I currently have a Lenovo Yoga 720 (i7, 8GB, 256GB SSD) with an external 4K monitor (LG 27UL600). I’ve been working more from home (for obvious reasons) and have recently upgraded my camera to a Sony A7Riii. Working with the 42MP files is fairly painful on the laptop, especially when doing focus stacking with macro shots. This is the main driver for a move to a desktop PC. Secondly working from home: I frequently work from home now and use Creo Parametric (3D modelling), the Lenovo struggles with that as well. Lastly, I would like to slowly get back into gaming as the kids are growing up and game themselves!
I’ve been slowly buying some parts over the last month or so and I’m fully aware of the 2 upcoming AMD events next month. I’ve settled on a Ryzen build but I’m having difficulty settling on a MB, CPU (currently Zen 2 but I’ll transfer the decision to Zen 3), cooler and GPU.
CPU wise I’m unsure how much of an impact a 12 core would make (3900X / 5900X?) versus a 8 core (3700X / 5700X?) in image editing. I currently use Lightroom and Photoshop, I’m unsure if that prefers frequency or threads. This will impact the cooler I imagine. I bought a NR200P so have been looking at the Fuma 2, NH-C14S, NH-U9S and Cryorig H7.
MB wise I flit between the MSI B550 ITX board and the Gigabyte B550 ITX board. Not really sure if my use case has much impact on this decision.
GPU I’m looking at either a 1650 Super or a 1660 Super, I really can’t see me using it for gaming too much, but I may drop in every now and again. I don’t need 4K gaming levels that’s for sure. I’m currently just using 14 day Xbox Game Pass Ultimate codes from eBay when I fancy a bit of gaming on my laptop. Currently in my list is the Gigabyte 1660 Super Gaming OC 6G. It’s a good price and has fan stop.
Bits I’ve bought are in the below PCPartPicker list. The PSU is overkill as the SF600 was OOS everywhere and the SF750 was on offer. Noise levels are important to me, so hopefully the SF750 will be less taxed and spin up even less than the SF600 would.
Any input to help my indecision would be much appreciated, this is my first PC build BTW.
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