First PC build

[Chalkywoods]

Hi, I'm hoping to build my first PC soon and was looking for some help.

 

The criteria I'm looking for :

• Run Lightroom and Photoshop very well (this is one of the main reasons for the upgrade)
• Be relatively future-proof, though I realise there's a few components ill have to upgrade eventually
• Run games at 1080p with a playable frame rate, I'm not looking at current AAA titles but I hope to run most pre-2016 games well
• Limited desk space so quite small
• Only needs to look basic, I don't want any side windows or RGB
• It doesn't have to be quiet, as long as it isn't unusually loud

This is my current parts list:

• Core i5-7500 (£195.99)
  • I've read that Lightroom is reliant mostly on single cores so I went for a good speed, I originally had the skylake equivalent but this was only £6 more on amazon
• Stock cooler
  • I won't be overclocking so I assume this is fine?
• Gigabyte GA-B150M-D3H DDR3 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£46.90)
  • I think this has everything I need including support for more RAM if I ever need it, is being restricted to DDR3 an issue?
• Crucial Ballistix Tactical 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£85.51)
• PNY CS1311 120GB SSD (£39.47) or Intel 600p Series 128GB M.2-2280 SSD (£51.92)
  • I'll definitely have Windows and my core programs on an SSD but I'm not too bothered about files, will 120GB be enough?
  • SATA or M.2, is it worth the extra? read/write speeds don't seem to be much higher at these small capacities
• Toshiba P300 2TB HDD (£62.99)
• Zotac GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB (£139.98)
  • Seems to have good specs for the price but I'm unsure if its enough
• Fractal Design Core 1100 MicroATX Case (£36.95)
  • Cheap, small and looks good but will cable management be a problem? it wont have to look good inside
• Corsair CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Semi-Modular ATX PSU (£52.73)
  • Enough power? Too much?
• Cheap optical drive (£13.61)

The whole thing comes to £683.28, I'd rather not spend much more than this

Here's the part picker link:

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/z8MRqk

 

If there's anything I can improve or should change I'd love your feedback, thanks  

 

[The Sloth]

cpu doesn't support ddr3 ram 

motherboard cannot be updated without a cpu because it doesn't support the usb bios update. 

 

[cpuwaiy]

Issue with buying a kaby lake processor with a skylake motherboard. 

 

If the motherboard doesn't ALREADY have have the latest BIOS that supports kaby lake, you may need to buy a skylake processor to do the bios update before your system woold work with the kaby lake.

[The Sloth]

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/Zdtjqk

[Chalkywoods]

20 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/Zdtjqk

Cheers, did you go for a lesser CPU and less RAM so that the 480 fit in my budget or was it overkill to start with?

[Herman Mcpootis]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-7400 3.0GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£176.90 @ Alza) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H110M-H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£39.98 @ Amazon UK) 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (£73.13 @ Misco UK) 
Storage: SK hynix SL308 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£64.98 @ Ebuyer) 
Storage: Toshiba 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£35.94 @ Aria PC) 
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon RX 480 8GB Video Card  (£215.99 @ Amazon UK) 
Case: BitFenix Nova ATX Mid Tower Case  (£23.04 @ Aria PC) 
Power Supply: Antec EarthWatts Green 380W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£37.97 @ Ebuyer) 
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-14 DVD/CD Writer  (£13.61 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £681.54
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-01-18 01:12 GMT+0000

[The Sloth]

3 hours ago, Chalkywoods said:

Cheers, did you go for a lesser CPU and less RAM so that the 480 fit in my budget or was it overkill to start with?

what do you mean by a lesser cpu and less ram your pc build wouldn't work, ddr3 paired with kabylake platform that's a joke. this would work https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/syFcyf kabylake is not worth the money for what you are doing, you can't update the bios with a usb on a cheap motherboard like that.  

[BurntNewt]

6 hours ago, Chalkywoods said:

Hi, I'm hoping to build my first PC soon and was looking for some help.

 

The criteria I'm looking for :

• Run Lightroom and Photoshop very well (this is one of the main reasons for the upgrade)
• Be relatively future-proof, though I realise there's a few components ill have to upgrade eventually
• Run games at 1080p with a playable frame rate, I'm not looking at current AAA titles but I hope to run most pre-2016 games well
• Limited desk space so quite small
• Only needs to look basic, I don't want any side windows or RGB
• It doesn't have to be quiet, as long as it isn't unusually loud

This is my current parts list:

• Core i5-7500 (£195.99)
  • I've read that Lightroom is reliant mostly on single cores so I went for a good speed, I originally had the skylake equivalent but this was only £6 more on amazon
• Stock cooler
  • I won't be overclocking so I assume this is fine?
• Gigabyte GA-B150M-D3H DDR3 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£46.90)
  • I think this has everything I need including support for more RAM if I ever need it, is being restricted to DDR3 an issue?
• Crucial Ballistix Tactical 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£85.51)
• PNY CS1311 120GB SSD (£39.47) or Intel 600p Series 128GB M.2-2280 SSD (£51.92)
  • I'll definitely have Windows and my core programs on an SSD but I'm not too bothered about files, will 120GB be enough?
  • SATA or M.2, is it worth the extra? read/write speeds don't seem to be much higher at these small capacities
• Toshiba P300 2TB HDD (£62.99)
• Zotac GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB (£139.98)
  • Seems to have good specs for the price but I'm unsure if its enough
• Fractal Design Core 1100 MicroATX Case (£36.95)
  • Cheap, small and looks good but will cable management be a problem? it wont have to look good inside
• Corsair CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Semi-Modular ATX PSU (£52.73)
  • Enough power? Too much?
• Cheap optical drive (£13.61)

The whole thing comes to £683.28, I'd rather not spend much more than this

Here's the part picker link:

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/z8MRqk

 

If there's anything I can improve or should change I'd love your feedback, thanks  

 

If you don't mind going even smaller you can always use a mini itx which is a smaller form factor that can fit in smaller cases while still being able to fit any gpu

[Chalkywoods]

10 hours ago, nerdslayer1 said:

what do you mean by a lesser cpu and less ram your pc build wouldn't work, ddr3 paired with kabylake platform that's a joke. this would work https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/syFcyf kabylake is not worth the money for what you are doing, you can't update the bios with a usb on a cheap motherboard like that.  

Yeah I get the incompatibility issues and thanks for fixing that up, but I noticed you swapped the 7500 for the 6400, instead of the 6500, is that you saying that it was more than I needed? I went with kaby lake because it was only a tiny bit more expensive but it doesn't seem worth the incompatibilities, so skylake it is

[Chalkywoods]

7 hours ago, BurntNewt said:

If you don't mind going even smaller you can always use a mini itx which is a smaller form factor that can fit in smaller cases while still being able to fit any gpu

My worry was a really small case would be hard to build into, do you think it would be too difficult for a first time?

[The Sloth]

6 hours ago, Chalkywoods said:

My worry was a really small case would be hard to build into, do you think it would be too difficult for a first time?

yup usually it is but it really depends on the person, when i first built my htpc it was really easy.  also https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/j3vzHN get a 6700 if you can spend a bit more.