Build for a friend of mine

[CinemaAttic]

Hello guys, my friend wants to build his first pc and is unsure of what he should get. His budget is $1300 SGD

He'll be using it for Photoshop, CGI stuff and gaming.

Current build

LGA1151) Intel Core i5 6500 3.2GHz - [S$312.00] 

(LGA1151) Asus B150M-C (M-ATX) - [S$178.00]

DDR4 Kingston 2133Mhz CL 15 KVR21N15D8/8 (8GB) - [S$80.00]

Samsung 850 EVO 250GB 2.5" SSD SATA III - [S$159.00]

Asus Geforce GTX1050Ti 4GB EX-GTX1050TI-4G - [S$259.00]

Coolermaster N200 with Side Window (MATX) - [S$75.00]

Seasonic M12II 520 Bronze 520W - [S$105.00]

 

and should he get an optical drive? or na?

 

[Phentos]

Build is reasonably solid. However...

 

I'm not familiar with Singapore's import policies and taxes, nor am I familiar with the exchange against USD. So I can't comment on whether the build is worth the money.

[mrbuz]

yeah i would chuck in the optical drive

[mrbuz]

looks good

[Herman Mcpootis]

12 minutes ago, CinemaAttic said:

Hello guys, my friend wants to build his first pc and is unsure of what he should get. His budget is $1300 SGD

He'll be using it for Photoshop, CGI stuff and gaming.

Current build

LGA1151) Intel Core i5 6500 3.2GHz - [S$312.00] 

(LGA1151) Asus B150M-C (M-ATX) - [S$178.00]

DDR4 Kingston 2133Mhz CL 15 KVR21N15D8/8 (8GB) - [S$80.00]

Samsung 850 EVO 250GB 2.5" SSD SATA III - [S$159.00]

Asus Geforce GTX1050Ti 4GB EX-GTX1050TI-4G - [S$259.00]

Coolermaster N200 with Side Window (MATX) - [S$75.00]

Seasonic M12II 520 Bronze 520W - [S$105.00]

 

 

and should he get an optical drive? or na?

 

are you getting this from local stores or amazon?

[CinemaAttic]

2 minutes ago, Phentos said:

Build is reasonably solid. However...

 

I'm not familiar with Singapore's import policies and taxes, nor am I familiar with the exchange against USD. So I can't comment on whether the build is worth the money.

 

 

2 minutes ago, mrbuz said:

yeah i would chuck in the optical drive

 

well he's gonna use this build for photoshop and video editing as well, would the i5 now suffice?

[CinemaAttic]

Just now, herman mcpootis said:

are you getting this from local stores or amazon?

local store

[Phentos]

2 minutes ago, CinemaAttic said:

 

 

well he's gonna use this build for photoshop and video editing as well, would the i5 now suffice?

What kind of videos does he expect to deal with? 1080p+ high bitrate? Lossless?

 

What video editing program?

[PCGeek]

Looks good.  Is he looking to have further expansion?  Because then I would recommend getting a better case like a Fractal Design Define Mini, and maybe at least a 650W 80Plus Gold PSU.  Seasonic is a great PSU manufacturer but the trend I've observed is that more quality these days go into 80Plus Gold PSUs.

[CinemaAttic]

he intends to swap the current cpu in the build to an  (LGA1151) Intel Core i3 6100 3.7GHz , is that okay? he's changing his mind to just doing gaming lol

[CinemaAttic]

2 minutes ago, Phentos said:

What kind of videos does he expect to deal with? 1080p+ high bitrate? Lossless?

 

What video editing program?

 

vegas pro probably

[Megah3rtz]

Whats the price of an RX470? 

[Herman Mcpootis]

18 minutes ago, CinemaAttic said:

local store

cpu and mobo:i7 6700 and asrock h110m-hdv $559 the i7 will help alot for video editing.

graphics card:msi gtx 1060 6gb $319*

ram:kingston ddr4 16gb valueram $153

ssd:pny 240gb $98

hdd:toshiba 1tb $64

psu:seasonic s12g 450w $79

case:tecware f3 $38

total:$1310

*after countdown 2017 $60 off coupon 

all prices not linked from pcthemes.

[Phentos]

1 hour ago, CinemaAttic said:

vegas pro probably

An i5 would be sufficient if your friend uses CUDA acceleration when encoding in Vegas.

 

GPU-assisted acceleration, as a rule, usually degrades the quality a bit more than CPU-only rendering. However, for Youtube, this hardly matters as their compression (read: butchering) system does its thing as well.