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Hey guys, just about to buy this setup from Umart and thought it would be a good idea to have a last minute checkover! I'm using it for programs such as photoshop, premier pro and illustrator eg. I chose the R5 case because it's a bigger mid case than normal and for its clean look. Thoughts on it for air flow? Thanks in advance! :)

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor ($569.00 @ PCCaseGear)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212X 82.9 CFM CPU Cooler ($52.00 @ Umart)
Motherboard: Asus X99-A ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($399.00 @ Storm Computers)
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($103.40 @ Newegg Australia)
Storage: Samsung 850 Pro Series 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($179.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($229.00 @ Centre Com)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card ($499.00 @ CPL Online)
Case: Fractal Design Define R5 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($169.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($159.00 @ CPL Online)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NSB0 DVD/CD Writer ($19.00 @ IJK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) ($139.00 @ CPL Online)
Monitor: Asus VC239H 60Hz 23.0" Monitor ($179.00 @ PLE Computers)
Keyboard: Corsair K30 Wired Gaming Keyboard ($87.00 @ CPL Online)
Mouse: Logitech G502 Wired Optical Mouse ($61.00 @ Umart)
Total: $2843.40
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-03-18 13:01 AEDT+1100
 
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As Suzuki said, have your drive structure look more like this to start and then add larger scratch (if needed) or more storage/backup (RAID?) as you produce content and need the space:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor ($569.00 @ PCCaseGear)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212X 82.9 CFM CPU Cooler ($52.00 @ Umart)
Motherboard: Asus X99-A ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($399.00 @ Storm Computers)
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($103.40 @ Newegg Australia)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($94.00 @ Umart)
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indirectMW

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I'd prefer Umart as I live in Australia and it has some very competitive prices as well as a large product range. What is the bottleneck you are referring to? Appreciate the quick reply!


I'm designing apparel so large vector images and also editing fairly decent amounts of HD video plus photoshoots. I plan on initially just using the SSD for boot and editing and then once I finish the edit transferring it to the HDD. Thanks for the lighting reply!

E: Plan on upgrading to larger SSD build in the near future once prices go a tad lower.

 
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OS and scratch should both have their own SSD. Depending on filé sizes or proxies, you could start with 250 GB.

Media drive I recommend Raid 1 if you dont have a backup solution.

Export drive wont matter. You wont be bottlenecked if it happens to be a hard drive.

Thats all i can tell you. What type of projects, codec, all of these things matter if you want to be picky.
 
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As Suzuki said, have your drive structure look more like this to start and then add larger scratch (if needed) or more storage/backup (RAID?) as you produce content and need the space:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor ($569.00 @ PCCaseGear)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212X 82.9 CFM CPU Cooler ($52.00 @ Umart)
Motherboard: Asus X99-A ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard ($399.00 @ Storm Computers)
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($103.40 @ Newegg Australia)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($94.00 @ Umart)
Storage: Samsung 850 Pro Series 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($179.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Storage: Western Digital Blue 2TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive ($105.00 @ CPL Online)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($69.00 @ Centre Com)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card ($499.00 @ CPL Online)
Case: Fractal Design Define R5 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($169.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($159.00 @ CPL Online)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NSB0 DVD/CD Writer ($19.00 @ IJK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) ($139.00 @ CPL Online)
Monitor: Asus VC239H 60Hz 23.0" Monitor ($179.00 @ PLE Computers)
Keyboard: Corsair K30 Wired Gaming Keyboard ($79.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Mouse: Logitech G502 Wired Optical Mouse ($61.00 @ Umart)
Total: $2874.40
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

 
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Just because I am also building a new computer for similar goals / needs could you explain why 4 different hard drives? Also could an existing external hard drive take the place of one of those Western Digital?
 
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Bettie Blue, feel free to start a new thread, I'll be happy to help if I see it.

You want to isolate the different workloads. Your media, scratch, OS needs to be seperated, otherwise they overlap and slow down overall performance, as they are then sharing the resources available.

An external hard drive could work. Just one thing, make sure you're using the fastest bus, you want to use USB 3, even if it's a hard drive. Otherwise you'll be limiting the hard drive's performance. There are some fantastic hard drive bays on Amazon for instance, which is using SATA -> USB 3, it's just plug and play.

If you ment to use an external drive as a dedicated export drive, then that's fine. USB 2's max speed of 60 MB/s actually won't really bottleneck you here.

 
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Thanks, I understand the need to backup the media drive but do you think I should back up the export drive as well and if so, what setup would you recommend?



Thanks for chucking this together, visualising it makes it so much easy. I presume the 256GB Pro is for OS and programs, the 120GB Evo to act as the scratch [still really not sure how a scratch works; do you add your current projects to it and then move them over to the export/media(media drive is for unedited content and export is for finished?) drive?] and now this is where I am still trying to figure out... Is the 2TB, being a 5400RPM, for the exported files and the 1TB 7200RPM for the media because simply because the export drive doesn't need to be super fast? If this is the case and I'm wanting to RAID 1 my media drive and export drive, should I add another 2TB 5400RPM drive and 1TB 7200RPM? Thanks to anyone who answers this! :)

 
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to use 4 channel mode you need to get 4x4gb ram, not 2x8 and since you are buiding it for editing better go with 4x8gb.
750w are overkill, 650w is the right size
way overpriced this ring in AU
 
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