Photo / Video editing pc on a £1000 budget

[Aaron McKeown]

Hi guys, im about to build myself my first computer and i will be mainly using it for photo editing and the odd bit of video editing until i get more experience.

this is the list of equipment i have come up with so far

please let me know if i have missed anything,

im using photoshop CC, Lightroom 5, Premier pro and after effects

i havent included monitor, hdd or peripherals as i have them allready


Asus Z97-PRO(Wi-Fi ac), Intel Z97, Socket 1150, Motherboard
EVGA GeForce GTX 760 Superclocked ACX Nvidia Graphics Card - 2GB
Aerocool X-Predator Black Large Tower Gaming Case No PSU
Corsair Memory Vengeance Pro Series Silver 8GB DDR3 2133 MHz Dual Channel Desktop
Corsair AX860i Digital 860W Full Modular Power Supply (PSU) - CP-9020037-UK
Intel CPU i5-4670K 3.4GHz Socket 1150 Quad Core Haswell Retail with Heat Sink Fan
Corsair Hydro H80i CPU Water Cooler


all this will more than likely be purchased from www.scan.co.uk

 

[Aaron McKeown]

Are you planning to be spending a vast chunk of leisure time gaming on this pc perchance?

no gaming will be done, it will be dual booted as i want a side i can use for general use but no gaming,

 

[swifty_morgan]

xeon.

double up at least on the memory.

 

[Aaron McKeown]

Swifty is correct. You should go for an 8 threaded locked Xeon cpu, not an unlocked 4 thread. You could drop the price spent on the graphics card, and video editing really benefits from 16 gig ram.
You dont need water cooling either, if you want to offsett some expense.A $30 air cooler will do.

would this processer be ok ?? >> http://www.scan.co.uk/products/intel-xeon-e3-1240-v3-s-1150-haswell-quad-core-34ghz-base-38ghz-turbo-8mb-cache-80w-retail

also what is the difference, 16gb ram is a good idea

 

[swifty_morgan]

there's nothing wrong with that one. I got the 1230 v2.

seems like you're building a high end gamer instead of something for "work".

I put my money into the cpu and graphics for gaming/work. I buy less expensive boards and load up on ram. if you try a little harder you could knock a lot of expense out of that build.

 

[Aaron McKeown]

There is quite a lot of different options available so what I shall ask is can you reccomend me a list of equipment for a photo editing computer with the occasional video but I want to do a lot of video editing in the future to must be upgradeable the only piece I'm 100% getting is the motherboard