Building new i7 PC advice wanted

Swiss1

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I am looking upgrading my old PC Quad QC9450 with an Intel i7 setup. Originally I was considering the 4790K, but now thinking about the 6700K as it is the same price and the motherboards chipsets are better and for DDR4.

This is for non-gaming, I sometime do photo editing and video editing. My old machine will be reused in another case with a new SSD to make it run better. Hardware list that I am considering:

i7-6700K - Skylake processor
Samsung 850 Pro Seeries SSD 512Gb
AS Rock Z170 Extreme 6+ (has USB 3.1 with type A and B which could be useful in future)
G.SKILL RipJaws 4, 32GB (F4-2800C16Q-32GRK)

I was looking at adding a separate video card like the: GIGABYTE GV-N750OC-2GL, GeForce GTX 750 OC, 2.0GB GDDR5, PCI-Express. But the onboard graphics will probably be as good as this and was not looking at spending much more on a card.

Any advice, feedback or recommendations would be gratefully received.

Thanks
 
For non-gaming I am going to assume no overclocking as well...

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($242.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($81.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Mushkin Stealth 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($71.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($89.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($50.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GT 730 1GB Video Card ($49.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case: Deepcool TESSERACT SW ATX Mid Tower Case ($43.98 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($55.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NSC0B DVD/CD Writer ($12.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $700.70
 

Swiss1

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Thanks, I will have a closer look at this spec and the individual hardware... I don't need to buy all those things, I will reuse the case PSU DVD drives and maybe the hard drives as additional storage (have 2 500Gb WD drives as a Mirror set).

Case: Thermaltake Aguila
PSU: Corsair VX450W

I don't intend to upgrade for a long time after this so want a reasonably current and high specification.
 

logainofhades

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If you are going to be using Sony Vegas, then an AMD card would be quite useful. If not, I would pick up the faster GDDR5 GT 730. Many video and photo editing programs use CUDA, so the faster GPU would be useful. Also some GT 730 have less cuda cores than others. Not sure what Nvidia was thinking with that one. I would not reuse that PSU. It is a low quality unit. The 550w in sadams04's build is a great unit.

Nvidia build
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($242.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 PRO4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($75.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Mushkin Stealth 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($71.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Crucial BX100 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($83.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GT 730 2GB Video Card ($65.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($55.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $596.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-10 14:07 EDT-0400

AMD Build
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($242.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 PRO4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($75.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Mushkin Stealth 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($71.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Crucial BX100 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($83.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R7 360 2GB Video Card ($108.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($55.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $639.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-10 14:10 EDT-0400