CPU & Motherboard for editing

Bergkamp · 26 Sep 2019 at 21:51

My dad is currently looking to upgrade his system but I'm well out of the loop these days when it comes to CPUs so was wondering if anyone had any ideas for a new CPU and motherboard mostly for photo editing and a bit of gaming? He has a budget of about £300-400

I don't really have much time these days to go and do the research properly so thought I'd ask the nice folks here for any help you can give.

Thanks

Edit: He needs quite a lot of USB ports too and would probably like to keep the possibility of overclocking open

Drumroll · 26 Sep 2019 at 22:12

The budget is for CPU and Mobo only?
MSI 450b + 2700x. The 3600 is an excellent processor, but the 2 extra cores for his use would be better.

Bergkamp · 26 Sep 2019 at 23:27

Yea, that's the budget for just the CPU and mobo

Drumroll · 26 Sep 2019 at 23:35

Best bet the one suggested, then. 8c16t, it's a very good performance per pound. Motherboard, some b350 can be cheaper, but I would go with a b450 so you'll be able to upgrade CPU in the future without issues, and there's plenty of motherboards available with loads of usb. Don't need to be the more expensive X360/470/570 for it.

Bergkamp · 27 Sep 2019 at 22:49

Intel not in the running at all on this front?

sideways14a · 27 Sep 2019 at 22:57

Intel hardly have any runners in the race these days.

theforce · 30 Sep 2019 at 01:07

Is the current system using DDR4? What are his current specs?

Bergkamp · 1 Oct 2019 at 21:47

Well he ended up going with a Ryzen 5 3600 and an MSI X570-A Pro and I put 16GB of DDR4 in there for him. Unfortunately I've built it for him tonight and it does nothing. I've checked connections but the only sign of life is the flashing LED when I push the flash bios button on the I/O panel, not even a hint of anything else happens when I try to power it up. Any suggestions? DOA?

Full spec is as above with a Corsair RM750x PSU, a GTX970 GPU, 2 SSDs and 1 HDD.

Edit: The PSU was powering his old setup earlier in the day perfectly well so I'm confident that's not an issue. I had originally setup using the 8 pins for the CPU and when that didn't work added the extra 4, but still no joy.

Edit 2: Think this mobo ships with dodgy documentation with a misdirect to the wrong set of pins for the front panel. Have to wait until tomorrow to check :mad: