O Martin

As a total newb at building a PC I am in a great position to embarrass myself. Still, I want to give it a go to save some money (and potentially prove to myself I can do something with my own two hands). The PC would be used for MS Office work during the day by my gf and for photo editing and perhaps later also video editing by night (I might get into that later). There is no strict budget, but I am hoping for around 1000 EUR (I live in Germany). The reason for the upgrade is that I would like something that works fast, will let me do photo editing reasonably well as I am getting into photography and can be upgraded in the future. The rig would be below a desk (not enough place on the actual desk), so the case could be a bit bigger if that might help with the cooling. Is this any good? I have decided on the CPU; i7 8700 (do not think I will ever get into overclocking). I have heard that noctua coolers are good. Any thoughts on this? I would like to avoid having RGB lighting altogether. Any thoughts on good motherboards, which would let me make upgrades to the PC down the line. WIFI is a must, thought I guess there might be workarounds to that. I also plan on getting 2 x 8 GB of DDR RAM (would this be OK?) I do not think that I would need something high end as far as the GPU goes as I can upgrade that later if needs be (I do my gaming on my xbox one and am finding hard to find the time for it anyway). The budget for that would be around 300 EUR. Any recommendations? I have read somewhere that AMD might be better for non-gaming stuff. True? Samsung 970 evo m.2 500GB and probably also a Samsung Evo 860 SSD (1TB). No idea on the power supply, I have not read up on that yet. I plan to use a HD monitor at first (to see if I put everything together correctly). Later I aim to buy a 4K monitor and perhaps use both (still undecided). Thanks in advance for your help.