PC Upgrade Check

[Beukgevaar]

Hello there!

I'm about to upgrade my current PC:

- AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition
- Scythe Mugen 5
- MSI Radeon R9 270x
- Asus M4A78T-E
- OCZ Reaper HPC DDR3 PC3-10666 (x2)
- Corsair HX620W
- Samsung 850 EVO 240 GB
- be quiet! Silent Base 600
- 2x HDD

The PC will mainly be used as a photographer who uses Lightroom, Premiere Pro and After Effects.
My current build has a hard time using premiere pro (timeline scrubbing) and rendering is getting slow(wer).
The upgrade I had in mind:

- AMD Ryzen 7 1700
- Gigabyte GA-AX370-Gaming 5 (or Gigabyte GA-AB350-GAMING 3 enough?)
- Corsair Vengeance LPX CMK16GX4M2B3200C16

And my question comes froms the idea if, that adding a M.2 (Samsung 960 EVO?) is helpfull and using the 850 EVO as cache disk?
Also, is my power supply sufficient for the new build?
Or should I go for 32GB of RAM instead of 16? Or is there even a better option then what I've found for the upgrade?

I would like to keep the cost around 600-700 euro (NL), unless the M.2 is really helpfull or that my power supply doesn't cut it or even when someone has an awesome solution upgrade that cost a little bit more?

Thanks in advance!

 

[imsqam]

In choosing a CPU you need to consider not just the type of programs that you will be using but also which revision.
Here both Lightroom and After Effects benefit more from higher core speeds with not much consideration to multi-core performance. Premiere Pro does benefit from higher core counts but is also dependent on single core speeds.
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Premiere-Pro-CC-2017-1-2-CPU-Comparison-Skylake-X-Kaby-Lake-X-Broadwell-E-Kaby-Lake-Ryzen-7-969/

To achieve the budget and taking into account the above I think the best choice is the Ryzen 5 1600X and not the 1700. The 0.6GHZ higher core speed will benefit you more than the extra two cores. As well, you will get performance approaching the i7-6850K while being about 45% cheaper. Added a decent air cooler so that you can add an overclock to the CPU should you desire to.
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-Ryzen-5-1600X-vs-AMD-Ryzen-7-1700/3920vs3917
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-Ryzen-5-1600X-vs-Intel-Core-i7-6850K/3920vs3606
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/75094-amd-ryzen-5-1600x-1500x-performance-review-7.html

RAM is much faster than the SSD and as long as you are not constantly exceeding your RAM limit then you are better off with more RAM. And you really want 32GB min anyways. The RAM here is 2x16GB so that adding more is possible should you desire to.

Pricing is based on the NL website.

PCPartPicker part list: https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/rd2w2R
Price breakdown by merchant: https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/rd2w2R/by_merchant/

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600X 3.6GHz 6-Core Processor (€265.00)
CPU Cooler: Noctua - NH-U9B SE2 37.9 CFM CPU Cooler (€53.00)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-AB350-GAMING 3 ATX AM4 Motherboard (€129.00)
Memory: G.Skill - Flare X 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (€258.00)
Total: €705.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-07-26 13:55 CEST+0200

http://www.informatique.nl/573952/g-skill-flarex-32gb-2x16gb-ddr4-2400mhz.html
http://www.informatique.nl/572871/gigabyte-ga-ab350-gaming-3-moederbord.html
http://www.informatique.nl/467540/noctua-nh-u9b-se2.html
http://www.informatique.nl/574315/amd-ryzen-5-1600x-4-0ghz-am4.html