Pc build £2000 budget

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Sorry for the repost, but this is probably the appropriate place to have originally posted it.


since x99 landed.

So a good friend of mine has asked me to build him a pc tower only. for max budget of £2000
He is going to be using it for work as he's now a full time photographer.

He doesn't want a massive gaming tower with flashing lights. so I was thinking "silverstone tj08b-e" micro atx or midi tower size build.

Edit...But also a case that can house a full size mobo if its the best way to go he doesn't mind he said after just speaking to him

What i would really appreciate is some help choosing parts inside to give him the best performace that someone using raw photo images would need and encoding short videos.
Note; I do have a preference to asus motherboards and intel cpu's rightly or wrongly.

Thanks in advace. Advice much appreciated.
 
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touched up on here a few times that Intel wins hands down for photoshop work, but ryzen due to cores smashes video eiditing due to core/thread count

in theory....... what would have been perfect is Intel i7 8700 NON K - but the release price on it was only £2 less then a K version. now is £50 difference but itself as well as the K version has risen in price due to demand, seem to be around £315-50

If you wanted a small case that can house a full ATX board that is the same size as most mATX case then Raijintek has you covered or Jonsbo UMX4

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/raijintek-thetis-aluminium-atx-cube-black-window-ca-03a-rt.html

http://www.jonsbo.com/en/products_33_2.html

in theory his got the budget for X299 along with a 8 core chip

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £518.69
(includes shipping: £8.70)



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that should fly both for photoshop and video editing but it commands a lot over Ryzen 7 1700 which would be the sane choice over the two personally

Would recommend NVMe or standard SSD for OS as well as his editing application - then raid 1/ mirror for his storage/work drives
 
So u did danny thanks

Been out the game so not up on latest cpu's

Finding it hard to stay in budget on the 7820x build.

Do these 8700k chips run super hot?
How will it compare to the 7820x

Sorry for so many questions but been out the game a few years
 
mr griffin said:
So u did danny thanks

Been out the game so not up on latest cpu's

Finding it hard to stay in budget on the 7820x build.

Do these 8700k chips run super hot?
How will it compare to the 7820x

Sorry for so many questions but been out the game a few years
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It does well temp-wise at stock, some reviews showed it at 20C cooler than a Kaby Lake i7-7700K at stock speed/Vcore during Aida stressing (60C v 80C). It's when you start overclocking it that you can run into a temp barrier. For example in one review they hit around 90C during Aida at 1.37 Vcore 5GHz, which would translate into 70-75 max gaming temps which is fine (won't run at that temp all the time while gaming either). Cooling was with Kraken X52. Big air coolers are just as good depending on airflow etc but a big 280mm or 360mm liquid AIO would perhaps be a more safe bet. Only by a few degrees though, and budget could lead to air cooler.

So if you land a good chip, you could hit 5GHz without delidding. If not, 4.8 or 4.9.

Have a look at 8700K v 7820X here and here, you'll see it's give and take, so regardless of your choice you'll get very good results. Of greater importance than a slightly faster processor is using two SSDs to separate the writes and reads and not bottleneck a single drive.

Price for 8700K should come down a bit around 1st November when more stock is expected.
 
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