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sid-180

sid-180

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Looking at putting the following together mainly for photo editing as I cannot justify the price for Apple hardware these days!

-I7-9700K 3.6GHZ (COFFEE LAKE) 9th Gen

-CORSAIR VENGEANCE LPX 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 3000 MHz

-Powercolor AMD RX 580 8GB DDR5 Red Dragon Graphics Card

-Intel 660p Series 1TB, M.2 SSD

-NZXT Kraken M22 120mm Liquid Cooler

-Gigabyte Z390 GAMING X LGA 1151 DDR4 ATX Motherboard

-H500 MIDI TOWER GAMING CASE - BLACK WINDOW


Let me know what you think? or if there any areas that I could improve on!
 
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,365.02 (includes shipping: £13.20)
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shop around for the best prices. can get this build closer to £1200 :)


but my advice is to wait and see what ryzen 3000 brings to the table. might get a better system for the price :)
if you want/need to get it now now, then 9900k is the better option.
 
Intel 660p, like Samsung 860 QVO, uses pretty much analog storage QLC Flash, which needs to differentiate 16 charge levels to avoid errors!
It simply doesn't have any tolerance for leaking of charge/interference.
Would recommend not touching them for few years, unless you like being real world reliability beta tester.
Corsair MP510 would use TLC (8 charge levels) if you want NVMe drive.
(likely not much difference to SATA in real performance)

That waterpipe fashion cooler likely gets beaten by most high end heatpipe coolers in cooling per noise.
This beats lot bigger ones than it for £43:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/scythe-scmg-5100-mugen-5-rev.b-cpu-cooler-hs-046-sy.html

And unless current PC is rotting to pieces would be good to wait for release of Zen2 Ryzens in 7th of next month.
Only thing Intel is likely going to have after that is less performance per price, higher power consumption and more security patches needing vulnerabilities than Swiss cheese has holes.
 
Echo as above, don't make any firm plans, in a shade over 3 weeks you'll see what is what, and get the best value for your hard earned £'s :)
 
Journey said:
Echo as above, don't make any firm plans, in a shade over 3 weeks you'll see what is what, and get the best value for your hard earned £'s :)
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Fair enough, i shall hold fire :)

I was either going down the hackintosh route with my original spec or just do standard windows install.
 
sid-180 said:
Fair enough, i shall hold fire :)

I was either going down the hackintosh route with my original spec or just do standard windows install.
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Ryzen 3 should catch up and 12 core could overtake, but with adobe, its always been about speed! Lightroom uses cores and SPEED together

Photoshop... just pure SPEED!

can see 6 core 6 thread 9600k at stock beats 2700x 8 core 16 thread cpu

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Lightroom-Classic-CC-2019-CPU-Roundup-Intel-vs-AMD-1298/

now 12 Core Ryzen 3900x might be worth it! but you'll be looking at high end board, 3733hz ram and damn good cooling to push the OC or auto precision boost as high as it can go - AMD stated this time around they aim to clock all cores as high as the can go - but still advertise single highest core boost... so have to wait for reviews on that one

Surprisingly, Vega 64 does well !

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/a...C-2019-Enhanced-Details-GPU-Performance-1366/

might be worth waiting for Navi RX 5700 XT - gaming wise its bang on equal to RTX 2070 (not really meant to mention that , but this isnt about gaming )

more a fan of physical cores over HT/SMT/ logical cores ... sums it up right

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/a...-Core-Processors-good-for-photo-editing-1257/

splash the cash on the 9900k if you can and push 5ghz all cores or 12 core ryzen 3900x after some reviews


photoshop CPU

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Photoshop-CC-2019-CPU-Roundup-Intel-vs-AMD-vs-Mac-1295/

might save yourself and grab I7 9700K instead!

GPU performance. Ditch the RX 580 and go GTX 1660 Ti or RTX 2060 or Vega 56/64/ rx 5700

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Photoshop-CC-2019-AMD-Radeon-VII-16GB-Performance-1379/

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My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,299.94 (includes shipping: £14.10)​
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orbitalwalsh said:
Ryzen 3 should catch up and 12 core could overtake, but with adobe, its always been about speed! Lightroom uses cores and SPEED together

Photoshop... just pure SPEED!

can see 6 core 6 thread 9600k at stock beats 2700x 8 core 16 thread cpu

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Lightroom-Classic-CC-2019-CPU-Roundup-Intel-vs-AMD-1298/

now 12 Core Ryzen 3900x might be worth it! but you'll be looking at high end board, 3733hz ram and damn good cooling to push the OC or auto precision boost as high as it can go - AMD stated this time around they aim to clock all cores as high as the can go - but still advertise single highest core boost... so have to wait for reviews on that one

Surprisingly, Vega 64 does well !

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/a...C-2019-Enhanced-Details-GPU-Performance-1366/

might be worth waiting for Navi RX 5700 XT - gaming wise its bang on equal to RTX 2070 (not really meant to mention that , but this isnt about gaming )

more a fan of physical cores over HT/SMT/ logical cores ... sums it up right

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/a...-Core-Processors-good-for-photo-editing-1257/

splash the cash on the 9900k if you can and push 5ghz all cores or 12 core ryzen 3900x after some reviews


photoshop CPU

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Photoshop-CC-2019-CPU-Roundup-Intel-vs-AMD-vs-Mac-1295/

might save yourself and grab I7 9700K instead!

GPU performance. Ditch the RX 580 and go GTX 1660 Ti or RTX 2060 or Vega 56/64/ rx 5700

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Photoshop-CC-2019-AMD-Radeon-VII-16GB-Performance-1379/

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My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £1,299.94 (includes shipping: £14.10)
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Thanks for taking the time for replying, will def check out the links :)
 
sid-180 said:
Thanks for taking the time for replying, will def check out the links :)
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deals like the Corsair 650w with 10 yr warranty are pretty sweet. along with B-Grade p600s if you want to take the plung and save a food £35 odd etc

pushing 3600hz 32GB of ram will be expensive though!

cheapest is actually getting 4000hz ram! a £150 a pop , which is damn good value for 16gb at that speed. only problem is, ryzen 3000 imc is greatly improved , but for 4 dimms, you'll be looking at X570 aorus or similar PCB with 6 layers

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £308.68 (includes shipping: £8.70)​
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but , reviews should show peformance difference between current ryzen 3000/3200 speeds and 3600+ !
 
orbitalwalsh said:
GPU performance. Ditch the RX 580 and go GTX 1660 Ti or RTX 2060 or Vega 56/64/ rx 5700
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To be fair, if you have a look at their previous reviews, GPU does very little for Adobe. They're all within a few % of each other...
Could probably skimp a little on the GPU to get a better CPU lol
 
tamzzy said:
To be fair, if you have a look at their previous reviews, GPU does very little for Adobe. They're all within a few % of each other...
Could probably skimp a little on the GPU to get a better CPU lol
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wondering how Vega 56 price will crash with rx5700 Pro and RTX 2060 super coming out . Guessing it depends on the full use of adobe for OP.

damn.. 3 weeks... its soooo long !
 
orbitalwalsh said:
wondering how Vega 56 price will crash with rx5700 Pro and RTX 2060 super coming out . Guessing it depends on the full use of adobe for OP.

damn.. 3 weeks... its soooo long !
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Or the 1660ti/2060...tbh...well overpriced to begin with.
State of computer components is depressing.
Top end 3770k in 2013 was $330...now only gets midrange 3700x
8gb ddr3 ram was £23 at its cheapest...now 8gb ddr4 ram is £50...
And don't get me started on GPUs lol...
 
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