I'm interested in purchasing an OcUK Pre-Built System and would welcome any advice from those with more experience than me. My days of gaming are alas over and the old machine is no longer keeping up. The most power intensive tasks I now use the PC for are Photo Editing - mainly with Lightroom with large numbers of RAW files shot on a Pro Canon Body over the last decade or so.
The Renda G6-CS with the Intel i9-KS has caught my attention and below is a configuration I'm toying with - anything changes / modifications I'd welcome views?
@Isg1r and @ Tetras - thanks for comments and well taken.
To the point on nothing in the Spec that really differentiates this vs a Gaming PC I take your point - but I'm with you on the non-RGB case!! Maybe I just build this myself bespoke but I have to admit I'm out of practice and out of date - last completely "new" build was approx. 10 years ago but fingers crossed nothing's changed that much.
To storage yes this is because I have many terabytes of old files that I keep in cloud and on a physical hard drive (and NAS).
To question on I/O bottleneck kind of "everything" - my current PC is nearly 10 years old (good in its day Extreme 980X processor) so is justifiably now tapping out but has served me well. The memory / SDD / HDD etc are all maxed out for what the board will do. Literally every file takes too long to load up and then every filter / file manipulation takes a few seconds which is too long - I need faster. Batch file processing takes many seconds or close to minutes.
If you have a gaming PC recommendation spec that I can play with would be appreciated - I used to play Eve a lot (i.e. too much) but was too addictive but you never know ...
Thanks so much for comments and advice received so far. Reflecting a little more on this I think building myself would probably be worthwhile - and more fun - and an opportunity to get up to date on latest kit / technologies. I want some fast / future proof and scalable (as much as one can predict what form that will come in) and have come up with the following below.
Questions for the hive:
1) Any "just wrong" with any of what I've put together?
2) On Motherboard I really welcome input - I likely won't be overclocking but really want something with as many M.2 ports as possible and is scalable in terms of numbers of drives.
3) On memory I was aiming 32GB of DDR5 but welcome advice - I'm really out of date
4) I have a Corsair Modular RM750x PSU I think I can reuse in this new rig but if not pls let me know.
5) I also have an R9 390 series graphics card I was going to use for now until I need something better - again let me know if that's a no go ...
6) On CPU cooling I only have experience using these Monoblock kits which worked well (until they didn't) but if there is something better that I can't mess up easily I'm all ears
7) On case I picked something with no flashing lights to scare the dog ... just after something that looks sensible and will fit but again welcome ideas.
Thanks in advance!
JD
1 X Intel Core i9-13900K (Raptor Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail - £649.99
SKU: CP-6AZ-IN 1 X Samsung 980 Pro 1TB M.2 2280 PCI-e 4.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive - £128.99
SKU: HD-248-SA 1 X WD Black SN850X 4TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (WDS400T2X0E) - £399.95
SKU: HD-592-WD 1 X Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 64-Bit DVD - OEM (FQC-10528) - £164.99
SKU: SW-18K-MS 1 X Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2 Full Tower Case Closed Window Satin Black - £159.94
SKU: CA-0A9-PT 1 X ASUS ROG Ryujin II 360 Performance AIO CPU Liquid Cooler with OLED Display - 360mm - £279.95
SKU: HS-055-AS 1 X Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Hero (LGA 1700) DDR5 ATX Motherboard - £679.99
SKU: MB-6JG-AS 1 X Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-49600C36 6200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (CMT32GX5M2X6200C36) - £374.99
SKU: MY-4DA-CS
Ok - so a shaved off a "bag of sand" in costs - so firstly thank you! How's this looking now?
The ASUS M.2 card I post more as an example as to how I can expand in the future as and when and if the need arises. Teh graphics card and PSU I'll see how I go and then obviously easy fix if I run into issues down the line.
Found a midi tower that looks unobtrusive as well - assume it all fits?
1 X Samsung 980 Pro 1TB M.2 2280 PCI-e 4.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive - £128.99
SKU: HD-248-SA 1 X WD Black SN850X 4TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E Gen4 Solid State Drive (WDS400T2X0E) - £399.95
SKU: HD-592-WD 1 X Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 64-Bit DVD - OEM (FQC-10528) - £164.98
SKU: SW-18K-MS 1 X Asus Prime Z790-P WIFI (LGA 1700) DDR5 ATX Motherboard - £269.99
SKU: MB-6JR-AS 1 X Intel Core i7-13700K (Raptor Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail - £469.99
SKU: CP-6AX-IN 1 X Corsair Vengeance EXPO 64GB (2X32GB) DDR5 PC5-41600C40 5200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (CMK64GX5M2B5200Z40) - £350.00
SKU: MY-4DM-CS 1 X Kolink Tranquility Silent Midi Tower Case - Black Noise Dampened - £62.98
SKU: CA-03W-KK 1 X Alphacool Core Ocean T38 CPU Water Cooler - 420mm - £89.99
SKU: WC-0CU-AC 1 X ASUS Hyper M.2 x16 PCI-e Controller Card V2 - £44.99
SKU: CC-001-AS
Switch to AMD? I have no experience with AMD but I'm open minded ... just want a fast, will be fast in the future and I can make it faster in time machine ... (so the right MB is key) .... the rest I can fix with time (and £) ...
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