Is it a good system?

[harpbluesman@gm]

Is this a good system? Can it be improved somehow? Can I save something having same quality?
Video and photo editing only, no gaming at all.
Thanks guys

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Asus Z170 Pro Gaming Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £139.99
• 1 x Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £338.99
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C15 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (CMK16GX4M2B30= £98.99
• 1 x MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Armour OC 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £269.99
• 1 x Samsung 250GB 750 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Solid State Drive= £74.99
• 1 x Seagate 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST1000DM003)= £43.99
• 1 x be quiet! System Power 8 600W 80 Plus Power Supply - Black= £53.99
• 1 x TP-Link Archer T8E AC1750 Wireless Dual Band PCI Express Adapter= £49.99
• 1 x Cougar Evolution Full Gaming Tower Chassis - Black Side Window= £79.99
• 1 x Asus 24x DVD±RW DRW-24D5MT SATA ReWriter - Black (Retail)= £16.99

Total: £1,167.90
(includes shipping: £0.00)
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[harpbluesman@gm]

What gpu would you use?

 

[harpbluesman@gm]

This is a question you should be able to answer if your currently using the applications this PC is being specced for.
If it is something your getting into, then as far as I am aware, Nvidia's 1060 and 1070 are regarded as ok for Video and Photo editing systems if the applications utilise them. Such as YouTube Content creator, but if your doing CAD, Cuda or Open CL then your looking at workstation cards.

Don't buy a GPU unless you know exactly in what manner it will be utilised and beneficial to the specific applications you require.

For in depth video and photo editing you may not even need a GPU, and may well benefit from 6 cores, but again, this completely depends on the size of projects and how large they are.


Some old benchmarks that may be worth reading.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i7-4770k-haswell-review,3521-13.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-workstation-graphics-card,3493.html

For me if it was work related to photo and video I would go X99 and more cores, and look at what applications I use benefit from what GPU.

Can you specify what applications and projects you intend to do on the PC?

Below is the sort of items I would expect, not including GPU or software or expansion slot periphials. Not intended as a complete system regarding the drives though.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Intel i7-5820K 3.30GHz (Haswell-E) Socket LGA2011-V3 Processor - OEM (CM8064801548435)= £371.99
• 1 x MSI X99A SLI Plus Intel X99 (Socket 2011) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £187.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Quad Channel Kit - White (TLWED416G3000HC16= £89.99
• 1 x Samsung PM961 Polaris 256GB M.2-2880 PCI-e 3.0 x 4 NVMe Solid State Drive= £129.95
• 1 x Samsung PM951 512GB M.2 PCI-e 3.0 x 4 NVMe Solid State Drive (MZVLV512HCJH-00000)= £149.99
• 1 x Samsung 1.0TB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E1T0B/EU)= £329.99
• 1 x Super Flower Platinum King 650W 80 Plus Platinum Power Supply - Black= £87.95
• 1 x Fractal Design Define R5 Midi Tower Case - Blackout Edition= £99.95
• 1 x Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler= £29.99
• 1 x Hitachi Deskstar 4TB NAS 7K4000 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (0S03356)= £139.99

Total: £1,631.88
(includes shipping: £14.10)
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Thanks,I like this build.I think I am going to follow your suggestion.

 

[harpbluesman@gm]

I'm not getting payed for the work I want to do, although I want to have a good system in case I can make same money out of my work.
I will probably be using Adobe Photoshop and Premier.