My build

[Black Jeff]

1. Budget & Location
My budget is around 1800-1900$ (AUD) and i am in australia.

2. Aim
will be using mainly for gaming, Photoshop, recording and video editing. probably will end up having to do school work on it as well.

3. Monitors
looking at the Asus VG248QE and not any 1440p monitors because of the price if you want to get a decent one.

4. Peripherals
OS is sorted along with mouse and keyboard.

5. Why are you upgrading?
my computer has a gt 610 and can't play games without turning every setting down.

 

http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/kvwGdC

[MattWakey]

1. Budget & Location

My budget is around 1800-1900$ (AUD) and i am in australia.

2. Aim

will be using mainly for gaming, Photoshop, recording and video editing. probably will end up having to do school work on it as well.

3. Monitors

looking at the Asus VG248QE and not any 1440p monitors because of the price if you want to get a decent one.

4. Peripherals

OS is sorted along with mouse and keyboard.

5. Why are you upgrading?

my computer has a gt 610 and can't play games without turning every setting down.

 

http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/kvwGdC

Do you want to overclock and water or air cool?

[Black Jeff]

Do you want to overclock and water or air cool?

overclocking gpu and cpu and for cpu cooler i'm not sure if the h100i is overkill or not. if i wasn't getting that i would probably get a noctua cpu cooler.

[Guest]

Looks pretty good to me. But you may want to avoid a monitor with a TN panel if you plan to do lots of photo and video stuff. Their color reproduction is so bad...

[-MOBIUS-]

Just replace your CPU with an i5-4690k, unless you think you'll need the hyper-threading on the i7. Your build is pretty much set

[Black Jeff]

Looks pretty good to me. But you may want to avoid a monitor with a TN panel if you plan to do lots of photo and video stuff. Their color reproduction is so bad...

is it a big change which is worth the upgrade?

[Black Jeff]

Just replace your CPU with an i5-4690k, unless you think you'll need the hyper-threading on the i7. Your build is pretty much set

yeah still deciding between the two. will be doing video stuff but not sure if so much it will be worth the extra 100 bucks

[-MOBIUS-]

yeah still deciding between the two. will be doing video stuff but not sure if so much it will be worth the extra 100 bucks

 

Get the i7 if you're going to do frequent multitasking, like playing games, editing videos, recording videos, photoshop at the same time. But I would still recommend the i5, since that kind of multitasking will be quite difficult to achieve. 

[Guest]

is it a big change which is worth the upgrade?

It depends. If you are doing photo or video stuff professionally, than yes, very much so. If you are just starting to learn, than your probably fine. I do video work semi professionally (less than 50% of my income) and I went with a Asus PB278Q because it's color reproduction is really good. Some people pay thousands and thousands of dollars for a monitor with near perfect color (like this one! https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/smartview4k). It all depends on how serious you are with photo and video work.

[MattWakey]

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[Black Jeff]

It depends. If you are doing photo or video stuff professionally, than yes, very much so. If you are just starting to learn, than your probably fine. I do video work semi professionally (less than 50% of my income) and I went with a Asus PB278Q because it's color reproduction is really good. Some people pay thousands and thousands of dollars for a monitor with near perfect color (like this one! https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/smartview4k). It all depends on how serious you are with photo and video work.

im still learning so i guess for now ill stick to what i have. if i start to become semi professional i will definitely upgrade.  

[Guest]

yeah still deciding between the two. will be doing video stuff but not sure if so much it will be worth the extra 100 bucks

Good video editing software will benefit from the i7. I have the 4930k and After Effects uses all 12 of my threads (and all 32 GB of RAM). When it comes to video work, the more cores and the more RAM, the better. Always. (well, almost always at least )

[VonProdigy]

Looks pretty good to me, but like @KorineFreak said you might want to avoid TN panels if you're going to do a lot of video editing etc.

[Guest]

im still learning so i guess for now ill stick to what i have. if i start to become semi professional i will definitely upgrade.  

Another option would be to get one of those cheap Korean monitors. Those will have much better color reproduction than the TN panels and most can be overclocked to 120 Hz. Maybe that would be the way to go?

[watts300]

What is this "optical drive" thingie?