Would appreciate sugestions for my first build (for good this time)

Vectoras · November 16, 2021

A while ago I have made this post:

Right now my brother has come back to the ideea and is ready to spend some money on a PC. It has the same purpose professional photo editing + gaming (Fifa 2021, Call of Duty, Bannerlord, others)

Budget (including currency): 1800 - 2000 euro excluding the videocard (which we already have)

Country: Belgium

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Lightroom, Photoshop, games some of which mentioned above

Other details: WE ALREADY HAVE THE VIDEO CARD, an Nvidia 3060 Ti

Bellow are two lists of parts from Amazon, one Intel and one AMD, your critical thoughts will be appreciated:

https://www.amazon.fr/hz/wishlist/ls/33XJGB9JAMMKD/ref=hz_ls_biz_ex

https://www.amazon.fr/hz/wishlist/ls/1L04FOVTPSDQN/ref=hz_ls_biz_ex

He really likes that case and is somewhat interested in RGB. Might be open on sugestions for other cases only if they are glass / transparent.

threec9 · November 16, 2021

Really don't get an i9-11900KF... Go with the AMD parts list but get a 5800X no point going higher for gaming and photo editing. I would also recommend not doing water cooling for your first build. You could get a Noctua NH-U9S chromax black air cooler that performs amazing and looks great instead.

slowy · November 17, 2021

I'd probably go with an i7/i9 12th gen , the i7 12700k beats the 5900x on average, in adobe suite always. The Intel 11th gen is kinda obsolete.

I put something together to work with (used the france-partspicker-page)

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: Intel Core i7-12700KF 3.6 GHz 12-Core Processor (€429.99 @ Amazon France)
CPU Cooler: ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II 240 A-RGB 48.8 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (€93.69 @ Amazon France)
Motherboard: Asus TUF GAMING Z690-PLUS D4 ATX LGA1700 Motherboard (€316.32 @ Amazon France)
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory (€204.88 @ Alternate)
Storage: Western Digital Black SN850 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive (€150.99 @ Amazon France)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 4 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (€89.99 @ Amazon France)
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB Founders Edition Video Card (Purchased For €0.00)
Case: Phanteks Eclipse P500A D-RGB ATX Mid Tower Case (€164.94 @ TopAchat)
Power Supply: Corsair RMx (2018) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (€125.34 @ Cdiscount)
Case Fan: Phanteks FSK 84.5 CFM 140 mm Fan (€21.72 @ Amazon France)
Total: €1597.86
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-11-17 21:49 CET+0100

man 2000€ without GPU is ... a lot to play with...

Found a cheaper cooler with about the same performance.

With the i7 12th gen, a new board with the Z690 chipset. You might want to consider to go with a DDR5-board with that budget...

Found some faster and cheaper RGB memory sticks.

Picked Phanteks P500A's airflow case. If you pick a case, I'd suggest to look for airflow cases. I don't know the one you picked, but it's usually a bad sign if the front has a solid glass panel in front of the intakes...

750W PSU is sufficient, higher Watt if you want to upgrade parts later.

Dr0idGh0sT · November 18, 2021

12 hours ago, slowy said:

I'd probably go with an i7/i9 12th gen , the i7 12700k beats the 5900x on average, in adobe suite always. The Intel 11th gen is kinda obsolete.

I put something together to work with (used the france-partspicker-page)

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: Intel Core i7-12700KF 3.6 GHz 12-Core Processor (€429.99 @ Amazon France)
CPU Cooler: ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II 240 A-RGB 48.8 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (€93.69 @ Amazon France)
Motherboard: Asus TUF GAMING Z690-PLUS D4 ATX LGA1700 Motherboard (€316.32 @ Amazon France)
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory (€204.88 @ Alternate)
Storage: Western Digital Black SN850 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive (€150.99 @ Amazon France)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 4 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (€89.99 @ Amazon France)
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB Founders Edition Video Card (Purchased For €0.00)
Case: Phanteks Eclipse P500A D-RGB ATX Mid Tower Case (€164.94 @ TopAchat)
Power Supply: Corsair RMx (2018) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (€125.34 @ Cdiscount)
Case Fan: Phanteks FSK 84.5 CFM 140 mm Fan (€21.72 @ Amazon France)
Total: €1597.86
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-11-17 21:49 CET+0100

man 2000€ without GPU is ... a lot to play with...

Found a cheaper cooler with about the same performance.

With the i7 12th gen, a new board with the Z690 chipset. You might want to consider to go with a DDR5-board with that budget...

Found some faster and cheaper RGB memory sticks.

Picked Phanteks P500A's airflow case. If you pick a case, I'd suggest to look for airflow cases. I don't know the one you picked, but it's usually a bad sign if the front has a solid glass panel in front of the intakes...

750W PSU is sufficient, higher Watt if you want to upgrade parts later.