Opinions on this Desktop

IrishIrish

Hi All,

Looking at getting a new desktop mainly for video editing, live streaming and maybe as a bit of a media center.

I came across this on Ebay and wanted to get some opinions on if people thought it was good value for money or if they can suggest a better alternative. http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Intel-Core-I7-4790-240gb-SSD-8gb-1600Mhz-GTX-1070-8gb-Dragon-Gaming-PC-/142076791097?hash=item21146fc939:g:i4gAAOSw3xJXpQG1

Alanstrainor

I wouldn't buy that machine off ebay anyway. If you wanted to go that route you'd be better off building it yourself. There's not much to it, and an absolute tonne of resources online about how to do it.

I would even say that 8GB of RAM is not enough if you're going to be editing video. I would want 16GB. It's a desktop, RAM should be a good bit cheaper. Hell my 8 year old desktop had 8GB of RAM from new!

IrishIrish

Alanstrainor wrote: »

I wouldn't buy that machine off ebay anyway. If you wanted to go that route you'd be better off building it yourself. There's not much to it, and an absolute tonne of resources online about how to do it.

I would even say that 8GB of RAM is not enough if you're going to be editing video. I would want 16GB. It's a desktop, RAM should be a good bit cheaper. Hell my 8 year old desktop had 8GB of RAM from new!

I've been looking in to the option of building it myself (as you can see from a couple of my recent posts ) but I just don't have the time at the moment to do the required research for which components to purchase. I've tried searching for previous threads that might match my requirements in the hope I could just copy the components they used but all the threads are 1 year old or more so most likely outdated already.

At this stage I think just paying the extra money for a pre-built machine will have to be the way I go.

Digital Solitude

Make a thread with your needs and budget and we'll give you a part list sure?

*You had one for €800 a few weeks ago didn't you?

Alanstrainor

Maybe check out: http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/

I've heard lots of good things about their laptops, and I'd rather buy from them over the ebay seller you listed. You should be able to spec up a fine machine for a 1000 budget.

(Also worth noting about the ebay link, that includes no OS, so you would need to consider that when buying too).

IrishIrish

Hi All,

Below is my latest potential purchase, just looking to see if anyone has any suggestions on what to downgrade or upgrade? The Desktop will mainly be used for Livestreaming, Video Editing and running financial trading software with some light gaming.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Case: InWIN 703 MID TOWER GAMING CASE (BLACK/RED)
Processor: (CPU)Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-6700k (4.0GHz) 8MB Cache
Motherboard: ASUS® Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA: ATX, LG1151, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs, RGB Lighting
Memory (RAM): 16GB HyperX SAVAGE DDR4 2666MHz (2 x 8GB Kit)
Graphics Card: 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 960 - DVI, HDMI, 3 x DP (Special!!)
1st Hard Disk: 2TB SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 64MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive: 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply: CORSAIR 550W VS SERIES™ VS-550 POWER SUPPLY
Power Cable: 1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling: CoolerMaster Hyper 212X (120mm) Fan CPU Cooler (€36)
Thermal Paste: ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (€12)
Sound Card: ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking: WIRELESS 802.11 AC1900 1,300Mbps/5GHz, 600Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD (€61)
USB Options: MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System: NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Operating System Language: United Kingdom - English Language
Office Software: NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus: NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Browser: Microsoft® Edge (Windows 10 Only)
Monitor: ASUS VE247H 24" LED DISPLAY (€136)
2nd Monitor: ASUS VE247H 24" LED DISPLAY (€136)
Warranty: 3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery: 2 - 3 DAY DELIVERY TO REPUBLIC OF IRELAND (€24)
Build Time: Standard Build - Approximately 6 to 8 working days
QTY 1
€1,278.05 ex VAT
€1,572.00 inc VAT and Delivery

Digital Solitude

Steep. See if dropping GPu to a RX460 will save you much, it's a great wee GPU

Skerries

would he not be better off dropping the CPU and ram and going for a better GPU?

IrishIrish

I've read online that i7 and at least 16gb ram is best for live streaming which is why I've gone for that.