Putting together a system for my son.. advice

[angry12345]

Ok.. now I built my first PC about 2 years ago and love it. Everything went well for it spent $1400 and it would have cost me $1700 if I had it built so very pleased.

My son just turned 14 and graduated 8th grade. My wife made a deal with him if he got straight A's we would buy him a PC. She assumed not possible because he had never done it before. (I knew this was a bad idea because I knew he did not have straight As cause he had no incentive). Naturally he got all straight As

Currently, he has been using some bargain basement HP which is brother threw in a nVidia 650. It was fine since he played Minecraft only at the time. Story behind that but another time.

Now though, he is playing games like League of Legends which works fine, and other MMOs like Gary's Mod. No big deal there, but he has also gotten into video editing. He splices up anime's and music into 6 second clips for VINE. Nothing too intense, but I do know that video editing is a bit more intensive than gaming rigs which I prefer an i5 for.

He uses:

Editing programs I use - Sony Vegas and Camtasia Studio 8

One I want to learn - Adobe After Effects, Final Cut Pro X

Plugins I use - Newblue FX, Sapphire Pluggins, Twixtor Pro

Plugins I want - ReelSmart Motion Blur

Recording software I use - Screen -o- Matic

Now I refuse to build it for him myself because he will not stop using cracked software and torrent and infesting devices with crap. I rather have it have a warranty and go that route. I of course want to be cheap as possible too..

How does this work?

Gaming Chassis: * APEVIA X-Pioneer Mid-Tower ATX gaming case w/USB 3.1, Side Panel Window (Black & Green)
CPU: Intel® Core™ Processor i7-6700 3.40GHZ 8MB Intel Smart Cache LGA1151 (Skylake)
CPU / Processor Cooling Fan: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO CPU Cooler w/ PWM fan - Efficient Cooling Performance
Motherboard: ASRock Z170 PRO4S ATX w/ 2 PCIe x16, 3 PCIe x1, 2 SATA Express, 6 SATA3, 1 Ultra M.2
RAM / System Memory: 16GB (8GBx2) DDR4/2800MHz Dual Channel Memory (ADATA XPG Z1)
Video Card: GeForce® GTX 970 4GB GDDR5 (Maxwell)[VR Ready] (Single Card)
Power Supply: 600 Watts - Standard 80 Plus Certified Power Supply - SLI/CrossFireX Ready
Hard Drive: 1TB Western Digital Caviar Blue SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 7200 RPM HDD (240GB Intel 540s Series SSD + Single Drive)

$1,178.. has 3 year warranty

Yea if it was for me I would build with Ripjaws and Samsung SSD, but im being cheap

 

[Bearmann]

Depending upon the PSU which is not specified, the build looks fine to me.

You know that viruses and malware will not damage the hardware, but you may have to reload the OS and other software if it becomes severely infected.

 

[jbc029]

Replace the 970 with a 480, keep the same performance and use the $100 you save to actually get those other items.

 

[Bearmann]

Replace the 970 with a 480, keep the same performance and use the $100 you save to actually get those other items.

I'm betting the GTX 970 has a significant price drop the day the RX 480 becomes available (if not before.)

 

[Guest]

Why not wait for the Radeon RX 480 and build it yourself? Get it for under $1,000.


PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($297.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper D92 54.8 CFM Rifle Bearing CPU Cooler ($36.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock H170A-X1 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($76.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Sandisk Z400s 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($64.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($47.49 @ OutletPC)
Case: Corsair 100R ATX Mid Tower Case ($39.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 620W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($63.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($83.89 @ OutletPC)
Case Fan: Corsair SP140 49.5 CFM 140mm Fan ($10.99 @ Amazon)
Case Fan: Corsair SP140 49.5 CFM 140mm Fan ($10.99 @ Amazon)
Other: 4GB Radeon​ RX 480 (Q​3 2016) ($199.99)
Total: $994.16
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-06-02 17:56 EDT-0400

 

[jbc029]

Replace the 970 with a 480, keep the same performance and use the $100 you save to actually get those other items.

I'm betting the GTX 970 has a significant price drop the day the RX 480 becomes available (if not before.)

I'd take that bet. NV isn't going to gut their entire 960 sales block to lose their entire margin on the 970. They'll rely on word of mouth from the last couple years carrying buyers along for the next couple of months, because they'll happily take the money of people who don't research purchases first. It's only another quarter (hopefully) until the 1060 arrives, but until that actually happens, it isn't helping to push an outdated card.

No one even bothers suggesting 980ti/Fury/FuryX/980/390X anymore. Why? Because the 1070 exists. Same situation exists for the 950/960/970/380/380X/390 now. They are outdated cards with less than a month left in their product life cycle.

 

[Bearmann]

Replace the 970 with a 480, keep the same performance and use the $100 you save to actually get those other items.

I'm betting the GTX 970 has a significant price drop the day the RX 480 becomes available (if not before.)

I'd take that bet. NV isn't going to gut their entire 960 sales block to lose their entire margin on the 970. They'll rely on word of mouth from the last couple years carrying buyers along for the next couple of months, because they'll happily take the money of people who don't research purchases first. It's only another quarter (hopefully) until the 1060 arrives, but until that actually happens, it isn't helping to push an outdated card.

No one even bothers suggesting 980ti/Fury/FuryX/980/390X anymore. Why? Because the 1070 exists. Same situation exists for the 950/960/970/380/380X/390 now. They are outdated cards with less than a month left in their product life cycle.

You may be right and I haven't seen prior cycles to see what happens. The GTX 970 was already as low as $225 a few weeks ago, but then it popped back up. I was thinking they would knock the price down just before the RX 480 goes on sale to pop the air out of the AMD balloon and steal some sales, especially from those who don't know about the FX 480.