2D animation / video editing rig

[dedikater]

im building a pc for a friend for 2d animation and video editing and slight gaming  and since he wont be using cuda accelerated SW i made this partlist for a cheap pc with an included monitor and i wanted to get your opinion on it  http://pcpartpicker.com/user/dedikater612/saved/Gt6Pxr

[Lolzious]

That SSD is the worst on the market, change it for sure.

Also the CPU is a tad overkill. An 8350 or 6300 would be cheaper, and wouldn't be bottlenecked by the GPU.

[dedikater]

That SSD is the worst on the market, change it for sure.

Also the CPU is a tad overkill. An 8350 or 6300 would be cheaper, and wouldn't be bottlenecked by the GPU.

will do on the ssd i will switch to the cheaper corsair one thats still good and he wanted that cpu its the only requirement he had 

[Lolzious]

will do on the ssd i will switch to the cheaper corsair one thats still good and he wanted that cpu its the only requirement he had 

Oh.. weird

[nowva]

yolo ! whats weird ? 

[Lord Gaben]

Try getting him to buy a better GPU and a slower CPU

[Lotus]

For workstation tasks, amd CPUs are very good for the money. An FX-8320 would be great if that's all he did. However for gaming they are subpar. As such I'd get a Xeon e3 1231 V3 which crushes the fx in games and beats it in editing too. The tower components in your build totalled about $850, so I pit together an $850 build that i believe would do better. I dont know the workload, but 16GB memory is too much for gaming, so unless he needs it for editin you can drop it down to 8GB.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($242.99 @ SuperBiiz)

Motherboard: ASRock H97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($71.99 @ SuperBiiz)

Memory: G.Skill Sniper Gaming Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($117.00 @ Newegg)

Storage: Crucial BX100 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($108.99 @ NCIX US)

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($39.99 @ Best Buy)

Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 280 3GB TWIN FROZR Video Card ($189.99 @ Newegg)

Case: Fractal Design FD-CA-CORE-3300-BL ATX Mid Tower Case ($44.99 @ NCIX US)

Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($41.99 @ SuperBiiz)

Total: $857.93

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

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