First Gaming/ Photo Editing PC Build, deciding between skylake or devil's canyon

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
D

darknight00z

Reputable
Nov 10, 2015
13
0
4,510
Hi, this is my first PC build. I thought its time I built my own pc instead of a pre-made one.

I will be mainly using this rig for photo editing with the likes of Capture One and Photoshop and gaming triple A titles as well as Star CItizen! I feel the over clocked cpu will greatly benefit my photo work.

Depending the upcoming price drops with black friday coming up and all, I have made two builds, one is Skylake based and the other is Devil's Canyon based.

I am trying to get the best value for money from my build and whilst keeping costs down. I'll be planning to upgrade in 2 years or so anyway, so skylake or not its not a problem for the future.

I am currently rocking a 2012 Retina Macbook Pro that my parents got me for graduation. I have been spoiled by the retina display and I was wondering if there are any Monitor recommendations that can compete or be slightly below the retina display without breaking the bank. If there are any really nice 1080p, I would be open to that as well. The best would be sub £200, but I am open to suggestions.

Any advice or constructive criticism will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Skylake
PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/RW8hQ7

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£219.98 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (£99.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£129.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£75.78 @ More Computers)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£58.38 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.12 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Corsair Air 240 MicroATX Mid Tower Case (£73.94 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£56.99 @ Amazon UK)
Other: Gigabyte Windforce G1 GTX970
Total: £754.17


Devil's Canyon
PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/4ffKjX

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£165.41 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i 77.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (£99.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£109.99 @ Aria PC)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory (£62.05 @ More Computers)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£58.38 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.12 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Corsair Air 240 MicroATX Mid Tower Case (£73.94 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£56.99 @ Amazon UK)
Other: Gigabyte Windforce G1 GTX970
Total: £665.87


 
Sort by date Sort by votes
azaran

azaran

Splendid
Feb 17, 2010
3,594
0
26,960
Looks good, I'd lean towards the newer skylake build and if budget allows I'd personally recommend going for an i7 if Photoshop is a big factor in your build. A lot of the more common filters love the multi-threading.

One hard choice you may have to look at for monitors is going to be if your build is primarily for your photo work (IPS) or gaming (TN) panel. IPS is going to give you much better color values, but they have a slower response time than TN panels. Even inexpensive TN panels will give you a 1ms response time, but the color reproduction is sorely lacking. First you need to figure out if you care more about photography in the build or the gaming, after that your monitor selection will at least be narrowed down.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
smorizio

smorizio

Titan
Jan 22, 2010
30,984
9
125,315
in real world with ddr4 ram and the new encoders in the skylake cpu it going to be about 20 percent faster doing real world encoding over the older haswell. with haswell gone end of life and brodwell killed off. the 1150 slot is dead. wiith the newer mb there going to be curby lake and one other 1151 cpu for upgrade path for the newer mb. if you do go with haswell when you do the jump you have to replace the mb/cpu and ram. as it looks like you have a set build fund for the next few years hold off till 2016 for your build if you can or just the gpu purchase. both amd and nvidia have tapped out there next gpu cores and early in 2016 you may see them in retail.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
J

johnplow

Honorable
Sep 26, 2013
95
0
10,660
Hey darknight,

First up congrats on the new build!

As azaran mentioned the new instruction sets in the skylake CPU would be more beneficial all around. I would also swap that PSU out as suztera said as I have read those aren't that great. I would urge you look into an i7 over an i5 as the hyper threading present on the i7 will really make a difference in photoshop. Not so much in gaming (although as games are becoming more sophisticated they are starting to leverage more CPU muscle) but multithreaded programs like Photoshop will certainly benefit A LOT from extra threads.

I realize I am kinda rehashing azaran's post here so I'll just shut up and agree with his points on the monitors. I will say that as someone who works with photoshop daily having accurate color reproduction will be the most important thing you would need in a monitor, especially if you are doing a lot of print work. I would strongly recommend looking into an IPS display, unfortunately they can be a bit pricy. Sorry I can not really reccomend a good IPS display, but I would definitely suggest doing some research before you buy as all monitors are not created equal. I really like "Linus Tech Tips" on youtube. He does a TON of unboxing videos and is usually pretty thorough in his reviews, especially on his reviews on monitors.

Hope this helped!


 
Upvote 0 Downvote
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom