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Madusha
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So I am going into college next school year and I have factored in that I will have a bout 1,500 left over from the loan I took to use on my computer. I plan on becoming a computer science major and I am starting to feel the performance of my current PC dying down. I don't plan on playing any games at all. This computer will be mostly used for video editing and coding along with some light blender work. I already decided on what case I am getting. I don't plan on upgrading my gpu as I just got it recently. I don't know what to get, Normally I would get the most overkill, but recently after I seen the price of college I realize I need to save some money. What is the most bang for the buck items should I get? Thank you guys for your help.

 

GPU:

Power Color Red Dragon RX 480

CPU:

Intel i7 3770 (non k)
MOBO:

 PEGATRON 2AD5
PSU:

Hp 600 watt non-modular (Doesn't have any 80+ rating)
MEMEORY:

8gb of Samsung DDR3 memory running at 2390 mgz
CASE:
A HP Phoenix Case (a rondom one that I plan to replace with the NZXT S340 Elite)

STORAGE:

2 TB Mechanical HD +  an external 1 TB one used for file transfers

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SSD, better power supply and that S340 you plan on buying.

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1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

oh my god someone actually bought a rx 480 red dragon !!! how is temps and stuff? i have this card and absolutely hate it

My case is so constricted that my cousin who helped overclock it said that the performance is hindered by it. Other wise it is a fine card. I dont game that heavily the highest taxing one is city skylines and that is more CPU intensive. The temps are decent going to 76ish when under load. It gets really loud though. Also I only got it because it was massively off for Black Friday (and i got civ 6 with it)

 

7 minutes ago, Slottr said:

SSD, better power supply and that S340 you plan on buying.

So are you saying to just get a new PSU and an SSD? I have about 1500 to spend so I think that is undercutting what I can spend.

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What you should get imo:
Ryzen R7 1700

New mobo (of course)
16GB RAM
SSD
Good PSU
Finally NZXT S340 Elite

Desktop specs:

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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Just now, Madusha said:

 

My case is so constricted that my cousin who helped overclock it said that the performance is hindered by it. Other wise it is a fine card. I dont game that heavily the highest taxing one is city skylines and that is more CPU intensive. The temps are decent going to 76ish when under load. It gets really loud though. Also I only got it because it was massively off for Black Friday (and i got civ 6 with it)

 

So are you saying to just get a new PSU and an SSD? I have about 1500 to spend so I think that is undercutting what I can spend.

76 wow. lucky you. mine reaches 80 degrees with fan speed at 90-95% which is worse thana reference card but it was cheap, I can feel it

 

1 minute ago, Madusha said:

 

My case is so constricted that my cousin who helped overclock it said that the performance is hindered by it. Other wise it is a fine card. I dont game that heavily the highest taxing one is city skylines and that is more CPU intensive. The temps are decent going to 76ish when under load. It gets really loud though. Also I only got it because it was massively off for Black Friday (and i got civ 6 with it)

 

So are you saying to just get a new PSU and an SSD? I have about 1500 to spend so I think that is undercutting what I can spend.

1500 dollars or what currency are we reffering to? you might want to ditch that gpu lol and don't bother with PowerColor to RMA or smt it's useless i tried

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1 minute ago, Madusha said:

 

So are you saying to just get a new PSU and an SSD? I have about 1500 to spend so I think that is undercutting what I can spend.

Well you could get a new cpu, motherboard, memory, power supply, SSD etc. But the 3770 is still a decent cpu imo.

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7 minutes ago, Madusha said:

I have about 1500 to spend so I think that is undercutting what I can spend.

Save some money man

Desktop specs:

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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8 minutes ago, Madusha said:

What kind of wattage should I get? I think 600 is fine, but would I need to up the wattage for the build you are saying.

500-600 will be fine
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/ykb7gL

Desktop specs:

Spoiler

AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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23 minutes ago, ZM Fong said:

500-600 will be fine
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/ykb7gL

This, except get 3200 MHz ram instead.

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