Help for first time build :)

[harpbluesman@gm]

Hi everyone, I've never built a pc before and I would like to have an opinion on this build. Do you think all the component are compatible? is it a good build for this price? If possible I would prefer to spend a couple of hundred quid less, can I safe some money somehow?
Last thing, I will be using this pc for video and photo editing, nothing too serious though.
Thanks a lot for your help guys.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Gigabyte X99M Gaming 5 - Intel Core i7 5820K Six Core CPU & Motherboard Bundle ***£20 Saving***= £533.98
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 Twin Turbo OC 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-N970TTOC-4GD)= £179.99
• 1 x Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler= £32.99
• 1 x Samsung 120GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E120B/EU= £68.99
• 1 x Corsair Carbide Series Air 240 High Airflow PC Case - Black (CC-9011070-WW)= £89.99
• 1 x LG 29UM68-P 29" 2560x1080 IPS FREESYNC Gaming Super-Wide Widescreen LED Monitor - Black= £239.99
• 1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 600W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020048-UK)= £63.95
• 1 x WD Blue 1TB 7200rpm SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (WD10EZEX)= £42.95
• 1 x Kingston Fury Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C15 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (HX424C15FB2K2/1= £59.99

Total: £1,312.82
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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[LewisRaz]

You have a freesync monitor but an NVIDIA GPU. You would need an AMD GPU to use the freesync feature.

 

[stulid]

About as cheap as I think I can make it without sacrificing anything too much 4 cores+Hyperthreading VS 6 core+Hyperthreading


My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x LG 29UM68-P 29" 2560x1080 IPS FREESYNC Gaming Super-Wide Widescreen LED Monitor - Black= £239.99
• 1 x WD Blue 1TB 7200rpm SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (WD10EZEX)= £42.95
• 1 x Samsung PM961 Polaris 256GB M.2-2880 PCI-e 3.0 x 4 NVMe Solid State Drive= £99.95
• 1 x Sapphire Radeon RX 480 Nitro+ 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express RGB Graphics Card= £199.99
• 1 x Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 7 - Skylake Core i7 6700K CPU & Motherboard Bundle **£20 Saving**= £484.98
• 1 x Team Group Dark 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (TDKED416G3000HC16AD= £68.99
• 1 x Phanteks Eclipse P400S Midi Tower Case - Noise Dampened Black Window= £66.95
• 1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler - Black= £15.95
• 1 x Fractal Design Tesla R2 500W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply= £39.95

Total: £1,259.70
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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A R9 380X at £150 maybe good enough for you - https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...ics-card-gv-r938xg1-gaming-4gd-gx-181-gi.html

Bigger capacity SSD, 128GB wont last long and will fill up so fast.

Case apparently has some noise dampening applied.

 

[lee32uk]

Don't think those coolers will fit in the Air 240.

 

[harpbluesman@gm]

Thanks for that, is this much better than this?
cos I'm a student and I can get that with discount for £1150
is it really worth spending £130 more just to have a bigger ssd and a bigger screen?
That's me talking with no experience and not enough knowledge, so please don't insult me

 

[stulid]

Ive removed the link as its a competitor, OcUK sell systems too.

That spec in the Dell is ok.

 

[harpbluesman@gm]

sorry about that, didn't really read the rules
Anyway, the reason I'm here is cos with my research I found out that build your own pc is better due to the quality of components and also works out cheaper than buying a pre-buid system.
could I get anything better than the dell for £1150?

 

[stulid]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Toshiba P300 1TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache High Performance Hard Drive (HDWD110UZSVA)= £42.95
• 1 x Samsung 250GB 750 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive= £59.99
• 1 x Kingston Fury Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C15 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (HX424C15FB2K2/1= £59.99
• 1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler - Black= £15.95
• 1 x Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - OEM= £299.99
• 1 x Gigabyte Z170-Gaming K3 Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £104.99
• 1 x Phanteks Eclipse P400 Midi Tower Case - Black Window= £57.95
• 1 x Fractal Design Tesla R2 500W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply= £39.95
• 1 x LG 29UM68-P 29" 2560x1080 IPS FREESYNC Gaming Super-Wide Widescreen LED Monitor - Black= £239.99
• 1 x Gigabyte Radeon R9 380X G1 Gaming 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (GV-R938XG1 GAMING-4GD)= £149.99

Total: £1,071.74
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Toshiba P300 1TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache High Performance Hard Drive (HDWD110UZSVA)= £42.95
• 1 x Samsung 250GB 750 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive= £59.99
• 1 x Kingston Fury Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C15 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (HX424C15FB2K2/1= £59.99
• 1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler - Black= £15.95
• 1 x Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - OEM= £299.99
• 1 x Gigabyte Z170-Gaming K3 Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £104.99
• 1 x Phanteks Eclipse P400 Midi Tower Case - Black Window= £57.95
• 1 x AOC G2460PF 24" 1920x1080 TN FREESYNC 144Hz 1ms Gaming Widescreen LED Monitor - Black/Red= £199.99
• 1 x Sapphire Radeon RX 480 Nitro+ 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express RGB Graphics Card= £199.99
• 1 x Fractal Design Tesla R2 500W '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply= £39.95

Total: £1,081.74
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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Thats about as cheap as I can get it.

That is if you are happy to build it yourself.

 

[lee32uk]

Will you be doing any gaming on this pc, or is it just for Video/Photo editing ?

 

[harpbluesman@gm]

Thanks, I'll think about this, even tough I would rather go for a nvidia gpu cos I'm almost certainly be using linux on it and as far as I know nvidia gpu are better supported in linux distributions.
No I won't be doing any games, or at least any demanding games, Just video and photo editing. I was also wondering that probably I can stretch my budget up to £1300 for the right machine with the right screen, obviously only if the £200 more will make a real difference to the machine.

 

[stulid]

Never say never about proper gaming.


My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Gigabyte X99M Gaming 5 - Intel Core i7 5820K Six Core CPU & Motherboard Bundle ***£20 Saving***= £533.98
• 1 x Samsung 250GB 750 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive= £59.99
• 1 x Toshiba P300 1TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache High Performance Hard Drive (HDWD110UZSVA)= £42.95
• 1 x Ballistix Sport LT 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Quad Channel Kit - Black/Grey (BLS4C4G4D24= £65.99
• 1 x Super Flower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black= £65.99
• 1 x Raijintek Themis Black Heatpipe CPU Cooler PWM - 120mm= £19.99
• 1 x Asus GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU II OC Strix 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £199.99
• 1 x AOC Q2577PWQ 25" 2560x1440 IPS Professional Widescreen LED Monitor - Silver/Black= £239.99
• 1 x Antec P100 Mid Tower Silenced Computing Case - White= £72.95

Total: £1,301.82
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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This is another case that has sound dampening material applied to it.

More can be found here - https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cases-and-modding/pc-cases/noise-dampened?sPage=1&sSort=3

And theres others not in that link above like this one - https://www.overclockers.co.uk/phan...ower-case-noise-dampened-black-ca-047-pt.html

I know nothing about Linux, but I do know that many video editing apps ec can use OpenGL which is strong on the AMD side, Nvidia have CUDA as their main way to accelerate performance.