PC Build advice/opinions needed

[Cytex01]

Greeting LTT community,

 

I'm planning a new build for myself. The main things I (want to be able to) do with my pc is; webdesign, graphics design (PS, AE, AI etc.), video editing (PR) (casual), occasional gaming, sound editing (like producing/mixing/mastering/recording etc.) (casual). Sound and video editing will (mostly) be used for my hobby's.

My main question is with which of the two motherboards I should go; Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Ultra Gaming or Gigabyte AORUS GA-Z270X-GAMING 5. 

What are exactly the differences except looks?

 

 

Here is the build I came up with:

 

Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Ultra Gaming // Gigabyte AORUS GA-Z270X-GAMING 5

Intel Core i7 7700K Boxed

Asus ROG STRIX-RX480-8G-GAMING

Corsair Vengeance LPX CMK16GX4M2B3000C15

WD Blue WD10EZEX 1TB

Samsung 960 EVO 250 GB

BitFenix Whisper BWG650M

Thermaltake Water 3.0 Riing RGB 360

Thermaltake Riing 12 RGB, 120mm (3-pack)

NZXT Hue+ Black

NZXT Aer RGB120 Single Pack

BitFenix Pandora ATX

[gtx1060=value]

the riing rgb fans aren't very good from reviews online so i'd stay away from those and just get nzxt fans - 

[COUPER MILLAR]

You may want to consider ryzen as you would be someone who would benefit from the higher core count. The r7 1700 is going to be about the same price, but you will double the core and thread counts. There have also been some leaks that it overclock to the point of beating the 7700k in single threaded tasks too which would be great for gaming. 

[Ev0shot]

The aorus has rgb led too.Both are great mobos but with the same chip inside.Do you have that cpu or you are planning to buy it. If not just wait for ryzen to come out. After bebchmarks hit and prices go down you can either buy a multicore ryzen which will benefit video editing or grab the cpu you want at an even greater price

[Cytex01]

1 hour ago, gtx1060=value said:

the riing rgb fans aren't very good from reviews online so i'd stay away from those and just get nzxt fans - 

Really? The Water 3.0 or the fans them selfs? One of the reasons i choose TT over NZXT was that NZXT doesnt have a 360mm AIO but if Tt really is that bad compared to NZXT. Then I will go with NZXT.

 

So get Kraken and 3-pack fans or could I just replace the fans on the Water 3.0 AIO?

[Cytex01]

1 hour ago, COUPER MILLAR said:

You may want to consider ryzen as you would be someone who would benefit from the higher core count. The r7 1700 is going to be about the same price, but you will double the core and thread counts. There have also been some leaks that it overclock to the point of beating the 7700k in single threaded tasks too which would be great for gaming. 

1 hour ago, Ev0shot said:

The aorus has rgb led too.Both are great mobos but with the same chip inside.Do you have that cpu or you are planning to buy it. If not just wait for ryzen to come out. After bebchmarks hit and prices go down you can either buy a multicore ryzen which will benefit video editing or grab the cpu you want at an even greater price

I think that is the best thing to do. I'll just have to be patient and wait for a while.

I was just curious about the differences besides esthetics. And if I would benefit from it.

[gtx1060=value]

1 hour ago, Cytex01 said:

Really? The Water 3.0 or the fans them selfs? One of the reasons i choose TT over NZXT was that NZXT doesnt have a 360mm AIO but if Tt really is that bad compared to NZXT. Then I will go with NZXT.

 

So get Kraken and 3-pack fans or could I just replace the fans on the Water 3.0 AIO?

the fans on the water 3.0 aio - the kraken looks better but has slightly worse cooling

[Cytex01]

1 hour ago, gtx1060=value said:

the fans on the water 3.0 aio - the kraken looks better but has slightly worse cooling

Thank you very much for your advice! Really appreciate it. I will get other fans for the Tt AIO. Do you recommend the NZXT Aer RGB?

[gtx1060=value]

Just now, Cytex01 said:

Thank you very much for your advice! Really appreciate it. I will get other fans for the Tt AIO. Do you recommend the NZXT Aer RGB?

yes i do - nzxt aer looks the best in my opinion - have 4 of them in my build - get an nzxt hue and then plug in some led strips for more rgb goodness

[Cytex01]

Just now, gtx1060=value said:

yes i do - nzxt aer looks the best in my opinion - have 4 of them in my build - get an nzxt hue and then plug in some led strips for more rgb goodness

Awesome thanks! I already had HUE+ in my build list (for the LED strips). Should I also replace the 3-pack Tt fans (not from the AIO, intented for front intake) with NZXT?

