Hi, Really need some advice on first build since 2004

Jasonhession

Jasonhession

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Hi all, first build and PC since 2004 when I built a Athlon 2800

can you give me your advice below, basically for playing Forza and F1 and PC games for the kids but also video editing, mainly 1080 / 720

Is the spec ok? Do I need 32gig Ram for editing?
Anything you would change or anything that won’t work together

Thanks in advance and appreciated

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How much video editing do you do? I've been researching 16 v 32GB RAM recently, and tests showed 32GB RAM does provide a good improvement, then it's worth it if you do it enough.

What case, power supply and graphics card are you going to use? (you haven't listed any in your spec) - do you need an extra standard HDD to store video edits on or anything? Also, what's your overall budget?

That ASUS cooler is a complete waste of money too, unless you've got a fat budget and money to spare. The Samsung SSD is way over priced as well. That X570 mobo is also over priced and un-necessary.

If you could help answer the above, I'll chuck some suggestions at you. :)


EDIT: Based on your parts listed above being ~£1k, I'm assuming your budget is this if not a bit higher if you need other components?? Either way, put this together for now so you can mull it over...

3700X few more cores/threads for video editing, also helps with gaming too. 32GB RAM for the video editing and overall future proofing... 1TB M2 which is £40 cheaper than the Samsung and probably equal performance. PSU is one of the few in stock, it's a very good PSU anyway. 5600 XT is pretty much the top 1080p GPU. Mobo is a new B550 board on pre-order, stock I imagine is due to land soon...

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,250.89 (includes shipping: £0.00)
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Hi Sparx

Its a new build, was going for a B Quiet case

I was going for a Gigabyte 2070 Super
I was going 3600 DD4 as it wasn't the much more expensive

I am tryng to future proof for a couple of years, hence spending a bit more

Budget £1600 ish

Video editing, I have just got a 2 day a week contract on day rate for video editing, basically zoom conference calls in 1080, I also do a bit of gaming in spare time so like something to support that.
Zoom conferencing also only allows a 25 tile on my current mac, so wasn't to be able to get the full 7x7 grid due to mac ram and processor I beleive

I data process a lot of spreadsheets with large amount of macros tec.

Quite often I am multitasking, I have 2 1080 screens and quite often recording the zoom conferences while working on other media, at the money I have a laptop for zoom recording and a laptop I work on and want to move to one system

I have the power supply Super flower 650, I also already have a 3660X but could return it

I cant really hang on for the 550, I need to get this built this week really

Thanks for your help
 
The 3600X is no slouch don't get me wrong (I have one) - but personally if you want to future proof, I'd have gone for the 3700X over the 3600X if you do a lot of CPU intensive work like video editing, large Excel work etc... Your call mate :)

Either way, this is the revised basket then if you don't need a PSU just add whatever case you're after. I've swapped GPU to the 2070S which is more a 1440p card btw (also have one in my rig), so feel free to look into upgrading your monitor at some point if you like. Otherwise it's overkill for 1080p atm :D

Case is entirely your own preference. I presume you're not fussed about RGB with a BeQuiet case, so have swapped the RAM (also 3600MHz kit) to one in stock with you saying need it ordered & built ASAP. Also swapped to a good X570 mobo too in stock.

Which BeQuiet case are you going for out of interest?

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,347.95 (includes shipping: £0.00)
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Christ £250 on a full tower case?! Again seems a bit overkill imo :p The Phanteks I mentioned is a solid option and only £84 lol - again your call though :D Lots of brill case options in the <=£100 region.

I'd rather spend that money on swapping to the 3700X CPU and pocketing any change for now...

Did you need any extra storage like a mechanical HDD to store your video footage? Or do you have that covered already?
 
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