New build for a new film editor

RenegadePhoenix · Feb 3, 2017

Hi guys, building a new rig as my pc is about 6 years old now and have a good enough budget for it, love to get advice on a couple points:

Firstly our usage is I'm a gamer with some photoshop use, my partner has recently been promoted as an Editor so is using After effects/avid/some rendering. Honestly she's relatively new to doing editing at home so we're not sure the kind of power she'll need for it.

Current plot is:

Motherboard: Maximus hero IX
Processor: I7 7700K
Cooler: Deepcool Captain 240
GPU: GTX1080 STRIX
RAM: G skill Trident 16GB
SSD: M.2 960PRO 512GB
PSU: 850 EVGA supernova P2

Still unsure as to whether we would need 32GB ram or 16 and whether we should wait for Ryzen or not.

Does the system look enough to handle that or are we significantly overspending somewhere?

Thanks!
Alex and Nessa

sadams04 · Feb 3, 2017

You are on the right track. My thoughts are below.

CPU COOLER - Fine and all, but expensive. A good air cooler will do just as good of a job for less cost.
MB - Again... fine, but overkill.
MEM - You are looking at boards with four memory slots with the Z270 chipset so consider going with 16GB with the option to add more later. Just make sure they match the specs of what you purchase now (including the latency and voltage). With that said, it appears you have the budget to go with 32GB now...
SSD - Great SSD, but not sure you will take advantage of its speed with your intended uses. Consider scaling down and look at the Crucial MX300, Sandisk X400, WD Blue or SK Hynix.
GPU - Higher factory overclock for less cost with the EVGA below.
PSU - The EVGA G2 / G3 is all you need. The P2 is a bit of overkill. If you want to leave the option open for adding a second GTX 1080 in SLI, then 850w is a good size. For a single GTX 1080 look toward a 550w unit.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($349.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H5 Ultimate 76.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($46.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270H ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($173.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill TridentZ Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($199.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Crucial MX300 525GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($148.05 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 8GB Superclocked Gaming ACX 3.0 Video Card ($604.98 @ Newegg)
Case: Fractal Design Define R4 w/Window (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case ($79.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G3 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($129.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $1783.95

RenegadePhoenix · Feb 3, 2017

sadams04 :

You are on the right track. My thoughts are below.

CPU COOLER - Fine and all, but expensive. A good air cooler will do just as good of a job for less cost.
MB - Again... fine, but overkill.
MEM - You are looking at boards with four memory slots with the Z270 chipset so consider going with 16GB with the option to add more later. Just make sure they match the specs of what you purchase now (including the latency and voltage). With that said, it appears you have the budget to go with 32GB now...
SSD - Great SSD, but not sure you will take advantage of its speed with your intended uses. Consider scaling down and look at the Crucial MX300, Sandisk X400, WD Blue or SK Hynix.
GPU - Higher factory overclock for less cost with the EVGA below.
PSU - The EVGA G2 / G3 is all you need. The P2 is a bit of overkill. If you want to leave the option open for adding a second GTX 1080 in SLI, then 850w is a good size. For a single GTX 1080 look toward a 550w unit.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($349.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H5 Ultimate 76.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($46.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270H ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($173.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill TridentZ Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($199.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Crucial MX300 525GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($148.05 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 8GB Superclocked Gaming ACX 3.0 Video Card ($604.98 @ Newegg)
Case: Fractal Design Define R4 w/Window (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case ($79.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G3 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($129.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $1783.95

Thanks for your help! We're in the UK so for us the cost of the two GPUS are the same so may stick with STRIX, we'll downgrade the PSU and M.2 (what would use it then?), I've heard if you buy ram from different batches they can under-perform? Is that a myth/negligible difference?

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