Need Help With My First Build

YUE

I'm still in the research phase of my first build, I would love to get better suggestions on my build since I'm not confident it would be a good put together. I'm mainly using my pc for art projects and video editing but also competitive gaming like Overwatch and Valorant. 
https://www.microcenter.com/site/content/custom-pc-builder.aspx?load=03de3dd9-32d0-47ed-b4e1-bfed00f91114

TS_EmileC

Hello @YUE. If you are going to be editing content, you will want to increase the RAM to 32GB. Do you plan to edit 4K content as well?

JS_MC

Hi @YUE! I'd recommend a bit of a swap or switch on the SSD's you've selected. I'd recommend the M.2 drive be the larger capacity drive, as M.2 typically offers much higher speeds than the 2.5" SSD.

What kind of budget did you have in mind for this build?

Also what monitor will you be pairing with it?

YUE

TS_EmileC said:

Hello @YUE. If you are going to be editing content, you will want to increase the RAM to 32GB. Do you plan to edit 4K content as well?

Thank you for your input, I don't think I'm planning to go so far as 4K for now, but I do work with large files so I think a RAM swap would be wise.

YUE

LandShark said:

Hi @YUE! I'd recommend a bit of a swap or switch on the SSD's you've selected. I'd recommend the M.2 drive be the larger capacity drive, as M.2 typically offers much higher speeds than the 2.5" SSD.

What kind of budget did you have in mind for this build?

Also what monitor will you be pairing with it?

Thank you for your help, I like your suggestion and ill look into it more. My budget is around the $1000-$1200 mark and I'm not keeping the monitor in mind yet, since I'm kinda more focused on getting the research for this tower done first. 

JS_MC

Here are a few of the changes I would make for this build.

https://www.microcenter.com/site/content/custom-pc-builder.aspx?load=c9b24026-41e3-495f-919e-92b76d4d3028

Please let me know if you have any questions!

YUE

https://community.microcenter.com/discussion/comment/27224#Comment_27224

I do have two questions, won't removing the SSD make the boot up slower? or am I mixing things up, honestly my first time researching this. And secondly, isn't installing windows 10 free with the install media?

JS_MC

If you're able to budget for the additional cost of the 2.5" SSD then I would recommend keeping it, however, you still do have an M.2 SSD, which you could use at your boot drive. It would be much faster than the 2.5" and exceedingly faster than the HDD that you have. However, the HDD offers much less cost for the amount of data that it can hold!

I'm not sure I understand your second question so forgive me if this isn't the correct answer. I don't know what you mean by install media.

The Windows 10 licenses do have a fee. You can avoid the additional cost of purchasing a USB version if you already have a USB drive that you could copy windows, and then install the OS to your computer that way.

Here's the DVD version, which includes a serial key and DVD. Microsoft Windows 10 Home 64-bit OEM DVD - English

and here's the USB version Microsoft Microsoft Windows 10 Home 32/64-Bit - USB

Please let me know if I misunderstood your question!

YUE

https://community.microcenter.com/discussion/comment/27490#Comment_27490

Thank you so much, I feel set with what I want for my build now, I think ill get a little more up saved for the SSD and hopefully, I won't need to upgrade anything in it for a while.

JS_MC

Happy to help! Please do let us know if you have any other questions!