Long overdue new build budget £1.5k

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Afternoon all, or whatever time of day it is :)

I've been having some problems with my current aging system for a while and after a morning looking on OCUK I've decided to bite the bullet and build a new machine.

I'm looking for something with a reasonably good spec as I do the odd bit of video editing and some music work. I'm having to work with current stock availability on OCUK and have decided on the list below.

I've not really been keeping up with builds and compatibility etc so just wanted to know have I got anything wrong with the following:

1. Corsair Carbide 275R Midi Tower Gaming Case - White Tempered Glass (CC-9011133-WW) £82.99
1. Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Pro Intel Z390 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard £189.95
1. Intel Core i7-9700K 3.6GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail £398.99
1. Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-21300C16 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (CMK32GX4M2A2) £128.99
1. Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 Gaming OC 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £259.99
1. Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500GB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive £128.99
1. Corsair RMi Series RM650i 650W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply (CP-9020081-UK) £149.99
1. Corsair Hydro Series iCUE H100i PRO XT RGB Performance Liquid Cooler - 240mm
(CW-9060043-WW) £119.99
1. Seagate 2TB Barracuda 7200RPM 256MB Cache Internal Hard Drive (ST2000DM008) £59.99
1. Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £6.49p Total: £1526.36p​

I've tried to keep a lid on the budget but as we all know dropping things in the basket can quickly add up. I think the above is a reasonably good build for what I need, I don't do any gaming or any thing like that.

Thanks for any help.
 
Swapped out:

- i7 (8c/8t) for Ryzen 7 (8c/16t) , should perform much better for your purposes
- faster ram
- 1660 for 1660 super (newer, much better model at same price/less)
- better value NVMe
- better value PSU

Liquid cooling is also unnecessary beyond aesthetics really so could swap that out for a decent air cooler if you wanted to save more.

Also the savings would let you upgrade to the 12c/ 24t 3900X which should be fantastic for music and video


My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,262.56 (includes shipping: £14.70)​
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Thanks for the recomendations bagel. I'll have a look at that. As I say it's been a long time since I did a build and things have moved on a lot.
The problem I found is the total in the basket can quickly run away, I was just looking and there are some graphics cards that cost more than I want to spend :eek::D:D
 
No worries, it's definitely weird to see AMD being recommended now for high end builds after so many years of intel domination! They have stepped up their game massively
 
Upper end of your budget:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,419.87 (includes shipping: £0.00)
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I'm not sure if your video editing software will benefit from your GPU or not, as such I've dropped down to a 1650, although you could get away with something cheaper again if everything is processed by the CPU considering you don't game.

Selected the 3900X as I'd assume you can make use of the 12c24t, if not drop to a 3700X

Went with 32GB of RAM as my experience with audio and video editing leans towards both happily being able to eat up memory.

Larger NvME that's just as fast for a little bit more cash.

The Mugen 5 is a solid HSF, if you really want to go with an AiO I'd recommend one of the following:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £274.93 (includes shipping: £0.00)​
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bagel said:
No worries, it's definitely weird to see AMD being recommended now for high end builds after so many years of intel domination! They have stepped up their game massively
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I automaticly went for Intel as that's what I always have done. AMD always used to be just that bit behind Intel. Silly really I should have considered both.

Thanks Gray2233. AMD do seem to be favoured by the looks of things.
 
Plenty of flexibility on this build, going with an AMD based system gives you more budget for a better GPU and still leaves you with £200 left over. With the extra cash you could swap out the 3700x and get a 3900X 12 core monster


My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,376.57 (includes shipping: £14.70)
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Freddie1980 said:
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,376.57 (includes shipping: £14.70)
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Thanks Freddie1980. I'm now going to have to give AMD a serious consideration given everyone so far has suggested AMD.

Thanks for the input folks.
 
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