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Budget (including currency): 1200ish GBP, can be higher though

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Image editing, video editing, maybe light games, admin things for work

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PCPartPicker Part List: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/gqxLBZ

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor  (£260.73 @ Amazon UK) 
CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X53 73.11 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  (£119.99 @ Box Limited) 
Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX B450-E GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard  (£145.47 @ Scan.co.uk) 
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory  (£188.36 @ CCL Computers) 
Storage: Western Digital Blue 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£59.97 @ Amazon UK) 
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£52.88 @ CCL Computers) 
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon RX 580 4 GB NITRO+ Video Card  (£213.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: be quiet! Pure Base 500 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£94.03 @ Novatech) 
Power Supply: be quiet! Straight Power 11 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply  (£99.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £1235.40
 

Is this a good list? Should i choose the 9700k over the 3700x?

Also, does the motherboard need a bios update for 3000 support? The asus website says yes but some other places say no.

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depending on your video editing program of choice you may be able to utilize quicksync on intel cpus

gaming system: Intel core I9 12900ks / biostar Z690A valkyrie / 4x8gb corsair Vengeance @3333Mhz ram / RX 7900XTX pulse gpu / Thermalright peerless assassin 140 /Coolermaster Qube 500 case / Be Quiet Dark Power Pro 12 1500w power supply

 

laptop: Dell xps 9510, 3.5k OLED, i7 11800h, rtx 3050 ti, 2x16gb DDR4 @ 3200Mhz, 1TB main drive, 2TB add in ssd

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