Stewart Mayberry
New Member
Hi all this is my first post in here, any advice or comments you have on this post would help me a lot.
First of I’m an amateur photographer using my computer for processing my pictures, dumping large amounts of RAW images onto the computer for processing. The main software I’m running is Adobe Photoshop cc, Lightroom cc, light office work using Microsoft software and web browsing. Considering having a look at Adobe Premier Pro in the next year or so.
I’m wanting to upgrade my CPU, Motherboard, RAM and SSD drive I will be running windows 10 on. The system I have now is coming on six years old so I’m looking for hardware that will be futureproof, still be good in five to six year’s time.
I built the system I’m using now so I know a bit about computers but this build will be taking me to the next level.
The parts I am looking at are.
CPU - Intel i7-6850 (Broadwell-E) 3.6GHz six cores, the reason I’m looking at this CPU is that it has 40 PCIe lanes and with multithreading and huge overclocking capability and overclocking is something I want to try. This is why I'm posting here
Motherboard - Asus Rampage V Edition 10 Intel x99, as I’m planning to overclock and push the system hard this board really stuck out, I’m running 8 hard drives at the moment and this can handle 12 and has 4 PCIe 3.0 x16 slots not that I’m planning to SLI at the moment but future proof is what the goal is. M.2 slot that I will be running operating system of. Not to mention the cool LEDs lol I love it.
RAM - Corsair Vengeance LED 32GB DDR4 3000MHz, this is something that I will be upgrading to at least 64GBs later on but for now 32GBs should do me. Photoshop is a very RAM hungry program so you can never have too much. I have a 250GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD that I will be using solely at a scratch disk when running Photoshop.
Hard Drive – Operating System - Samsung Pro 256GB M.2 PCI-e NVMe solid state drive. I’m looking at this because its spec shows it’s a lot faster than SATA. Read speed 2150-2650MB/s Write speed 1260-1550MB/s. From what I have read these figures don’t mean much unless you’re working with large files. IOPS are the figures that you should be looking at and this has 300k/100k read write. If I have this wrong, please let me know.
Water Cooling - As I am planning on overclocking hard, water cooling is a must, but this is something I have never had experience with. The way I am planning to do it is custom loop. Raystorm Waterblock, quad radiator not sure what make is good, XSPC D5 Phanton270 Reservoir/pump combo. Later on adding motherboard and graphics cards to the loop. If anyone has experience in water cooling or post a link to any good tutorials would be a great help.
The rest of my Rig I have.
3 Monitors, 1 Philips 40” 4k and 2 Philips 24” 1080p
Case – Corsair Obsidian 900D
Gigabyte Nvidia 980 Windforce – used to power Philips 40” 4k monitor
Sapphire Raiden HD 6790 – used to power 2 Philips 24” 1080p monitors. I use these for web browsing or Microsoft word. Nothing Demanding.
Hauppauge Capture Card – PCI-e HDMI
Power supply is a Lepa 850 watt, but the case is capable of housing two power supplies is I need more power.
Hard drives - 4 Western Digital green 2TB, will be setting these up as a RAID 0 configuration, or other option is to but a Western Digital Black drive just for stuff I’m working on and use the green drives for stuff I rarely use and backup drives.
I love playing about with computers so I’m really excited about this build, if anyone has any comments about the parts I’m looking at please let me know. This will be me most expensive build I have attempted yet so I don’t want to jump in not knowing what to expect. A step by step guide to overclocking is a must for me. I have been reading up about it here and there but a guide for the Asus Rampage V Edition 10 Intel x99 board is what I need. Can’t find one anywhere.
Water cooling Tutorials would be helpful as well, what are the best brands and configurations.
Hope someone out there can help me. And many thanks for taking time to read this post.
The pics i posted are is what im using now am AMD FX 8 core. Starting to feel its age.
First of I’m an amateur photographer using my computer for processing my pictures, dumping large amounts of RAW images onto the computer for processing. The main software I’m running is Adobe Photoshop cc, Lightroom cc, light office work using Microsoft software and web browsing. Considering having a look at Adobe Premier Pro in the next year or so.
I’m wanting to upgrade my CPU, Motherboard, RAM and SSD drive I will be running windows 10 on. The system I have now is coming on six years old so I’m looking for hardware that will be futureproof, still be good in five to six year’s time.
I built the system I’m using now so I know a bit about computers but this build will be taking me to the next level.
The parts I am looking at are.
CPU - Intel i7-6850 (Broadwell-E) 3.6GHz six cores, the reason I’m looking at this CPU is that it has 40 PCIe lanes and with multithreading and huge overclocking capability and overclocking is something I want to try. This is why I'm posting here
Motherboard - Asus Rampage V Edition 10 Intel x99, as I’m planning to overclock and push the system hard this board really stuck out, I’m running 8 hard drives at the moment and this can handle 12 and has 4 PCIe 3.0 x16 slots not that I’m planning to SLI at the moment but future proof is what the goal is. M.2 slot that I will be running operating system of. Not to mention the cool LEDs lol I love it.
RAM - Corsair Vengeance LED 32GB DDR4 3000MHz, this is something that I will be upgrading to at least 64GBs later on but for now 32GBs should do me. Photoshop is a very RAM hungry program so you can never have too much. I have a 250GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD that I will be using solely at a scratch disk when running Photoshop.
Hard Drive – Operating System - Samsung Pro 256GB M.2 PCI-e NVMe solid state drive. I’m looking at this because its spec shows it’s a lot faster than SATA. Read speed 2150-2650MB/s Write speed 1260-1550MB/s. From what I have read these figures don’t mean much unless you’re working with large files. IOPS are the figures that you should be looking at and this has 300k/100k read write. If I have this wrong, please let me know.
Water Cooling - As I am planning on overclocking hard, water cooling is a must, but this is something I have never had experience with. The way I am planning to do it is custom loop. Raystorm Waterblock, quad radiator not sure what make is good, XSPC D5 Phanton270 Reservoir/pump combo. Later on adding motherboard and graphics cards to the loop. If anyone has experience in water cooling or post a link to any good tutorials would be a great help.
The rest of my Rig I have.
3 Monitors, 1 Philips 40” 4k and 2 Philips 24” 1080p
Case – Corsair Obsidian 900D
Gigabyte Nvidia 980 Windforce – used to power Philips 40” 4k monitor
Sapphire Raiden HD 6790 – used to power 2 Philips 24” 1080p monitors. I use these for web browsing or Microsoft word. Nothing Demanding.
Hauppauge Capture Card – PCI-e HDMI
Power supply is a Lepa 850 watt, but the case is capable of housing two power supplies is I need more power.
Hard drives - 4 Western Digital green 2TB, will be setting these up as a RAID 0 configuration, or other option is to but a Western Digital Black drive just for stuff I’m working on and use the green drives for stuff I rarely use and backup drives.
I love playing about with computers so I’m really excited about this build, if anyone has any comments about the parts I’m looking at please let me know. This will be me most expensive build I have attempted yet so I don’t want to jump in not knowing what to expect. A step by step guide to overclocking is a must for me. I have been reading up about it here and there but a guide for the Asus Rampage V Edition 10 Intel x99 board is what I need. Can’t find one anywhere.
Water cooling Tutorials would be helpful as well, what are the best brands and configurations.
Hope someone out there can help me. And many thanks for taking time to read this post.
The pics i posted are is what im using now am AMD FX 8 core. Starting to feel its age.
