pc build for programming, data analysis, 3D animation and photo&video editing - feedback needed

rmsimon

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I am about to buy a new computer that I would like to build myself.

My computer will be used for programming, data analysis, 3D animation and photo&video editing. I am going to have both a linux and windows operating system. I would appreciate if you could give me feedback on whether my choice of components are well chosen for this kind of work.

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K Skylake

CPU cooler: Noctua NH-D14

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming G1

Graphics card: ASUS GeForce GTX 970 4GB TURBO (TURBO-GTX970-4G)

Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 / 2133Mhz / CL13 (CMK32GX4M2A2133C13)

Hard drive: Two "Samsung SSD 850 Evo 250 GB" and one "Seagate Barracuda 3 TB HDD SATA Internal Bare Drive"

Power supply: EVGA PowerSupply (PSU) SuperNOVA P2 850W

Case: Corsair Carbide Clear 600C

Please give your opinions.

Sincerly Simon
 
No gaming means you should replace the GTX970 with a K5000 if you can find a used one for cheap. Hell, a used Titan (or Titan Black) would also do well. If you use DP GPGPU compute, the old Titan will be several times faster than the 970 (and even the new 1080!)

If you are going number crunching heavy, a Haswell-E i7 6 core chip might be better too.