High End Photo Editing and Animation Creation PC

[Ikaron]

My sister is going to university for visual arts and would like a new computer for school and future work. She will most likely go on with the career.

Her budget is around 2500$ Canadian with the monitor and the the rest of the parts.

She will be using almost all of the programs in Creative Suite 6 and will be doing a little bit of gaming with this PC as well but it will not be anything graphically intense so I am not worried about maxing the settings or anything like that.

This is the list on PC Partpicker

PCPartPicker part list: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/L36VKZ
Price breakdown by merchant: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/L36VKZ/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 1700 3.0GHz 8-Core Processor ($393.00 @ Amazon Canada)
Motherboard: MSI - B350M PRO-VDH Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($106.99 @ Amazon Canada)
Memory: Crucial - Ballistix Sport LT 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($315.33 @ Amazon Canada)
Storage: ADATA - Premier Pro SP600 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($117.55 @ Amazon Canada)
Storage: Seagate - BarraCuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($63.98 @ Amazon Canada)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB SC2 Gaming iCX Video Card ($694.31 @ Amazon Canada)
Case: BitFenix - Prodigy M Arctic White MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($157.13 @ Amazon Canada)
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($119.99)
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit ($40.00)
Wireless Network Adapter: Gigabyte - GC-WB867D-I PCI-Express x1 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi Adapter ($49.00 @ Amazon Canada)
Monitor: Asus - PB258Q 25.0" 2560x1440 60Hz Monitor ($429.99 @ Amazon Canada)
Total: $2487.27
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-07-25 15:28 EDT-0400

I would like to buy everything from amazon and keep the case the same since that is my sister's favourite case.

Please leave any constructive criticism in the comments. Thanks a bunch!

 

[USAFRet]

I don't see anything glaringly wrong, except the 1TB HDD space may turn out to be a bit slim.
More drives are easy to add, though.


And of course, be thinking of a backup solution. A 2TB external something.
(Any data that lives on a single drive may be said to not exist at all)

 

[mjslakeridge]

How are you getting Windows 10 Home for $40? Is this a student discount?

 

[USAFRet]

Ah...didn't notice that OS cost.
Agreed...unless this is a student license....$40 ain't legit.

 

[mjslakeridge]

On the first PCPartpicker link the OS cost of $40 seems to be hard coded. On the second link, it has the merchant as Amazon.ca for $374.01!

 

[Ikaron]

How are you getting Windows 10 Home for $40? Is this a student discount?

Yeah its a university student discount

 

[Ikaron]

Ah...didn't notice that OS cost.
Agreed...unless this is a student license....$40 ain't legit.

It's a student discount at the university

 

[USAFRet]

Ah...didn't notice that OS cost.
Agreed...unless this is a student license....$40 ain't legit.

It's a student discount at the university

OK...just checking.

 

[mjslakeridge]

Good looking build. As said above, make sure you have a backup solution (external, network, cloud) since this computer will be for school/work.

 

[Ikaron]

Good looking build. As said above, make sure you have a backup solution (external, network, cloud) since this computer will be for school/work.

Thanks! I will talk about the back up to my sister and see if she can pull a little more money out if not I'll give it to her as a present or something

 

[USAFRet]

Oh crap I got a ransomware virus
Oh crap my hard drive died
Oh crap I accidentally deleted/overwrote that term paper
Oh crap the power got cut off and corrupted my file
etc, etc, etc....

That is what backups are for.

 

[Ikaron]

Oh crap I got a ransomware virus
Oh crap my hard drive died
Oh crap I accidentally deleted/overwrote that term paper
Oh crap the power got cut off and corrupted my file
etc, etc, etc....

That is what backups are for.

Yeah, I will get her a external hard drive if she cant afford it since she has to pay for uni as well

 

[bloodroses]

By chance, would she be further off going with an equivalently priced Quadro card? I know gaming performance wise it won't be as fast, but is it possibly better for Creative Suite?

 

[USAFRet]

By chance, would she be further off going with an equivalently priced Quadro card? I know gaming performance wise it won't be as fast, but is it possibly better for Creative Suite?

For an all around system, that 1080 is just fine.
For a single use work system, then maybe a Quadro of some sort.

 

[Ikaron]

By chance, would she be further off going with an equivalently priced Quadro card? I know gaming performance wise it won't be as fast, but is it possibly better for Creative Suite?

For an all around system, that 1080 is just fine.
For a single use work system, then maybe a Quadro of some sort.

Yeah, she will be doing a variety of stuff on this PC so I figured that the Normal gaming graphics card would be fine