Hi...another one of those questions

Spot73 · 10 Mar 2021 at 14:41

Hi, its been 15 years since I built my last Pc (i defected to Mac), but after having a new M1 mac mini for a month and finding it an absolute dog egg, I got Crapple to refund me pronto and decided to revert to Windows.

I am a casual video editor (4k drone), a keen photoshopper and other productivity related user stuff (not really in to games). I've read through these forums a fair bit and general consensus suggests AMD are top of their game right now, so with that in mind (and the fact that stock seems to be a real issue), what are my options for a machine with longevity - lasting 3-5 years with a budget of up to £1500?

Preferably I'd like to stick to a small-ish case, Mini-Itx, unless that's a really bad idea, then I'm happy to listen...I have a 4k monitor already

Thanks in advance

Spot73 · 10 Mar 2021 at 17:21

Hey Benass, is there not a motherboard with build in GPU anywhere? (obviously eventually i could add a chunkier card)

Spot73 · 10 Mar 2021 at 20:37

EsaT said:
AMD is ahead of Intel in multithreaded performance and especially power efficiency:
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/i9W8M8HgGaTqRs4bVn5A39.png

No motherboard has integrated GPU.
That was last millenium and GPU has long been integrated into CPU, or not.
While Intel has kept spending silicon area into iGPU, AMD has GPU integrated only into models ending to G on desktop platform socket.
(and for Zen3 architecture iGPU models are so far made only for mobile platform instead of desktop)

If you're not after much of storage devices etc, Mini-ITX does fine with hot high end gaming graphics card.

Thanks, I'm clearly out of date with CPU's/GPU's....thanks for the info

Spot73 · 11 Mar 2021 at 16:40

thanks for the replies chaps, really appreciate it.......not sure about older generation chips as I'm looking for longevity, so would really rather stick to the newer generation chips, also quite happy to run a lower level graphics card (one that is immediately available) and then upgrade to something a bit chunkier as time goes on - i do quite fancy getting back in to MS flight sim thinking about it, but no rush.

Having scoured around - bearing in mind I'm pretty out of touch - the Ryzen7 5800 looks like a decent performer, so i'll have a look through the threads to see what's compatible and works well together, or, if you have any suggestions for components, i'm all ears.

thanks again, i know you guys are swamped with 'tell me what to buy' questions

Spot73 · 11 Mar 2021 at 18:31

That's great advice, thanks!, Are there any kinda top 5xx motherboards people recommend, same with memory, nVME M.2 drives and cooling?