Hello!
I'm after some advice regarding this build. It is my first build and the goal was to stay within a budget of £800. I am currently about £150 over budget.
I was unable to find the case I want to use on this site - it is the Cougar QBX Mini ITX Case.
This is what I have specked out so far:
PCPartPicker part list: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/zwJ9QZ
Price breakdown by merchant: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/zwJ9QZ/by_merchant/
CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 2700 3.2 GHz 8-Core Processor (£247.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI - B450I GAMING PLUS AC Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard (£123.40 @ Alza)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-2666 Memory (£210.20 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Samsung - 970 Evo 250 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive (£64.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£54.79 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB SC GAMING Video Card (£202.46 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: Corsair - VS 550 W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply.
The purpose of this build is (in order of importance):
Productivity - office based tasks, research etc (I'm currently a student)
Photo editing (recreational)
Video editing (recreational)
Very occasional gaming
My questions related to this build are:
Is the Ryzen 7 2700 overkill, would I be fine with a Ryzen 5 2600x or an Intel i5 9600k?
Is it worth getting 32gb of RAM for the price (£210) or is it better to set up with 16gb for half the cost and reconsider upgrading in a few years?
Is the power supply adequate - or should I consider upgrading it? - the reason I have chosen this for now is that the case will only allow a PSU with 14cm in length to be mounted.
Thanks for any advice or feedback you can offer me!
I'm after some advice regarding this build. It is my first build and the goal was to stay within a budget of £800. I am currently about £150 over budget.
I was unable to find the case I want to use on this site - it is the Cougar QBX Mini ITX Case.
This is what I have specked out so far:
PCPartPicker part list: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/zwJ9QZ
Price breakdown by merchant: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/zwJ9QZ/by_merchant/
CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 2700 3.2 GHz 8-Core Processor (£247.99 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: MSI - B450I GAMING PLUS AC Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard (£123.40 @ Alza)
Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-2666 Memory (£210.20 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Samsung - 970 Evo 250 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive (£64.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£54.79 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB SC GAMING Video Card (£202.46 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: Corsair - VS 550 W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply.
The purpose of this build is (in order of importance):
Productivity - office based tasks, research etc (I'm currently a student)
Photo editing (recreational)
Video editing (recreational)
Very occasional gaming
My questions related to this build are:
Is the Ryzen 7 2700 overkill, would I be fine with a Ryzen 5 2600x or an Intel i5 9600k?
Is it worth getting 32gb of RAM for the price (£210) or is it better to set up with 16gb for half the cost and reconsider upgrading in a few years?
Is the power supply adequate - or should I consider upgrading it? - the reason I have chosen this for now is that the case will only allow a PSU with 14cm in length to be mounted.
Thanks for any advice or feedback you can offer me!