Can i get some advice on this spec

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Cinephile

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I'm upgrading from a ryzen 5 3rd gen system and will be using it for a combination of video editing and gaming (while streaming).

I would love some thoughts to this setup, any and all replies welcome.

[THE EDIT: Apologies first post and it was shared direct from the quote page, my budget is no more than 3.5k for the tower and I'll be getting a 4k monitor from amazon once spec is finalised my budget for that will be 400 max].

The Setup:

Case
CORSAIR iCUE 5000X RGB MID TOWER ATX CASE - WHITE
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Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16 Core CPU (4.5GHz-5.7GHz/80MB CACHE/AM5)
Motherboard
ASUS® TUF GAMING B650-PLUS WIFI (AM5, DDR5, PCIe 4.0, Wi-Fi 6)
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR5 4800MHz (2 x 16GB) KIT
Graphics Card
16GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 4070 Ti SUPER - HDMI, DP, LHR
Graphics Card Support Bracket
NONE (BRACKET INCLUDED AS STANDARD ON 4070 Ti / RX 7700 XT AND ABOVE)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
2TB SAMSUNG 980 PRO M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 7000MB/R, 5000MB/W)
1st Storage Drive
8TB Samsung 870 QVO 2.5" SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (up to 560MB/sR | 530MB/sW)
Power Supply
CORSAIR 1000W RMx SERIES™ - MODULAR 80 PLUS GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1.5 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead, 1.0mm Core)
Processor Cooling
CORSAIR H100x RGB ELITE HIGH PERFORMANCE CPU COOLER
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
Extra Case Fans
5 x Corsair ICUE LINK QX120 RGB PWM Fan + Controller Kit
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Card
ONBOARD 2.5Gbe LAN PORT
USB/Thunderbolt Options
2 PORT (2 x TYPE A) USB 3.0 PCI-E CARD + STANDARD USB PORTS
Operating System
Windows 11 Professional 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Windows Recovery Media
Windows 10/11 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Unlimited Downloads from Online Account
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft 365® (Operating System Required)
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Browser
Google Chrome™
Warranty
3 Year Gold Warranty (2 Year Collect & Return, 2 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
TIMED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND - MON-FRI (BEFORE 2PM)
Build Time
FAST TRACK 3 WORKING DAY DISPATCH

Price: £0.00 including VAT and Delivery

Unique URL to re-configure: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/amd-am5-pc/QcM7bPjNU0/
 
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TonyCarter

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Cinephile said:
I did as it asked and copied it...

Man this is all too confusing lol
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The config link will let us go into your config to adjust as necessary.

Your post shows the text from your config, but does not have the hyperlink to it...which, if you clicked the ‘copy to clipboard’ button at the bottom of your config page, would have copied everything.
 
C

Cinephile

Member
TonyCarter said:
The config link will let us go into your config to adjust as necessary.

Your post shows the text from your config, but does not have the hyperlink to it...which, if you clicked the ‘copy to clipboard’ button at the bottom of your config page, would have copied everything.
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Well that's sorted with my last edit then.

I hate being the newb at anything lol I didn't think I was that old 😂😂😂
 
Scott

Scott

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Cinephile said:
Well that's sorted with my last edit then.

I hate being the newb at anything lol I didn't think I was that old 😂😂😂
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The guides were there to help and step by step to make them nice and simple. That's why they were posted, just need to give them a look over and everything is covered.

With your build, the budget is fantastic and you can have anything you wish. The glaring stand out error for me is the monitor/budget. £400 for a 4k monitor is fine, but it's not going to be a particularly good gaming monitor.

£400 will get you a good 1440p gaming monitor with good refresh, depth & colour, etc. For the 4k alternative you're closer to £1k. With that being said you could possibly have everything for the £3.9k total.

With that sort of budget I would be looking at an ultrawide monitor. For the streaming while gaming I would be looking for a cheap 1080p monitor off to the side.

Need to get your thoughts on what you actually want from the entire monitor layout and what your reasoning is so that we can nail down the most suitable spec.
 
