First ever PC build for Photoshop/Lightroom. Advice needed!

[JeolEfmo]

Hey guys,

I'm looking to build my first PC. Primarily will be used for photo editing (Photoshop/Lightroom), as well as light gaming as secondary.

Can anyone tell me where I should upgrade/downgrade any parts if needed?

 

PARTS LIST

CPU: AMD 3700x $510.00

Motherboard: Asus TUF Gaming X570-Plus $341.00*

GPU: ASRock Radeon RX 5700 8G Graphics Card** $500.00

Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory $260.00

Storage: ADATA SX8200 Pro 1TB M.2 NVME $225.00

Case: Meshify C $149.00

Power Supply: Corsair 750W 80 + Gold Modular Power Supply (RM750)*** $156.00

TOTAL: $2,170.00 ($AUD)

Prices are taken from Static Ice today, so total may fluctuate +/- $100

 

*Looking at this motherboard as it has 2 NVME slots, WiFi and PCIE 4.0. Are there any cheaper, quality options out there?

**I know hardly anything about GPUs. Is it suitable? I was also looking at the 1660ti.

***Originally looked at the SeaSonic 650W Focus Gold Semi Modular Power Supply (SSR-650FM), but PCPartPicker said it doesn't have a 4-pin ATX power connector.

 

Thanks!

[Streetguru]

7 minutes ago, JeolEfmo said:

 

Horrifically Overkill for photo editing.

What kind of monitor do you have?

You'd be fine with just an R5 2600 + RX 570/580 for 1080p gaming

[JeolEfmo]

3 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Horrifically Overkill for photo editing.

What kind of monitor do you have?

You'd be fine with just an R5 2600 + RX 570/580 for 1080p gaming

I'm not sure on monitor as yet. Thinking about a 24-27" 144mhz variant.

[Streetguru]

4 minutes ago, JeolEfmo said:

I'm not sure on monitor as yet. Thinking about a 24-27" 144mhz variant.

What country? Probably invest the most into your monitor with a 1440p IPS ultra wide at 100hz. That maybe has 90-99% adobe RGB.

 

Only need 16GBs of RAM in any event.

[JeolEfmo]

1 minute ago, Streetguru said:

What country? Probably invest the most into your monitor with a 1440p IPS ultra wide at 100hz. That maybe has 90-99% adobe RGB.

 

Only need 16GBs of RAM in any event.

I'm in Australia. All the RGB monitors are extremely expensive. Haven't been able to find a competitively priced RGB screen. Do you know of any?

[Akira Shimazu]

1 minute ago, JeolEfmo said:

I'm in Australia. All the RGB monitors are extremely expensive. Haven't been able to find a competitively priced RGB screen. Do you know of any?

i meant like rx570, 3700 and 16gigs is more than enough tho

[Streetguru]

6 minutes ago, JeolEfmo said:

I'm in Australia. All the RGB monitors are extremely expensive. Haven't been able to find a competitively priced RGB screen. Do you know of any?

This one is 95% of the P3 color space, Can just go on the part picker and search by IPS and higher refresh rates.

https://au.pcpartpicker.com/product/LFRzK8/acer-xv272u-pbmiiprzx-270-2560x1440-144-hz-monitor-xv272u-pbmiiprzx

https://www.displayninja.com/acer-xv272u-review/

[JeolEfmo]

Also, is the motherboard (X570) overkill?

I thought it would be good seeing that it has PCIE 4.0, which will allow me to get a quicker NVME driver when they start coming out.

[Guest]

What is your workflow like? If you're editing a lot and bouncing between LR and PS, it is easy to eat up that 16GB. I'm regularly at 24+ between the two. If you don't find yourself doing that, 16GB is fine.

[Streetguru]

Just now, JeolEfmo said:

Also, is the motherboard (X570) overkill?

I thought it would be good seeing that it has PCIE 4.0, which will allow me to get a quicker NVME driver when they start coming out.

Might as well get a decent board, if you do more stuff in the future you could always upgrade to the 16 core CPU on it.

[JeolEfmo]

Thanks guys!

Cleared a lot up for me, that's for sure!

[JeolEfmo]

Also, as for memory, would 3000MHz be enough, or would I find 3200/3600 more beneficial?

[Akira Shimazu]

19 hours ago, JeolEfmo said:

Also, as for memory, would 3000MHz be enough, or would I find 3200/3600 more beneficial?

not noticeable difference. 

[Akira Shimazu]

21 hours ago, Den-Fi said:

What is your workflow like? If you're editing a lot and bouncing between LR and PS, it is easy to eat up that 16GB. I'm regularly at 24+ between the two. If you don't find yourself doing that, 16GB is fine.

adobe require at least 12GB free RAM space tho. anything below that struggle like my laptop lul. 16 is middle i would said. unless it is heavy shot workload. GPU would definitely help

[Guest]

Just now, Wolfycapt said:

adobe require at least 12GB free RAM space tho. anything below that struggle like my laptop lul. 16 is middle i would said. unless it is heavy shot workload. GPU would definitely help

I was pointing out that 16GB may not be enough to kind of counter a lot of the "this is overkill" going on here. Not sure what your reply means.