for 8700k then you'd want to Overclock to 5ghz + to get your money's worth and have a damn good cooler !

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Lightroom-Classic-CC-Version-7-2-Performance-1110/

Lightroom , core can be key and then on the flip side speed

 

[Paul11]

Thank you , that is very helpful

and i should keep the GTX970 ?

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Thank you , that is very helpful

and i should keep the GTX970 ?

More then enough to accelerate Adobe programs and gaming at 1080p