Scott

Scott

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Additionally, what is the priority use of the system. Is it predominantly geared towards gaming or towards the video editing/production?
 
C

Cinephile

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Scott said:
Additionally, what is the priority use of the system. Is it predominantly geared towards gaming or towards the video editing/production?
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Priority is video recording editing and streaming.

Gaming is not the Priority amd I wanted a 4k monitor because I was under the impression it was required.

Thanks for any and all help.
 
Scott

Scott

Behold The Ford Mondeo
Moderator
Below is aimed at high end video production. The other uses fall inside the level of the below anyway so are easily covered. You could opt for the 7700 CPU to save £200 but at this budget I think the 7950X is a fair shout, it'll certainly help when the load falls off of the GPU onto the CPU and give you the best possible turnaround of any project renders.

Storage and RAM more suitably built around the use case. Not sure on the required 8TB of fast storage but I've kept it and split it across 2 drives (one really fast, one SSD typical). The middle 1TB drive is to use as a cache for viewing live projects with ease in case of memory over-spill. Be sure to configure the software with this in mind.

Additionally, you're spending a lot on warranty & delivery additions. I've kept these in as per your preference.

Case
CORSAIR iCUE 5000X RGB MID TOWER ATX CASE - WHITE
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16 Core CPU (4.5GHz-5.7GHz/80MB CACHE/AM5)
Motherboard
GIGABYTE X670 AORUS ELITE AX (AM5, DDR5, PCIe 4.0, Wi-Fi 6E)
Memory (RAM)
64GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR5 6000MHz (2 x 32GB) KIT
Graphics Card
16GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 4070 Ti SUPER - HDMI, DP, LHR
Graphics Card Support Bracket
NONE (BRACKET INCLUDED AS STANDARD ON 4070 Ti / RX 7700 XT AND ABOVE)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
512GB SOLIDIGM P44 PRO GEN 4 M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 7000MB/sR, 4700MB/sW)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
1TB SOLIDIGM P44 PRO GEN 4 M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 7000MB/sR, 6500MB/sW)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
4TB CORSAIR MP600 PRO NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD (up to 7000 MB/R, 6850 MB/W)
1st Storage Drive
4TB Samsung 870 QVO 2.5" SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (up to 560MB/sR | 530MB/sW)
Power Supply
CORSAIR 1200W RMx SHIFT SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1.5 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead, 1.0mm Core)
Processor Cooling
CORSAIR iCUE H115i ELITE CAPELLIX XT RGB High Performance CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Extra Case Fans
3 x Corsair ICUE LINK QX120 RGB PWM Fan + Controller Kit
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Card
ONBOARD 2.5Gbe LAN PORT
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Windows 11 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Windows Recovery Media
Windows 10/11 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Unlimited Downloads from Online Account
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft 365® (Operating System Required)
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Browser
Google Chrome™
Warranty
3 Year Gold Warranty (2 Year Collect & Return, 2 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
TIMED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND - MON-FRI (BEFORE 2PM)
Build Time
FAST TRACK 3 WORKING DAY DISPATCH
Price: £3,455.00 including VAT and Delivery
Unique URL to re-configure: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/amd-am5-pc/7H!muqWpB9/
 
C

Cinephile

Member
Scott said:
Below is aimed at high end video production. The other uses fall inside the level of the below anyway so are easily covered. You could opt for the 7700 CPU to save £200 but at this budget I think the 7950X is a fair shout, it'll certainly help when the load falls off of the GPU onto the CPU and give you the best possible turnaround of any project renders.

Storage and RAM more suitably built around the use case. Not sure on the required 8TB of fast storage but I've kept it and split it across 2 drives (one really fast, one SSD typical). The middle 1TB drive is to use as a cache for viewing live projects with ease in case of memory over-spill. Be sure to configure the software with this in mind.

Additionally, you're spending a lot on warranty & delivery additions. I've kept these in as per your preference.

