New PC Spec (or is this overkill)

[ChrisHeathcote]

Hi everyone, some of you may remember my dilemma over either a laptop or a Macbook. In the end i decided that as I had a calibrated monitor and although a laptop would be portable, it would mean that most of my editing would end up being done on the screen in the lounge, so I am staying with a desktop (also easier to upgrade in the future) also having cleared out my man cave (office), sticking with a desktop gives me an excuse to shut myself away in peace. . I think I have decided on the following spec, but as its been a while since I've done any PC mods I wanted to make sure I'd not missed anything.

Case/PSU
Fractal Define R4 Mid Tower
Corsair CX 750W Bronze 80+

MB/Processor
ASUS X79 Deluxe (skt 2011)
Intel i7 4820K
Corsair H60 Liquid Cooler

RAM
16GB Mushkin Silverline 1600mhz
Asus NVidia GT610 1GB

Hard Drives
Samsung EVO 840 250gb SSD (OS&Programs)
2 x 2TB Seagate SSHD (for storage configured in RAID 1 for protection, I also backup on an external drive and to the cloud)

My existing PC will be donating my Dual layer DVD Drive, Memory Card Reader and possibly a 512gb Seagate hard drive to be used as a scratch disk. Its purpose in life will be running Lighrtoom 5, Photoshop CC and MS Office. So is there anything else I am missing or could be substituted. Costed up this is about £1100. Thats about my limit, however I want a system that is quick and reliable and will last for a few years to come. Thanks you in advance for your guidance

Chris

 

[JYC]

Unless you're a pro dealing with millions of images then I would save yourself a lot of money and get a 4770K and a cheaper motherboard.

As you're not using quad channel memory or loads of GFX cards then you are paying a lot more foe the extra memory banks and PCI-E lanes without benefiting from them.

You know lightroom doesn't use your graphics card but Photoshop does for some things. If you are doing serious photoshop work then I would spend on a decent graphics card, or just go without as the 4770K integrated graphics are probably just as good if not better

 

[ChrisHeathcote]

Thanks for that JYC, I'd carried on looking and think I'm goint to go for a Z87 -PRO and either the i7 4770 or an i5 4670K and drop the graphics card for now as I don't do any video editing and what I do in PS is limited to levels, sharpening and other basic masking etc. Nothing too hard core