Spec me a build for a photographer £2000

[mr griffin]

Hey guys after some advice as been out the game 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.

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.

 

[Danny75]

A lot of things today come with lights so you'll have to turn them off or just set to non-gaudy white light/no flashing.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Seasonic Focus Plus 650W 80 Plus Gold Modular Power Supply= £84.95
• 1 x Intel Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £398.99
• 1 x MSI Z370M Gaming Pro AC Intel Z370 (Socket 1151) DDR4 Micro-ATX Motherboard= £186.95
• 2 x EK Water Blocks EK-M.2 NVMe Heatsink - Nickel= £11.99
• 1 x Phanteks Enthoo Evolv Micro-ATX Glass Case - Silver= £104.99
• 1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC Gaming ACX 3.0 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £439.99
• 2 x Samsung 960 EVO Polaris 250GB M.2 2280 PCI-e 3.0 x4 NVMe Solid State Drive= £119.99
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Quad Channel Kit - Black (CMK32GX4M4B32= £299.99
• 1 x Toshiba P300 2TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache High Performance Hard Drive (HDWD120UZSVA)= £57.95
• 1 x Seagate BarraCuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (ST2000DM006)= £59.99
• 1 x be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 CPU Cooler= £74.99
• 1 x be quiet! Silent Wings 3 140mm High Speed Fan= £20.99

Total: £2,008.44
(includes shipping: £14.70)



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The MSI Micro-ATX board is a place-holder for the Asus Rog Strix Z370-G Gaming, which is not available in the UK just yet, I believe. No other Asus Z370 Micro-ATX boards at present.

2 x fast M.2 NVME SSDs, one for Windows and programs, the second for Cache etc for all his photo/video-editing programs, i.e. Scratch disk. Heatsinks for both of them so they don't throttle (or much).

2 different HDDs to lessen odds of bad luck with a bad batch. One for raw file library and final export storage, and the other for back-up (he should have more back-up in the form of external drive and cloud or other). If he needs larger size HDD he could get a GTX 1060 6GB instead.

Extra fan added for rear. The 2 x Phanteks 140mm can go at the front.

 

[Danny75]

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/ROG-STRIX-Z370-G-GAMING-WI-FI-AC/