My wife's PC died last weekend (thinking likely mobo failed). I built it roughly 10 years ago and had a few upgrades along the way, but its time was due.
Old specs:
Gigabyte Ultra Durable Motherboard AM3+ GA-970A-UD3
AMD FX 6100 6-Core Processor (AM3+) w/ stock cooler
G.Skill Ripjaw Series 4GB DDR3 1600 x 4 sticks
EVGA GeForce GT 730 1GB GDDR5 64bit
Samsung 850 EVO 250GB 2.5-Inch --> OS and apps
WD Blue 2TB Desktop Hard Disk Drive --> photo and other storage
Seasonic S12II 520
She was content with it, but I figured she could do with a performance upgrade anyway. She uses it mainly for professional photo editing and blogging.
As always, I usually try to build with bang-for-buck in mind, but was really hard to design what with poor supply of components and jacked up prices. This is what I came up with...
MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard
AMD Ryzen 5 3600
Deepcool GAMMAXX 400 V2 --> not planning on OC, but because I heard stock cooler was loud
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB x2 DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory x 2 sticks
Samsung 980 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive x2 sticks
Gigabyte GeForce NVidia RTX 2060 6 GB OC Video Card --> was about the only decent GPU I could find in stock that wasn't over 1000k; for new paid $699 for it :-(
Corsair CXM 550 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply
Here are my questions/thoughts and wanted to know what you think.
1.) Overall does this sound solid to you?
2.) Was the RTX 2060 overkill? I know it is overpriced but so was everything else. Would it have been better to get a CPU with integrated graphics ? I was getting mixed info regarding whether you truly needed a good GPU for professional photo editing. Monitor is going to be upgraded at some point to probably a ~27" QHD or better.
3.) Was doing 2 sticks of 1TB NVME overkill? I figured since there were 2 M.2 slots and the price of a 2TB stick was so much more expensive than 2 1TB and that similar size 2.5" SSDs were not much cheaper, why not? I was also thinking this would be easy to throw a platter or SSD drive in later if needed but should be plenty of space for her needs right now.
Any other advice is welcome and thanks for your help.
Old specs:
Gigabyte Ultra Durable Motherboard AM3+ GA-970A-UD3
AMD FX 6100 6-Core Processor (AM3+) w/ stock cooler
G.Skill Ripjaw Series 4GB DDR3 1600 x 4 sticks
EVGA GeForce GT 730 1GB GDDR5 64bit
Samsung 850 EVO 250GB 2.5-Inch --> OS and apps
WD Blue 2TB Desktop Hard Disk Drive --> photo and other storage
Seasonic S12II 520
She was content with it, but I figured she could do with a performance upgrade anyway. She uses it mainly for professional photo editing and blogging.
As always, I usually try to build with bang-for-buck in mind, but was really hard to design what with poor supply of components and jacked up prices. This is what I came up with...
MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard
AMD Ryzen 5 3600
Deepcool GAMMAXX 400 V2 --> not planning on OC, but because I heard stock cooler was loud
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB x2 DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory x 2 sticks
Samsung 980 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive x2 sticks
Gigabyte GeForce NVidia RTX 2060 6 GB OC Video Card --> was about the only decent GPU I could find in stock that wasn't over 1000k; for new paid $699 for it :-(
Corsair CXM 550 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply
Here are my questions/thoughts and wanted to know what you think.
1.) Overall does this sound solid to you?
2.) Was the RTX 2060 overkill? I know it is overpriced but so was everything else. Would it have been better to get a CPU with integrated graphics ? I was getting mixed info regarding whether you truly needed a good GPU for professional photo editing. Monitor is going to be upgraded at some point to probably a ~27" QHD or better.
3.) Was doing 2 sticks of 1TB NVME overkill? I figured since there were 2 M.2 slots and the price of a 2TB stick was so much more expensive than 2 1TB and that similar size 2.5" SSDs were not much cheaper, why not? I was also thinking this would be easy to throw a platter or SSD drive in later if needed but should be plenty of space for her needs right now.
Any other advice is welcome and thanks for your help.