$1500 USD Editing / Gaming Build

[RevoltTrain]

I was wondering what I could do to improve this $1500 USD build for gaming and editing videos. My current PC is starting to feel a bit dated with gaming and feeling extremely dated when editing footage from my GoPro Hero 3+ Black Edition. Would I be better with getting a smaller SSD and a Bigger HDD to go with a more powerful GPU? Or would this build be better than just about any other in the $1500 USD Budget?

 

I really want a mid tower, last year I bought a Silent Base 800 when they first came out, loved the case, but just too big for me to lug to LAN parties every weekend so I went back to my old case.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($253.87 @ OutletPC) 

CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i GTX 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($104.20 @ Amazon) 

Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($162.99 @ Directron) 

Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($83.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($159.75 @ OutletPC) 

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($65.88 @ OutletPC) 

Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 390 8GB Video Card  ($329.88 @ OutletPC) 

Case: NZXT H440 (White/Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($118.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 1000G2 1000W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($163.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Other: Fan Spliter ($11.99)

Total: $1455.53

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-08 07:08 EST-0500

[C0LL0SS0S]

if you are serious about editing get the i7

[UnlimitedTMD]

isn`t that PSU a bit overkill? Crossfire would not even need that much

[Josephdalepi]

 

I was wondering what I could do to improve this $1500 USD build for gaming and editing videos. My current PC is starting to feel a bit dated with gaming and feeling extremely dated when editing footage from my GoPro Hero 3+ Black Edition. Would I be better with getting a smaller SSD and a Bigger HDD to go with a more powerful GPU? Or would this build be better than just about any other in the $1500 USD Budget?

 

I really want a mid tower, last year I bought a Silent Base 800 when they first came out, loved the case, but just too big for me to lug to LAN parties every weekend so I went back to my old case.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($253.87 @ OutletPC) 

CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i GTX 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($104.20 @ Amazon) 

Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($162.99 @ Directron) 

Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($83.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($159.75 @ OutletPC) 

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($65.88 @ OutletPC) 

Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 390 8GB Video Card  ($329.88 @ OutletPC) 

Case: NZXT H440 (White/Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($118.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 1000G2 1000W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($163.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Other: Fan Spliter ($11.99)

Total: $1455.53

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-08 07:08 EST-0500

 

thatll work great

to be honest though, an nvidia card may be better for editing and such

[RevoltTrain]

if you are serious about editing get the i7

Even if I'm planning on OCing the i5?

[UpsetPeck]

Even if I'm planning on OCing the i5?

yes an i7 will be much better

[RevoltTrain]

isn`t that PSU a bit overkill? Crossfire would not even need that much

I have it in there just as a place holder until I'm closer to buying the parts and if the build plan changes

[themctipers]

Even if I'm planning on OCing the i5?

No. I think he ment if your editing videos 24/7 or doing it for work not personal videos then yes.

But the i5 will do..

[kameshss]

That motherboard is expensive. You don't need that.

 

Here is a better build. I changed the 500 GB SSD to 250 GB SSD.

 

R9 390 to 980 Ti. Best card.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($253.87 @ OutletPC) 

CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i GTX 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($104.20 @ Amazon) 

Motherboard: MSI Z170-A PRO ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($99.99 @ Amazon) 

Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($83.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($84.88 @ OutletPC) 

Storage: Toshiba  2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($68.59 @ OutletPC) 

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB FTW ACX 2.0+ Video Card  ($597.99 @ NCIX US) 

Case: NZXT H440 (White/Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($118.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Power Supply: EVGA 850W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($74.99 @ Newegg) 

Other: Fan Spliter ($11.99)

Total: $1499.48

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-08 07:15 EST-0500

[RevoltTrain]

No. I think he ment if your editing videos 24/7 or doing it for work not personal videos then yes.

But the i5 will do..

It's just for my personal channel, which is nothing super serious. Not for work at all

[SaladFingers]

How much editing are you planning to be doing? If it's a lot, you would probably benefit from the X99 platform instead of the Z170 because you can get more cores.

 

About your storage question, I think the 500gb SSD is perfectly fine. What are you planning to do with it? OS + programs and maybe few games you play the most often? If you are going to use it as a scratch disk then you could need more, but as I don't edit much I'm not the best to tell you about your editing workflow. You could do 256gb to save up though. It should still plenty enough if you don't want many games on it. As for the hard drive, that's mostly up to you, do you think 2tb is enough for your current and future use?

 

About the video card. That GPU is a great choice. The question is, what are your needs? You're thinking on saving up on your drives to pick a better graphics card, but why? What are your expectations, what resolution and quality settings would you be running on?

[RevoltTrain]

How much editing are you planning to be doing? If it's a lot, you would probably benefit from the X99 platform instead of the Z170 because you can get more cores.

