Would like feedback on mobo and video card choices

[Lisa.Lisa]

 

Budget: $1200-1600

Location: BC, Canada

Intended Use: Photoshop, graphic design, and smaller video editing and 3D animation projects

Monitors: 2

 

What I want: something fast that can multi-task well

What I don't need: Not planning on overclocking or gaming, and not concerned about aesthetics, 

 

 

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($443.45 @ Vuugo)   (I've heard photoshop does well with i7)
Motherboard: MSI B150 PC Mate ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($118.75 @ Vuugo) 
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($89.99 @ Canada Computers) 
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($57.99 @ Canada Computers) 
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($65.75 @ shopRBC) 
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 2GB SuperSC ACX 2.0+ Video Card  ($239.99 @ NCIX) 
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case  ($76.45 @ Vuugo) 
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($109.00 @ shopRBC) 
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit)  ($124.00 @ shopRBC) 
Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WDN4800 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter  ($43.98 @ DirectCanada) 

 

Total: $1369.35

 

 

 

[RoroTheDeer]

Change the SSD for an 850 EVO. The V300 isn't as good as advertised.

 

Other than that, a good build!

[W E S T V I R G I N I A]

I agree with Insp1r3, the Kingston V300 is not a very good SSD now, they changed a few of the key components they used and people are getting low read and write speeds compared with what is advertised. I originally was going to go with that drive but I swapped to a SanDisk 128GB SSD and it has performed excellently.

[Sentryy]

The V300 is not very good, just the other day someone had one and it was all over the place jumping from 75 MB/s to 300 MB/s half a second later. I would not recommend a V300 to anyone who want's a reliable SSD. 

[Guest]

I would go with this Seasonic G 550W over that EVGA NEX.

 

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/part/seasonic-power-supply-ssr550rm

 

[Lisa.Lisa]

Thanks for the feedback! So my mobo and video card are good choices for what I need then?

 

 

7 hours ago, lee32uk said:

I would go with this Seasonic G 550W over that EVGA NEX.

 

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/part/seasonic-power-supply-ssr550rm

 

What are your reasons for that? 

[Guest]

11 hours ago, Lisa.Lisa said:

 

What are your reasons for that? 

 

The Seasonic is a better quality psu.