I wanna make an expensive first build.. need your advice so that nothing goes wrong..!

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My PC's purpose would be for music production (with the least possible amount of lag and glitches) and video/ graphics creation. My budget would be max 3700 €.

This is the list of parts I'm thinking of buying:

Case: Corsair Crystal Series 570X

CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K

Motherboard: ASUS STRIX Z270E GAMING (90MB0RN0-M0EAY0)

Graphics Card: EVGA GeForce GTX1070 8GB (08G-P4-5170-KR) (or GTX1080)

Cooler: Corsair Hydro Series H100i v2 (CW-9060025-WW)

Memory: GSkill TridentZ RGB 32GB (4x8GB) 3200MHz DDR4 C14, RGB

Storages: HDD: Western Digital BLACK 4TB 3.5″ 7200RPM
SSD: SAMSUNG MZ-V5P512BW

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 850 P2 (X2)

Optical Drive: LG WH14NS40 Blu-ray Writer Optical Drive 14X BDR

Any improvements, recommendations and pointing out of problems would be welcome.

 
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At that price
1) look into running a pair of WD in RAID (either MB raid using Intel drivers or WIN10's raid. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12438/windows-10-storage-spaces) That way when a drive fails you don't lose your music / video
2) Look into a backup solutions (external USB drive you copy data to then unplug from your PC)
3) Verify that your Video creation SW uses the video card you select for acceleration. You are getting a great video card, might as well use it.
4) Going with Ryzen is likely best LONG term. Right now all the SW you want is optimized for the Intel you selected. You can't go wrong either way. I know I'd use the Intel to avoid risk. Others would use the Ryzen to avoid regret in 2 years.
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Firstly you have listed (x2) on the Power Supply? 1x SuperNOVA 850 will be plenty to run this build with room to spare. I strongly suggest you take a look at the Ryzen 7 CPUs as they are very powerful at Workstation usages such as Editing, Rendering, etc as you listed. Do you specially need the Trident Z RGB RAM for the aesthetics? If not you could save some cash on a non-RGB kit like Corsair Vengeance LPX or G-Skill Ripjaws V. Also, your case does not have a 5.25'' bay for the optical drive. Hope this helps :)

*Edit* Here is a partlist > https://fr.pcpartpicker.com/list/Ygyfjc. with all your components + a few changes i made. Changes include:

- Changed case to a Corsair 750D Airflow Edition so you can fit an optical drive, still a solid case.
- RAM is 32GB G-Skill Ripjaws V (4x8GB)
- New Motherboard (MSI Carbon X370 Pro) with a Ryzen 7 1800X.
 
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At that price
1) look into running a pair of WD in RAID (either MB raid using Intel drivers or WIN10's raid. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12438/windows-10-storage-spaces) That way when a drive fails you don't lose your music / video
2) Look into a backup solutions (external USB drive you copy data to then unplug from your PC)
3) Verify that your Video creation SW uses the video card you select for acceleration. You are getting a great video card, might as well use it.
4) Going with Ryzen is likely best LONG term. Right now all the SW you want is optimized for the Intel you selected. You can't go wrong either way. I know I'd use the Intel to avoid risk. Others would use the Ryzen to avoid regret in 2 years.
 
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