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Lewiscpullan
By Lewiscpullan
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Budget (including currency): £1000

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Video Editing

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

 

Hey, so I'm putting together a PC for a friend for video editing. Its a Ryzen based build but I need to decide whether I use a Ryzen 7 3700x w/ GTX 1660 Super or a Ryzen 7 2700x w/ RTX 2060 or even save a bit of money and go for the 2700x and 1660?

 

Here's the Partpicker list, let me know if you think I should change anything else as well? 

 

Many thanks, 

Lewis :)

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor £274.00 @ Amazon UK
Motherboard MSI B450-A PRO MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard £84.98 @ Amazon UK
Memory Team T-FORCE VULCAN Z 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory £101.39 @ Amazon UK
Storage Samsung 970 Evo 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive £72.99 @ CCL Computers
Storage Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive £51.78 @ Amazon UK
Video Card MSI GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB VENTUS XS OC Video Card £207.83 @ More Computers
Case NZXT H510 ATX Mid Tower Case £59.99 @ Amazon UK
Power Supply SeaSonic CORE GM 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply £78.89 @ Box Limited
Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit £95.58 @ Aria PC
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total £1027.43
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-09-23 17:48 BST+0100  

 

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Which software will you use?

Some do benefit from faster cores (on the Zen 2 chip)

 

That said... Can you wait a month? New ryzen CPUs are to be released/announced, same with new GPUs.

Prices are very likely to drop down. Even more so on the used market from people upgrading their Zen2 rig to Zen3. You could snag a 3700x for cheap then.

 

That said, the 3700x+2060 would likely be best.

(oh and you can save on the OS, just get a cheap key on Ebay or something, it's literally like 5$. If you have a Windows 7 key or Windows 8 key, you can still use those to activate Windows 10, too)

CPU: AMD Ryzen 3700x / GPU: Asus Radeon RX 6750XT OC 12GB / RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x8GB DDR4-3200
MOBO: MSI B450m Gaming Plus / NVME: Corsair MP510 240GB / Case: TT Core v21 / PSU: Seasonic 750W / OS: Win 10 Pro

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1 minute ago, TetraSky said:

Which software will you use?

Some do benefit from faster cores (on the Zen 2 chip)

 

That said... Can you wait a month? New ryzen CPUs are to be released/announced, same with new GPUs.

Prices are very likely to drop down. Even more so on the used market from people upgrading their Zen2 rig to Zen3. You could snag a 3700x for cheap then.

The PC isn't for me so I will definitely mention that to him. I'm guessing he's using premiere pro but will double check

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looks ok, keep in mind that you can use windows 10 without a license which will just put a little watermark in the corner of your screen. for the ssd, a western digital sn750 would be a cheaper and similarly effective choice. chances are that youll want a bit more gpu power, an evga 2060 ko would be the best bang for the buck due to its compute performance being in league of 2070s.

topics i need help on:

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my "oops i bought intel right before zen 3 releases" build

CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 (placeholder)

GPU: Gigabyte 980ti Xtreme (also placeholder), deshroud w/ generic 1200rpm 120mm fans x2, stock bios 130% power, no voltage offset: +70 core +400 mem 

Memory: 2x16gb GSkill Trident Z RGB 3600C16, 14-15-30-288@1.45v

Motherboard: Asus ROG Strix X570-E Gaming

Cooler: Noctua NH-D15S w/ white chromax bling
OS Drive: Samsung PM981 1tb (OEM 970 Evo)

Storage Drive: XPG SX8200 Pro 2tb

Backup Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 4TB

PSU: Seasonic Prime Ultra Titanium 750W w/ black/white Cablemod extensions
Case: Fractal Design Meshify C Dark (to be replaced with a good case shortly)

basically everything was bought used off of reddit or here, only new component was the case. absolutely nutty deals for some of these parts, ill have to tally it all up once it's "done" :D 

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why not both?

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor £273.95 @ Amazon UK
Motherboard MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard £109.98 @ Box Limited
Memory Team T-FORCE DARK Z 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory £97.99 @ Box Limited
Storage ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive £66.99 @ AWD-IT
Storage Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive £51.25 @ Amazon UK
Video Card EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB KO GAMING Video Card £298.40 @ Alza
Case Fractal Design Focus G ATX Mid Tower Case £46.99 @ Amazon UK
Power Supply Corsair TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply £69.98 @ Amazon UK
Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit £10.00
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total £1025.53
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-09-23 18:21 BST+0100  

 

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Is waiting a month or so for zen 3/ ryzen 4000/ryzen 5000 a option?

I could use some help with this!

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Need help updating a phone from w8.1 to w10 - Windows - Linus Tech Tips

please, pm me if you would like to contribute to my gpu bios database (includes overclocking bios, stock bios, and upgrades to gpus via modding)

Bios database

My beautiful, but not that powerful, main PC:

prior build:

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57 minutes ago, boggy77 said:

why not both?

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor £273.95 @ Amazon UK
Motherboard MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard £109.98 @ Box Limited
Memory Team T-FORCE DARK Z 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory £97.99 @ Box Limited
Storage ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive £66.99 @ AWD-IT
Storage Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive £51.25 @ Amazon UK
Video Card EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB KO GAMING Video Card £298.40 @ Alza
Case Fractal Design Focus G ATX Mid Tower Case £46.99 @ Amazon UK
Power Supply Corsair TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply £69.98 @ Amazon UK
Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit £10.00
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total £1025.53
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-09-23 18:21 BST+0100  

 

Oh yeah that makes sense! Thank you :)

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59 minutes ago, boggy77 said:

why not both?

PCPartPicker Part List
Type Item Price
CPU AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor £273.95 @ Amazon UK
Motherboard MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard £109.98 @ Box Limited
Memory Team T-FORCE DARK Z 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory £97.99 @ Box Limited
Storage ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 512 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive £66.99 @ AWD-IT
Storage Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive £51.25 @ Amazon UK
Video Card EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB KO GAMING Video Card £298.40 @ Alza
Case Fractal Design Focus G ATX Mid Tower Case £46.99 @ Amazon UK
Power Supply Corsair TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply £69.98 @ Amazon UK
Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit £10.00
  Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts  
  Total £1025.53
  Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-09-23 18:21 BST+0100  

 

Where do you get Windows for £10 though?

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1 minute ago, Lewiscpullan said:

Fair enough lol, never known whether to trust it or not

they are real keys, the methods they are obtained by are maybe questionable, but the keys work and that's all you need to worry about.

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