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its 15:48 over here.

@j.son19 its 10:47 am over here
 

Can confirm. 
Happened to me..

Police in NY have issued a warrant for Spotty's arrest, charged with double murder because this joke killed tofu and me (from laughter)

Yes, very worth it, your games will be so much smoother and your system stable as a rock in comparison

Technically there is 8gb worth of physical memory chips there, and it sees that, but it only uses 4

You will have a drastically better experience with just 1 2070s
If it were me, I wouldnt even choose 2 2070 supers over 1.

Yeah, SLI can introduce stutters and whatnot that just create a generally worse experience, even if your FPS number is higher in your benchmark

That's the point. Only nVLink for Quadro graphic cards support memory sharing (and only certain applications support it), SLI doesn't. So each graphics card has to have a copy of the data in its own memory and you have effectively only 4 GB of memory.
A single 2070 Super should be at least 99% of the time faster than two 980 in SLI.

Oml please dont do an SLI setup, almost no games use it now, and it can be driver hell and overall just less reliable and stable. Get the 2070 super, youll be way happier, trust me.
Youll want the extra Vram that the 2070s provides for 4k, it will be a way better experience, vram doesnt scale over SLI, even if whatever youre doing actually uses both GPUs and scales well, the 2070s will be so much better for 4k for its superior memory alone.
 
Edit: I misread, you already have an SLI setup and youre looking to upgrade your system, the answer is yes, the 2070 super will be way better for 4k

Im quite sure that two GTX 980s dont give you twice the memory.

So you have 4GB of VRAM, and 2 GTX 980s worth of graphics processing power, is the gist.

SLI doesnt actually use the memory from both cards if Im correct, it basically just holds copies of the memory on both cards, and both cards work on the same data.
 

a ups is normally the best for this.
 
but normally pulling power from the pc is fine for it, software gets picky though.

Got a new mic + a new external soundcard/audio interface:

 

 
Got some new fenders for the street warrior princess:

Someone's fishing for a perma ban!!
 
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Hello,
 
@Mateyyy was faster but for somewhere around the same budget you have set :
 
 
PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor £289.29 @ Amazon UK Motherboard MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard £109.97 @ Box Limited Memory OLOy 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory £124.28 @ Newegg UK Storage ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive £69.98 @ Amazon UK Video Card Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB OC Video Card £204.99 @ AWD-IT Case Fractal Design Focus G ATX Mid Tower Case £51.24 @ CCL Computers Power Supply Corsair TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply £69.98 @ Amazon UK Optical Drive LG GH24NSB0 DVD/CD Writer £14.89 @ Amazon UK Monitor BenQ BL2420PT 23.8" 2560x1440 60 Hz Monitor £199.97 @ Amazon UK Keyboard Dell KB212-B Wired Ergonomic Keyboard £29.83 @ SmartTeck.co.uk   Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts     Total £1164.42   Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-08-16 17:48 BST+0100  

Hello,
 
@Mateyyy was faster but for somewhere around the same budget you have set :
 
 
PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor £289.29 @ Amazon UK Motherboard MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard £109.97 @ Box Limited Memory OLOy 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory £124.28 @ Newegg UK Storage ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive £69.98 @ Amazon UK Video Card Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB OC Video Card £204.99 @ AWD-IT Case Fractal Design Focus G ATX Mid Tower Case £51.24 @ CCL Computers Power Supply Corsair TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply £69.98 @ Amazon UK Optical Drive LG GH24NSB0 DVD/CD Writer £14.89 @ Amazon UK Monitor BenQ BL2420PT 23.8" 2560x1440 60 Hz Monitor £199.97 @ Amazon UK Keyboard Dell KB212-B Wired Ergonomic Keyboard £29.83 @ SmartTeck.co.uk   Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts     Total £1164.42   Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-08-16 17:48 BST+0100  

Hello,
 
@Mateyyy was faster but for somewhere around the same budget you have set :
 
 
PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor £289.29 @ Amazon UK Motherboard MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard £109.97 @ Box Limited Memory OLOy 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory £124.28 @ Newegg UK Storage ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive £69.98 @ Amazon UK Video Card Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB OC Video Card £204.99 @ AWD-IT Case Fractal Design Focus G ATX Mid Tower Case £51.24 @ CCL Computers Power Supply Corsair TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply £69.98 @ Amazon UK Optical Drive LG GH24NSB0 DVD/CD Writer £14.89 @ Amazon UK Monitor BenQ BL2420PT 23.8" 2560x1440 60 Hz Monitor £199.97 @ Amazon UK Keyboard Dell KB212-B Wired Ergonomic Keyboard £29.83 @ SmartTeck.co.uk   Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts     Total £1164.42   Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-08-16 17:48 BST+0100  

You'll want to tell your mate that going with a TN panel for image editing is.. stupid, to say the least. He should definitely go for an IPS panel.
PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor £165.00 @ Amazon UK Motherboard MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard £109.97 @ Box Limited Memory Team T-FORCE VULCAN Z 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory £106.43 @ Overclockers.co.uk Storage ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive £69.99 @ CCL Computers Video Card Palit GeForce GTX 1650 4 GB Dual Video Card £74.54 @ Amazon UK Case Fractal Design Focus G Mini MicroATX Mini Tower Case £46.99 @ Amazon UK Power Supply be quiet! Pure Power 11 400 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply £56.99 @ Amazon UK Monitor BenQ BL2420PT 23.8" 2560x1440 60 Hz Monitor £199.97 @ Amazon UK   Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts     Total £829.88   Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-08-16 17:38 BST+0100   Or i5-10400 and a Z490-A Pro or Prime Z490-P. Adobe tends to prefer Intel but there are no recent tests directly comparing Comet Lake i5s and the 3600, so I'm not going to say that that combination would be downright better.
 
Or, if he's set on going for a 4K monitor:
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/qBGxFT/lg-27uk650-w-270-3840x2160-60hz-monitor-27uk650-w
https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/kxWBD3/dell-u2720q-270-3840x2160-60-hz-monitor-u2720q

Do you mean to have a good pairing of CPU and GPU or just the lowest-end CPU? 

There's always a Bottleneck. 
Some workloads are GPU Bottlenecked and some are cpu Bottlenecked. 
But in general, 10600k/3600/8700k imo. 

Probably something like a 3300x.