 

About your storage question, I think the 500gb SSD is perfectly fine. What are you planning to do with it? OS + programs and maybe few games you play the most often? If you are going to use it as a scratch disk then you could need more, but as I don't edit much I'm not the best to tell you about your editing workflow. You could do 256gb to save up though. It should still plenty enough if you don't want many games on it. As for the hard drive, that's mostly up to you, do you think 2tb is enough for your current and future use?

 

About the video card. That GPU is a great choice. The question is, what are your needs? You're thinking on saving up on your drives to pick a better graphics card, but why? What are your expectations, what resolution and quality settings would you be running on?

SSD would be for OS and a few games and programs.

 

Was thinking about a more powerful GPU as once i have this PC I'd be selling my current monitors and saving up for something more high res than 1080p.

 

Not a ton of editing, maybe a video or two a week, if that

[RevoltTrain]

 

That motherboard is expensive. You don't need that.

 

Here is a better build. I changed the 500 GB SSD to 250 GB SSD.

 

R9 390 to 980 Ti. Best card.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($253.87 @ OutletPC) 

CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i GTX 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($104.20 @ Amazon) 

Motherboard: MSI Z170-A PRO ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($99.99 @ Amazon) 

Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($83.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($84.88 @ OutletPC) 

Storage: Toshiba  2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($68.59 @ OutletPC) 

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB FTW ACX 2.0+ Video Card  ($597.99 @ NCIX US) 

Case: NZXT H440 (White/Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($118.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Power Supply: EVGA 850W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($74.99 @ Newegg) 

Other: Fan Spliter ($11.99)

Total: $1499.48

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-08 07:15 EST-0500

 

I was wondering if that CPU / GPU matchup would hold the GPU back from maxing out some games. I doubt it, but I'm still not sure as I haven't looked into Skylake too much.

[Wishiwasdead]

if you're going to get the Seagate Barracuda 2 TB you might as well get the 3 TB - much better Price / GB ratio 

[UnlimitedTMD]

Even if I'm planning on OCing the i5?

 

I tink 850 will be more than enough

[HKZeroFive]

Doesn't look like you'll be doing intense rendering/editing so this will cater more for gaming but I've still given you 16GB for RAM for editing. Of course, an i5 will still do the job fine at a lower cost.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($329.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X61 106.1 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler  ($117.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($114.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  ($74.87 @ OutletPC) 

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($84.88 @ OutletPC) 

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($49.98 @ OutletPC) 

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Superclocked+ ACX 2.0+ Video Card  ($617.99 @ NCIX US) 

Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($63.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 620W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($64.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Total: $1519.67

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-08 07:25 EST-0500

[SaladFingers]

SSD would be for OS and a few games and programs.

 

Was thinking about a more powerful GPU as once i have this PC I'd be selling my current monitors and saving up for something more high res than 1080p.

 

Not a ton of editing, maybe a video or two a week, if that

 

I see, So you're probably better off with this platform and this CPU. If you want more than 1080p then perhaps you could use a more expensive GPU, but then it also depends on how far you want to go. A guy above suggested a 980ti, but the price gets a bit on the high side. You could also look at AMD's Fury X which performs roughly the same. But those are pretty high end cards and very expensive. If gaming is your no1 priority and you plan to move higher than 1080p in the future, then it could make sense. Another thing to note would be that it shouldn't take too long for next generation of cards to be out this year. So there's that, if you can wait on the card it could work out better for you.

[Wishiwasdead]

 

Even if I'm planning on OCing the i5?

 

 

you cant overclock enough to make up for hyper-threading

[kameshss]

I was wondering if that CPU / GPU matchup would hold the GPU back from maxing out some games. I doubt it, but I'm still not sure as I haven't looked into Skylake too much.

6600K can hold 980 Ti's in SLI config. 

 

Even a 4460 can do that.

[C0LL0SS0S]

Even if I'm planning on OCing the i5?

yes

[The_Sandman]

I was wondering if that CPU / GPU matchup would hold the GPU back from maxing out some games. I doubt it, but I'm still not sure as I haven't looked into Skylake too much.

 

No the 6600K will definitely not hold back the 980Ti

[RevoltTrain]

No the 6600K will definitely not hold back the 980Ti

I didn't think so. But I haven't really looked into Skylake, or newer GPUs as my CPU really would hold back a ton of them. So I haven't looked into them really

[SaladFingers]

6600K can hold 980 Ti's in SLI config. 

 

Even a 4460 can do that.

 

Yeh, mainly because of its lack of lanes available. But for a single card setup it won't be a bottleneck at all.

[The_Sandman]

I didn't think so. But I haven't really looked into Skylake, or newer GPUs as my CPU really would hold back a ton of them. So I haven't looked into them really

 

 

From my experience the 6600K is great and overclocks really well. I got mine at 4,7GHz @ 1.32 Volts for 24/7 use. I'm really happy with it

[RevoltTrain]

From my experience the 6600K is great and overclocks really well. I got mine at 4,7GHz @ 1.32 Volts for 24/7 use. I'm really happy with it

Are you happy with your whole build?