gaming Planning to buy parts for a PC throughout this year, need opinions on the hardware
2 minutes ago, RKRiley said:For your use case(photo editing, light video editing) spend the extra £10 or whatever it is on a 1300 so you've got 4 cores & 8 threads, it'll make a difference.
You mean the 1500X/1400? The Ryzen 3 1300 has 4C/4T.
1 minute ago, AHybridWolf said:Well, the current PC I'm using right now has a Pentium G850 and it can handle light video editing and photoshop relatively well, sure it might take a while to load up Photoshop, but I don't think that extra cores/threads over an Ryzen 3 1200 would be necessary.
You'll like the additional cores. They make for snappier editing as you course through footage, and faster encoding afterwards.
My opinion on most parts is that you should wait and blow your load (teehee) in one week. I say this because the market is grim right now, with high GPU and RAM prices, and at the time you buy we might have newer technology available (specifically nvidia's 2000 series which could be worth looking at).
The slowness in loading the video editng software is in part due to CPU, in part due to storage. I definitely recommend an SSD for your build, as I do for pretty much every price point above $350.
There are better cases than the S340 that look similar but perform better, so maybe you want to look at one of those. I really like how the Corsair 400C looks.
10 minutes ago, AHybridWolf said:Monitor : AOC G2260VWQ6 21.5" 1920x1080 75hz Monitor
I chose to get a new monitor because my current 1366x768 monitor only has VGA and DVI Connectors, and I don't want to buy a converter.
As an onwer of this monitor, it doesn't come with a DisplayPort or HDMI cable, only a VGA, which doesn't allow freesync, so you'll have to buy one of those anyway if you want the adaptive sync. Otherwise I suppose you could run it on VGA.
11 minutes ago, AHybridWolf said:Memory : Crucial 2x4 Gb DDR4 2400 Memory
Now I really wanted a full black build, but getting 2x4 Kingston ram was too much for my budget, I will very likely switch to another ram whenever I have the oppurtunity.
But for now, this memory is well, memory. It goes dual-channel which is good for me atleast and it will do me good, it's ram, what else can you really say?
Some cheap Crucial or Mushkin RAM is black PCB with no heatspreader, you could look to get one of those.
12 minutes ago, AHybridWolf said:Storage : Kingston 120 Gb 2.5" SSD & Seagate Barracuda 3.5" 7200 RPM Hard Drive
No Kingston SSD to this date is any good at all. Grab an alternative at a low price point. There's the Crucial MX300/MX500, Hynix SL308, SanDisk Ultra II/Ultra 3D, WD Blue 3D, or Samsung 850/860 EVO.
13 minutes ago, AHybridWolf said:GPU : Zotac GTX 1050 Ti Mini
This is where i'd wait. The cryptocurrency market is still overbought right now even after the dump and I'm expecting a correction. Whether it's significant enough to stop miners from grabbing all the cards is unclear, but you should definitely wait as long as you can to hope for a better outlook in the graphics card department. By then the 2000 series may be available with something you can grab, or its release may motivate miners to sell their current cards used to grab the newest thing and flood the used market with Pascal and Polaris cards.
15 minutes ago, AHybridWolf said:Power Supply : Be Quiet! Pure Power 10 400W 80+ Silver and Semi-Modular
This power supply outputs 400 Watts of continous power, which will be more than enough for overclocking everything, CPU, GPU and possibly the ram also.
Good choice. I commend you on it.
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