After 10 years I'm upgrading my PC - this will be my first self-built PC. In the past I've replaced hard drives, graphics cards, memory, OS and drivers on occasion, so I think I can handle the build. To plan this build, I used the following webpages and others:
https://community.adobe.com/
https://www.logicalincrements.com/articles/videoediting
https://turbofuture.com/computers/Build-Photo-Editing-PC
Before ordering hardware and getting started, I'd like the community's input if anything obvious is missing, poorly matched, overkill, or incompatible to start with, with a willingness to upgrade in the future. Details below:
Goals and Use:
- Budget: Around $1000 or less
- Needs: Very upgradable to last several years, support for three monitors (none 4K at this point), 10bit monitor support would be nice but not a deal breaker.
- Use: small home based internet business
- Apps: Premiere Pro, Photoshop and LightRoom and Dreamweaver mostly, but also InDesign, Acrobat and other CC apps. Also use Google Earth a fair amount and multiple browser open at once.
- Type of work: 1080p video for foreseeable future, but may do 4K in the future. Large still RAW files and photo merging in Ps and/or Lr. Plan to do more time lapse work in the future.
Proposed New Hardware:
- CPU: AMD RYZEN 7 2700X (with included cooler) (8-Core 4.1 GHz max, Socket AM4) ($150)
- GPU: GTX 1660 OC 6G (6GB GDDR5) ($230)
- Motherboard: Asus Prime X570-P AM4 (USB 3.1, ATX Form Factor) ($150)
- RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 3000MHz ($175)
- Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 650 G+ ($90)
- CPU Cooler: included with CPU
- Case: Fractal Design Define R5 Black Silent ATX Midtower ($130)
Total = $925
Existing Hardware to Use From Old System:
- SSD program drive: Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SATA III - (can upgrade to faster 970 EVO later)
- Data drive/s: RAID 0 with dual 1TB HDD (Seagate, 7200 rpm, 64MB Cache, SATA 6.0Gb/s) - Can upgrade to SSD RAID 0 later
- SSD Scratch drive: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SATA III
- DVD-RW: Samsung SH-S183L (Serial ATA, 18x/18x/12x, 2 MB buffer) - Should continue to work for now.
- UPS: CyberPower 1500PFCLCD UPS
- Monitors: NEC PA241W (main), plus 2 cheap secondary monitors.
- Windows 10
Old System (Includes Existing Hardware Above):
- CPU: Intel Core i5 750 quad core CPU (2.66GHz LGA 1156 95W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80605I5750)
- GPU: AMD FirePro V4900 (480 Cores, 24 TMUS, 10 bit color, 1024 MB, GDDR5, 128 bit)
- Motherboard: ASUS P7P55D-E motherboard
- RAM: 16 GB DDR3 memory
- CPU Cooler: ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2 92mm Fluid Dynamic CPU Cooler
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