Kawasaki ZedHed
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So first off the bat I appreciate there is more I could do to optimize this. Potentially a I screwed up and put more memory at a slower speed, when I would have been better off putting less memory at a faster speed. (My bad)
Anyway I’m stuck on a cruise ship in the Irish Sea and I can’t wait to get home and have this baby delivered. I’m planning to use this mostly for gaming however I am a professional photographer so it will be an editing machine as well. (Which was the main reason I got more ram instead of faster ram)
I think this is a fairly solid build for a starting PC, with plenty of room to expand and upgrade later... I’m mostly looking for advice for bits I should consider upgrading first, either because they let the system down in some way. (Put gaming in mind first)
Anyway I’m stuck on a cruise ship in the Irish Sea and I can’t wait to get home and have this baby delivered. I’m planning to use this mostly for gaming however I am a professional photographer so it will be an editing machine as well. (Which was the main reason I got more ram instead of faster ram)
I think this is a fairly solid build for a starting PC, with plenty of room to expand and upgrade later... I’m mostly looking for advice for bits I should consider upgrading first, either because they let the system down in some way. (Put gaming in mind first)
| Processor (CPU) | Intel® Core™ i7 Eight Core Processor i7-9700K (3.6GHz) 12MB Cache |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte Z390 AORUS Master: ATX, LG1151, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs Wi-Fi AC - RGB Ready |
| Memory (RAM) | 32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3000MHz (2 x 16GB) |
| Graphics Card | 8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2080 SUPER - HDMI, 3x DP GeForce - RTX VR Ready! |
| 1st Storage Drive | 2TB Samsung 860 QVO 2.5" SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 550MB/sR | 520MB/sW) |
| 1st M.2 SSD Drive | 250GB SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3500MB/R, 2300MB/W) |
| DVD/BLU-RAY Drive | NOT REQUIRED |
| Power Supply | CORSAIR 650W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET |
| Power Cable | 1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead) |
| Processor Cooling | CoolerMaster MasterLiquid Lite 240 High Performance Liquid Cooler |
| Thermal Paste | ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND |
| LED Lighting | 2x 50cm RGB LED Strip |
| Extra Case Fans | 2x 120mm Black Case Fan (configured to extract from rear/roof) |
| Sound Card | ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD) |
| Wireless/Wired Networking | 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (Wi-Fi NOT INCLUDED) |
| USB/Thunderbolt Options | 2 PORT (1 x TYPE A, 1 x TYPE C) USB 3.1 PCI-E CARD + STANDARD USB PORTS |