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p.10 #11 · p.10 #11 · If you were creating a great photo computer, what would it be? | |
rico wrote:
My comments follow. First, go with a full tower for ease of access, parts clearance, more placement options for peripheral cooling, and better airflow in general. That config has a significant thermal component. Second, a single fin-stack Noctua is ample: I have the NH-U14S and it barely hits 65°C (ambient plus 40°C) with 10 cores running torture test Prime95 in Turbo mode. That with fan speed set to 40%! Your Coffee Lake is 20W cooler. NH-12S would be quite sufficient and easier to fit. Third, as mentioned, an earlier generation of i7 may give much better bang-per-buck, especially if used. Fourth, I don't think the fancy DIMMs are worth a bent nickel. For most workloads, CPU cache size is the performance determinant. One reason that Xeon rules, but that's another conversation. Economy performance (but top quality) memory can allow you to increase the total to 2x or 4x for various purposes. Kaby Lake allows DDR3 which is dirt-cheap on the used market....Show more →
I would agree with this. For sure an i7-7700K system will cost you a lot less than the 8700K and give 95% the performance for photo editing. Of course, if you have other workloads that can use 6 cores...
Similarly, the premium gaming graphics card is nice for squeezing out the last few FPS for games, but for non-gaming applications a stock GTX 1070 will cost a fair bit less and perform just as fast.
On the topic of the RAM, at least over here the price difference between "basic" DDR4 2133 or 2400 and low latency DDR-3000/3200 is so low (about 15%) that you might as well buy the faster version. The really big premiums are only applicable to the bleeding edge speeds.
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