[gtx1060=value]

Just now, Cytex01 said:

Awesome thanks! I already had HUE+ in my build list (for the LED strips). Should I also replace the 3-pack Tt fans (not from the AIO, intented for front intake) with NZXT?

well that really depends - thermaltake fans are pretty decent but if you want rgb then go with aer - corsair ML fans are also good for general use but they don't have rgb

[Cytex01]

Just now, gtx1060=value said:

well that really depends - thermaltake fans are pretty decent but if you want rgb then go with aer - corsair ML fans are also good for general use but they don't have rgb

Ah I see. Thank you for your time and advice!

[gtx1060=value]

Just now, Cytex01 said:

Ah I see. Thank you for your time and advice!

for the fans on your aio - if they will be visible, get aer - in fact just get aer in general - they're pretty good fans 

[Cytex01]

8 minutes ago, gtx1060=value said:

for the fans on your aio - if they will be visible, get aer - in fact just get aer in general - they're pretty good fans 

Yeah I think I will replace all the Tt fans with AER fans. Will do some research myself, no offense I trust what you say is true. Thanks

[gtx1060=value]

Just now, Cytex01 said:

Yeah I think I will replace all the Tt fans with AER fans. Will do some research myself, no offense I trust what you say is true. Thanks

please do - still unsure if corsair ml or rgb fans perform better than aer on water cooling

[Cytex01]

2 minutes ago, gtx1060=value said:

please do - still unsure if corsair ml or rgb fans perform better than aer on water cooling

Ah Okay, I will look into that (or at least try to). Think I won't be able to do so tonight, but maybe tomorrow I can do some research.

[AndiRoth]

Well given the current situation we are in in the tech world, I would consider waiting a bit and maybe getting an AMD R7 1700X instead of the 7700k from Intel. I'm running the 5820k from Intel and more cores are realy useful for editing videos and even doing sound stuff. And dpending on which program you use to edit videos, I wouldn't buy an AMD GPU. Programms like Premiere are only benifiting from GPUs from Nvidia (CUDA cores are beeing used in Premire). Actually all software from Adobe is using CUDA acceleration and can't benefit from AMD GPUs.

[Cytex01]

28 minutes ago, AndiRoth said:

Well given the current situation we are in in the tech world, I would consider waiting a bit and maybe getting an AMD R7 1700X instead of the 7700k from Intel. I'm running the 5820k from Intel and more cores are realy useful for editing videos and even doing sound stuff. And dpending on which program you use to edit videos, I wouldn't buy an AMD GPU. Programms like Premiere are only benifiting from GPUs from Nvidia (CUDA cores are beeing used in Premire). Actually all software from Adobe is using CUDA acceleration and can't benefit from AMD GPUs.

Wow thank you. Never realized Adobe used CUDA cores. So I'll definitely wait for Ryzen. And I guess I will do some research for a NVidia card. When I first put this build together I had the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 Xtreme Gaming 6G. But went with the AMD because it is cheaper and I was told it performed equally (I guess gaming-wise). I will search some more for a card.

[brob]

If you can, wait for independent Ryzen reviews and non-gaming benchmarks. On the Intel side compare Ryzen cpu performance with i7-6800K which is better suited to the described system usage.

 

Years ago Adobe used to require CUDA gpu to accelerate rendering. Current Adobe releases provide acceleration equally well with recent AMD and Nvidia gpu. 

[Ev0shot]

As expected the first intel price cuts have arrived. 50 $ less(280) for i7 7700k and for all the other  cpus intel offers

[Cytex01]

12 hours ago, Ev0shot said:

As expected the first intel price cuts have arrived. 50 $ less(280) for i7 7700k and for all the other  cpus intel offers

Really? I live in the Netherlands, haven't seen the price drop yet. Keeping an eye out though

[Cytex01]

16 hours ago, brob said:

If you can, wait for independent Ryzen reviews and non-gaming benchmarks. On the Intel side compare Ryzen cpu performance with i7-6800K which is better suited to the described system usage.

 

Years ago Adobe used to require CUDA gpu to accelerate rendering. Current Adobe releases provide acceleration equally well with recent AMD and Nvidia gpu. 

So now with recent AMD and NVidia, it doesn't really matter for Adobe?

[brob]

11 hours ago, Cytex01 said:

So now with recent AMD and NVidia, it doesn't really matter for Adobe?

Correct for recent Adobe releases. See https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/system-requirements.html for details. It's a bit dated. Essentially any recent gpu that supports CUDA or OpenCL can be used for gpu acceleration.