Bulid for photo processing & occasional gaming

[Martianrover]

Hi could someone suggest a build for me. I do astrophotography and therefore need capacity to combine lots of dslr images (image stacking) sometimes 1000 x 20mb images. The software compares and overlays each image, my current pc takes 12 hours to perform this task. I'm not sure where I should spend my money to speed this up - ssd, gpu, cpu, ram? I also occasional like to play first person games, bioshock infinite and such. Budget is £700 but could spend up to £900 if would reap benefits. Thanks a bunch!

 

[Lemin]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x AMD Bundle - AMD Ryzen 7 2700X, Asus Strix X370-F, Team Group RAM *FREE 480GB SSD* *ONLINE ONLY* = £617.96
  • Memory Capacity:Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD416G30

Total: £628.46 (includes shipping: £10.50)​

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You should list your current specs

 

[Martianrover]

Thanks, my current build is pretty old:

Coolermaster Cavalier 3 Silver Case
Power Supply: Quiet Coolermaster 500Watt Dual 12V Rail PSU
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 CPU
Heatsink & CPU Fan: Standard Heatsink & CPU Fan
DDR2 Memory: 2 GB Kingston 667Mhz PC5300 DDR2 RAM
PCI-E Graphics: nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB Dual VGA
Sound Card: Integrated 5.1 Channel Sound Card
Primary Hard Drive: 320GB SATA 7200RPM Hard Drive

 

[Lemin]

Id change it all...

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x AMD Bundle - AMD Ryzen 7 2700X, Asus Strix X370-F, Team Group RAM *FREE 480GB SSD* *ONLINE ONLY* = £617.96
  • Memory Capacity:Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD416G30
• 1 x Cougar MX330-G Midi-Tower Case - Black Tempered Glass= £39.95
• 1 x Seagate 2TB BarraCuda 7200RPM 64MB Cache Internal Hard Drive (ST2000DM006)= £55.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050Ti D5 Mini 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £139.99
• 1 x Cougar GX-S 550W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply= £61.99

Total: £928.48 (includes shipping: £12.60)​

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[orbitalwalsh]

@Martianrover

ryzen 1700, slightly slower then 2700/2700x but has the same 8 cores/16 threads but a lot cheaper !
32GB ram instead of 8 or 16gb along with larger SSD... speed and size is key. You'll be having 20GB of data, moving that from SSD to PCU via ram and back to SSD from completion- move the finished workload to HDD to keep SSD free and clean .
gtx 1050ti for solid 1080p 30-60fos gaming

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 7 Eight Core 1700 3.70GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £209.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD432G3= £229.99
• 1 x Gigabyte B450M-DS3H AMD B450 (Socket AM4) DDR4 Micro-ATX Motherboard= £69.95
• 1 x Gigabyte UD Pro 512GB SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Toshiba 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £79.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050Ti D5 Mini 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £139.99
• 1 x Bitfenix Formula Series 450W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply= £59.99
• 1 x CoolerMaster MasterBox Q300L Micro-ATX Case - Black Window= £44.99
• 1 x Toshiba 2TB P300 7200RPM Performance Hard Drive (HDWD120UZSVA)= £52.99

Total: £899.58 (includes shipping: £11.70)
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uk warranty on board and gpu along with best budget Tier 2 psu

slightly small factor in size

 

[Martianrover]

Thanks both, appreciate the help!