Case
CORSAIR iCUE 5000X RGB MID TOWER ATX CASE - WHITE
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16 Core CPU (4.5GHz-5.7GHz/80MB CACHE/AM5)
Motherboard
GIGABYTE X670 AORUS ELITE AX (AM5, DDR5, PCIe 4.0, Wi-Fi 6E)
Memory (RAM)
64GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR5 6000MHz (2 x 32GB) KIT
Graphics Card
16GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 4070 Ti SUPER - HDMI, DP, LHR
Graphics Card Support Bracket
NONE (BRACKET INCLUDED AS STANDARD ON 4070 Ti / RX 7700 XT AND ABOVE)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
512GB SOLIDIGM P44 PRO GEN 4 M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 7000MB/sR, 4700MB/sW)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
1TB SOLIDIGM P44 PRO GEN 4 M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 7000MB/sR, 6500MB/sW)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
4TB CORSAIR MP600 PRO NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD (up to 7000 MB/R, 6850 MB/W)
1st Storage Drive
4TB Samsung 870 QVO 2.5" SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (up to 560MB/sR | 530MB/sW)
Power Supply
CORSAIR 1200W RMx SHIFT SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1.5 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead, 1.0mm Core)
Processor Cooling
CORSAIR iCUE H115i ELITE CAPELLIX XT RGB High Performance CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Extra Case Fans
3 x Corsair ICUE LINK QX120 RGB PWM Fan + Controller Kit
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Card
ONBOARD 2.5Gbe LAN PORT
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Windows 11 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Windows Recovery Media
Windows 10/11 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Unlimited Downloads from Online Account
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft 365® (Operating System Required)
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Browser
Google Chrome™
Warranty
3 Year Gold Warranty (2 Year Collect & Return, 2 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
TIMED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND - MON-FRI (BEFORE 2PM)
Build Time
FAST TRACK 3 WORKING DAY DISPATCH
Price: £3,455.00 including VAT and Delivery
Unique URL to re-configure: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/amd-am5-pc/7H!muqWpB9/
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Much appreciated.

Is this a viable 4k monitor if I stretch the 400 a bit.

Title as listed on Amazon.

Samsung Odyssey G7 LS28BG700EPXXU 28" 4K UHD Smart Gaming monitor with Speakers - HDMI 2.1, 144 Hz, 1ms, Full Smart Platform, 3840x2160, HDR400, USB Hub, Displayport, Freesync Premium Pro​

 
Scott

Scott

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It's a reasonable monitor but it's not ideal for either of your uses unfortunately. As I understand it, it's not a true HDR monitor (being HDR400 and not 1000). It's not going to be perfectly colour accurate for the production work either, so it's kind of middling in both uses.

There are people on the forum better placed to give monitor advice for sure, but there's definitely going to be compromise in place with 4k and £400-£500 being the budget limit. 4k is very expensive when you want the bells, whistles and productivity.

I believe the below ProArt display is very good for colour accuracy and would be excellent for the video editing:

Have a little look in the monitors area of the forum. Post up in there and the more seasoned monitor gurus will keep you right:

Monitors & Peripherals

Sales advice on Monitors & Peripherals
www.pcspecialist.co.uk www.pcspecialist.co.uk
 
C

Cinephile

Member
Scott said:
It's a reasonable monitor but it's not ideal for either of your uses unfortunately. As I understand it, it's not a true HDR monitor (being HDR400 and not 1000). It's not going to be perfectly colour accurate for the production work either, so it's kind of middling in both uses.

There are people on the forum better placed to give monitor advice for sure, but there's definitely going to be compromise in place with 4k and £400-£500 being the budget limit. 4k is very expensive when you want the bells, whistles and productivity.

I believe the below ProArt display is very good for colour accuracy and would be excellent for the video editing:

Have a little look in the monitors area of the forum. Post up in there and the more seasoned monitor gurus will keep you right:

Monitors & Peripherals

Sales advice on Monitors & Peripherals
www.pcspecialist.co.uk www.pcspecialist.co.uk
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Thanks again 💚
 
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