I overpaid for this build!

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I finally have purchased all the parts (bar one or 2 final items) for my gaming / workstation / editing and streaming build. Way over budget but the market is screwed right now!

My budget was £1300 to £1400 max! LMAO

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/Kobrax/saved/JzrLrH

PCPartPicker part list: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/ywnLr6
Price breakdown by merchant: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/ywnLr6/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 1700 3.0GHz 8-Core Processor (£241.52 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: Noctua - NH-D15 SE-AM4 140.2 CFM CPU Cooler (£79.99 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: MSI - X370 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM ATX AM4 Motherboard (£128.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill - Flare X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (£240.88 @ Alza)
Storage: Crucial - MX500 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£115.18 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Toshiba - 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£72.40 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Asus - GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Video Card (£599.99 @ Aria PC)
Case: Fractal Design - Define R5 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case (£96.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£100.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case Fan: Fractal Design - HF14-BK 118.2 CFM 140mm Fan (£17.86 @ Amazon UK)
Keyboard: Corsair - STRAFE RGB Wired Gaming Keyboard (£124.98 @ Amazon UK)
Mouse: Logitech - G502 Proteus Spectrum Wired Optical Mouse (£74.99 @ Amazon UK)

Total: £1894.76


I wanted to go with a Samsung 960 Evo Nvme M.2 for Premiere Pro project files but at over £200 for a 500GB nvme drive zone couldnt justify that at this stage although that is next in line after a 3 or 4TB HDD to hold finished projects.

For the graphics card I had budgeted £400 but was never going to go from anything less than a GTX 1070 and the current state of the GPU market saw me paying more than GTX 1080 prices. I had already bought most of the other components before I realised though.

I also plan to buy the Noctua Chromax to make the awful Brown NH-D15 something other than an eyes sore.

But yeh.. Finally have my build together and just need to build it.

Just wanted to gather some opinions on it as it's my 1st build and d you have any last minute suggestions (additions as I have bought everything here except the 3TB HDD.
 
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Do you REALLY need a 3TB drive? I would go with a WD as I don't trust Toshiba drives. They are the cheap ones used in budget laptops that tend to fail after a year and a half. Never used their desktop drives but can't imagine they are much better
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Storage needs vary from user to user. But you do know that Western Digital owns Toshiba's storage division now, right? They're one in the same now.

OP - The only thing you really overpaid on is the GPU and the RAM. RAM prices are absolutely ridiculous currently, as is the GPU market which you already mentioned. That build looks good. I have an R7-1700 and it is an excellent CPU right now.
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Do you REALLY need a 3TB drive? I would go with a WD as I don't trust Toshiba drives. They are the cheap ones used in budget laptops that tend to fail after a year and a half. Never used their desktop drives but can't imagine they are much better
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Storage needs vary from user to user. But you do know that Western Digital owns Toshiba's storage division now, right? They're one in the same now.

OP - The only thing you really overpaid on is the GPU and the RAM. RAM prices are absolutely ridiculous currently, as is the GPU market which you already mentioned. That build looks good. I have an R7-1700 and it is an excellent CPU right now.
 
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I really do need 3TB storage. Possibly 4 or more. Because my rendered videos are large files sizes, I already have well over 1TB HDD filled pretty quickly on my old PC.

Toshiba do good HDD drives for desktop as far as I now. It's Seagate I have always stayed away from.

I am hoping to have a 500gb Nvme drive for media and raw files and another 500gb Nvme as just a scratch disk / media cache storage. The my 3/4TB HDD will hold all rendered videos in a neatly organised layout.

Any SSDs I have will hold apps and programs.

I do use a lot of storage. Even my Samsung 7 has over 500GB used data over about 8 64GB micro SD cards.
 
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I would also recommend WD, choose the red series for less noise.
 
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Yeah they're decent. Western Digital owns Toshiba's storage division now which includes mechanical drives and SSDs, I would definitely say they're OK to use. The only drives I would stay away from are the Seagate Barracudas.
 
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I've been using Seagate expansion drives for my videos for about six years now. I have four of them and I have never had a problem. They are always cheaper and have always been reliable. I agree on the barracuda drives though.
 
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