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I'm building a new rig primarily used for photo and video editing and some gaming.

The setup so far:
i7700K
Asus Prime z270k
Kingston HyperX Fury 2x8gb cl14 2133Mhz

a Geforce GPU, CPU cooler, PSU, case to be decided...

For editing the bottleneck appears to be storage. I have a Segate 3tb I plan to use for archive but would need one or two working drives.

Is it better to use one NVMe m.2 drive of 512 GB or should I use a bigger SATA III drive?
 
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Video editing is one of those apps that benefits from more cores, more RAM, faster RAM/. So yes 7700k if not a jump to a workstation platform. Avoid comparisons between stock CPUs / GPUs which don't account for huge differences in overclocking headroom

RAM, as much and as fast as you can afford. There's no real big proce jump till ya go over 3200 tho low CAS will add to that cost

I'd use two SSDs, one for OS and programs and a second as a scratch drive.

Video editing software loves CUDA
https://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm

PSU sized according to the GFX card size and budget ... Seasonic prime if budget not an issue.

For the cooler... Noctua NH-D15 for the best air cooling performance, much better than any...
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From what I've read editing applications I use do benefit from higher stock frequency of 7700K vs 7700. I agree I could use h270 mobo If I decide to give up on overclocking in the future.

So in practice ther shouldn't be much difference between SATA an NVME? So the reported 1500 Mb/s vs cca 500 Mb/s specs don't really matter?

 
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Go with Ryzen 5 1600 or 1700 they have way shorter rendering and encoding times in Adobe Premiere and After effects. When video editing number of cores matters more then frequency.

As for SSD go, real life performance difference between SATA express and SATA III SSDs is very limited, so I'd go with something cheap and reliable like Samsung Evo 850 with bigger capacity (you're gonna need it when rendering big raw HD video files).
 
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Actually I mostly do photo editing in Lightroom which does not work well with many cores but prefers higher frequency on fewer cores. If I were only doing video editing I think AMD would be better choice

 
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not much really but it really depends on the programs. here is a vid that may help you decide

https://www.techspot.com/news/67222-storage-real-world-performance-nvme-vs-sata-vs-hdd.html

 
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Video editing is one of those apps that benefits from more cores, more RAM, faster RAM/. So yes 7700k if not a jump to a workstation platform. Avoid comparisons between stock CPUs / GPUs which don't account for huge differences in overclocking headroom

RAM, as much and as fast as you can afford. There's no real big proce jump till ya go over 3200 tho low CAS will add to that cost

I'd use two SSDs, one for OS and programs and a second as a scratch drive.

Video editing software loves CUDA
https://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm

PSU sized according to the GFX card size and budget ... Seasonic prime if budget not an issue.

For the cooler... Noctua NH-D15 for the best air cooling performance, much better than any 2 x 120mm CLC ... Swiftech H240 X2 if ya wanna cool both CPU and GPU. Cae... If performance is paramount and aesthetics are important, can't go wrong with the Enthoo Luxe or Evolv Tempered Glass models.
 
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In that case, I'd safe myself some money and go with i3-7350K or even i3-7100. Unless you'll be doing 2D to 3D image manipulation, you won't notice any real time difference between 7700K and i3. We are talking few hundred ms difference.

I've been working with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Light room etc. programs professionally as multimedia editor for 12 years and I didn't experience any real life performance difference when using Xeon E5450, i3, i7 and lastly 32 cores Xeon CPUs (we're talking opening and editing 300 or more 12 mega px photos). Video editing and 3D modelling was another story.
 
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