Building my own desktop

[mannydelfini]

Hello everyone,

First of all, i apologize if i make any mistake or i don't explain myself clearly since English isn't my first language. Being this said i need some of your help, these days i am planing to build my own desktop. I started out from Ibuypower and i ended up deciding to buy everything separately since it is cheaper. I will be in USA for a week in about 2 months so i have enough time to order everything in advance so, so far i have made my own selection but i'm not whether sure what i have selected is the right thing for me or not. I'm looking to build a desktop for video editing less than for games "i might use it for games sometimes", i have some small knowledge on the basic components of a desktop but i'm a bit out of date. I'm planing to spend up to 1500$ "less if possible" so i would very glad if anyone of you can advice me on this selection that i will state below.

Case: NZXT Noctis 450 Mid Tower Case "i love this case"
Audio card: ASUS XONAR DGX 5.1 Channels 24-bit 96KHz PCI Express x1 Interface
Power supply: CORSAIR CX series CX600 600W
Hard disk drive: WD Blue 3TB- 5400 RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD30EZRZ
Video card: ASUS GeForce GTX 1070-8gb
Motherboard: ASUS Z170 PRO GAMING LGA 1151 Intel Z170 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 ATX
Processor: Intel Core i7-6700K 8M Skylake Quad-Core 4.0 GHz
Liquid cooler: Corsair - CW-9060010-WW - H55 Quiet CPU Cooler - 1 x 120 mm - 1700 rpm
Memory ram: G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4

- Is there anything I should change?
- am I missing something?
- what would be better? 4 x 8gb or 2 x 16gb for ram?

Thanks!

 

[burgessanthony]

Poor power supply. Look for evga, seasonic
You could get a gtx 1060 if gaming isn't main usage.
Terrible slow hard drive. Get at least a 7200rpm and a ssd boot/scratch drive
You really need an audio card?
2x16gb puts less load on the imc afaik

 

[mannydelfini]

Poor power supply. Look for evga, seasonic
You could get a gtx 1060 if gaming isn't main usage.
Terrible slow hard drive. Get at least a 7200rpm and a ssd boot/scratch drive
You really need an audio card?
2x16gb puts less load on the imc afaik

Thank you!
for power supply an EVGA 600w would it be enough?
Does this Hard drive is good? > Seagate Barracuda STBD3000100 3TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5"

 

[burgessanthony]

Which evga model? A couple aren't great. Yes better hdd, I have that model. Plenty fast

 

[mannydelfini]

Which evga model? A couple aren't great. Yes better hdd, I have that model. Plenty fast

This one here > EVGA 600w B1 100-B1-0600-KR 80+ BRONZE

 

[burgessanthony]

It's tier 3. Not the best, but will work and better than the cx

 

[mannydelfini]

It's tier 3. Not the best, but will work and better than the cx

what's the model you would recommend the best? i got not problem paying a bit more if the difference will be notable

 

[burgessanthony]

Supernova b2, corsair Rm, seasonic s12 are all tier 2 units.

 

[mannydelfini]

Supernova b2, corsair Rm, seasonic s12 are all tier 2 units.

You are great thank you!, I have chosen Supernova b2 850w

 

[burgessanthony]

Nice! you only really need 600 tops with overhead, but totally up to you

 

[Packard93]

Each quarter, Backblaze updates our hard drive statistics with the latest data. As of the end of Q2 2015, there were 47,561 drives spinning in our datacenter. Subtracting out boot drives, drive models with less than 45 drives and drives in testing systems, we are publishing data on 46,038 hard drives spread across 21 different models, from 1.5TB to 8.0TB in size.

All the hard drives in this review are used in the production systems in our datacenter. The environment is climate controlled and all drives are individually monitored. Each day we pull the available SMART stats reported by each and every drive. These stats are available for download from our Hard Drive Data web page.

There are two SMART stats of particular interest for most folks: hours in operation and drive temperature. The SMART 9 attribute allows us to compute the age of the drive, and the SMART 194 attribute allows us to determine that all drives are within their acceptable temperature range. Downloading the data will enable you to examine the SMART stats for every drive we used in this review.

Hard Drive Failure Rates
We’ll start by comparing the hard drive reliability stats for the January-June 2015 period with the stats from 2014:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/blog-graph-all-quarters.png

 

[Packard93]

recommend go with hitachi desktars or ultrastars Highest reliable drive on market when compared to 43000 drive test Hitachi least likely to die.

Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 I personnally own 5 hitachi for 7 yrs never had failed drive since I switched to hitachi before all my builds with western digital and seagate always bit the dust over a coarse of a 5 yr history

 

[azaran]

While I agree with the Hitachi recommendations, keep in mind that Backblaze has had a ton of scrutiny for how they use their hard drives. They run them in ways that no normal human is going to in their system.

 

[Packard93]

My first hitachi I own is 3tb 3gb 7k deskstar I bought In 2008 at fry's and i still have it in my pc. I use defragment weeklly on my pc for all my drives . all drives up to 5 that I own since 2008 all hitachi till now built with my asrock today run perfectly no problem . before 2008 I used western digital and seagate during a 5 yrs use I had to toss seagate and western digitals .I dont recommend the seagate and western digital for a pc that has secure data.

 

[DSzymborski]

Also note that Backblaze ha released an update:

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/228497-backblaze-releases-billion-hour-hard-drive-reliability-report

The Seagate failure rates dropped a ton once those 3 TB ones were removed from the ecosystem. And of course, it's useful to remember what the above poster said - Backblaze is working those consumer hard drives like mules.

 

[Packard93]

Also note that Backblaze ha released an update:

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/228497-backblaze-releases-billion-hour-hard-drive-reliability-report

This chart on this page clearly shows seagates with highest failure percentage while hitachi with the lowest failure rating given it the lead in reliabity

 

[Packard93]

Buy hitachi drive ultrastars they will be the best drive for your build .
They have 6gb speed