Build for causal work and photo editing

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Dear Friends,
I am in the process of a slow and deliberate build and and currently collecting components. Final build will be around Mid October/ Nov. Purpose is photoshop and movie edits and academic work. Little to no gaming.
Type: micro ATX
Overclocking: No

What I already have:
1. Jonsbo RM3 Case with both side temperd glass and three 120 mm fans one each at bottom, top and back.
2. LG 27inch 4K IPS color caliberated monitor with gSync
3. Logitech G602 Wireless mouse
4. TVSE gold keyboard
5. Samsung 750 EVO SSD 256 GB

What I need and options considered
1. PSU : must be a reliable 550w . Was looking at seasonic or corsair models. Long warranty Good quality caps. Must be semi modular or fully modular.
2. CPU: i had in mind Ryzen 1700 but waiting for 8th Gen Intel since that will mean no expense in GPU. But pricing is a factor as total CPU or if required CPU+GPU, budget not to exceed 30k.
3. mATX motherboard appropriate to the CPU. Around 8-10k.
4. 16 GB RAM to be decided after CPU finalized. 10k. Preferably 3200 DDR4.
5. HDD: 5-6 TB. May come later. I already have an external 5TB housing all my data and a backup in my office desktop.

Item 1 is what I am looking for right now. Suggestions and recommendations on reliable places to get them in Delhi are welcome. Most i am looking for is quality and reliability and power efficiency.

Appreciate your help
Thanks
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vivek g delhi said:
2. LG 27inch 4K IPS color caliberated monitor with gSync

How much did you pay for the Monitor?

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ssb1551 said:
How much did you pay for the Monitor?

38k

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Where did you purchase it from?

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ssb1551 said:
Where did you purchase it from?

Kalka ... Nehru place. Got number from Just dial

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Nice deal man!!

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ssb1551 said:
Nice deal man!!

It was some 39k on amazon

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vivek g delhi said:
1. PSU : must be a reliable 550w . Was looking at seasonic or corsair models. Long warranty Good quality caps. Must be semi modular or fully modular.

if you have the budget go for Corsair RMx .. 10 years warranty ..

Corsair RM650x PSU Review

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gta5 said:
if you have the budget go for Corsair RMx .. 10 years warranty ..

Corsair RM650x PSU Review

Thanks GTA. Looks good and at 10 years, it may outlast other components.
The 650 watt is cheaper on amazon compared to the 550w but my total power requirement after all future possible expansion including a 1060 equivalent graphics would be 475 watts. Should i go for 550 or 650? Any pointers about good dealers in Delhi are also appreciated.

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vivek g delhi said:
Thanks GTA. Looks good and at 10 years, it may outlast other components.
The 650 watt is cheaper on amazon compared to the 550w but my total power requirement after all future possible expansion including a 1060 equivalent graphics would be 475 watts. Should i go for 550 or 650? Any pointers about good dealers in Delhi are also appreciated.

on vedantcomputers .. 550X is Rs 9000 and 650X is Rs 9200 .. only 200 rs difference , go for 650 watt version

but hold on a bit about warranty before it is cleared up completely .. a retailer is saying something else to ezio16 .. check this thread

Suggestions for a Mid Tower Gaming Case and a 650W PSU

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gta5 said:
on vedantcomputers .. 550X is Rs 9000 and 650X is Rs 9200 .. only 200 rs difference , go for 650 watt version

but hold on a bit about warranty before it is cleared up completely .. a retailer is saying something else to ezio16 .. check this thread

Suggestions for a Mid Tower Gaming Case and a 650W PSU

Thanks. That is a bummer. I plan to write to corsair support and make an inquiry with them directly

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vivek g delhi said:
Waiting anxiously... MSI has announced 12 motherboards including mATX and ITX. SMC said that if they can get their hands on sone processors, they should have the first shipment around 20 oct.

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Corsair does not have high user ratings on NewEgg. Also it has sleeve bearing. Apparently FDB bearings are better. I have started looking towards
Seasonic FOCUS Plus Series which have tje fluid dynamic bearings, are fully modular and 10 yr warranty in USA.
Now to see availability, pricing etc in India.

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vivek g delhi said:
Corsair does not have high user ratings on NewEgg. Also it has sleeve bearing. Apparently FDB bearings are better. I have started looking towards
Seasonic FOCUS Plus Series which have tje fluid dynamic bearings, are fully modular and 10 yr warranty in USA.
Now to see availability, pricing etc in India.

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Review here
JonnyGURU - Seasonic Focus Plus 550W Gold

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vivek g delhi said:
Review here
JonnyGURU - Seasonic Focus Plus 550W Gold

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Thanks. Glowing review i must say. But it does not seem to be in stock anywhere in India. Shot a mail to Tirupati Enterprises but haven't heard back from them as yet.

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vivek g delhi said:
Thanks. Glowing review i must say. But it does not seem to be in stock anywhere in India. Shot a mail to Tirupati Enterprises but haven't heard back from them as yet.

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I am sorry but i should have posted these last few messgaes on my own thread. Mods please if its possible to delete/ migrate these messages onto my thread in this forum.

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Ok. Revival Time
The i7-8700 CPU has come. Asus z370g mATX mobo has been purchased and is on the way!

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vivek g delhi said:
Ok. Revival Time
The i7-8700 CPU has come. Asus z370g mATX mobo has been purchased and is on the way!

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The Motherboard came from Japan. Costed 14500. This week its been made available at Mdcomputers as well for 15500. So saved 1000 bucks there.

Bought 32GB of GSkill Trident 3200MHz 16*2 DDR4 RAM. Black Friday deal for 300 USD. Its not RGB but will do. Especially since its costing me on 20k against the 32k usual pricing.

Also bought 8TB 7200 rpm Toshiba High Reliability NAS HDD for 260 USD. Thats also a sweet deal since we get a 6TB for that price in India.

RAM and HDD are expected to arrive in Dec 3rd week

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Total Damage Till Date
37.5 k - monitor
9.5 k - Cabinet
0.7 k - Arctic Silver
25.2 k - i7-8700
14.5 k - Asus Rog Strix z370-G
20.0 k - Trident 32 GB 3200 RAM
17.0 k - Toshiba 8TB 7200 HDD

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How are you bringing these US/Japan purchases to India?Some friend/relative or some other way.

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Relative and friends

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vivek g delhi said:
Relative and friends

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Well guys seems like I saved 10k on the RAM since its back to 430$ pricing while i got it for 300$

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Nice!It really pays to have friends/relatives in US around Black Friday deals.

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Ok Guys Update Time.
Got a Corsair TX650M from Vedant (Bday gift by a dear friend) and also a 250 GB Samsung 960EVO NVME M.2 Drive
Now just waiting on my RAM and 8TB HDD to arrive.

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Total Damage Till Date
37.5 k - monitor
9.5 k - Cabinet
0.7 k - Arctic Silver
25.2 k - Intel i7-8700 CPU
14.5 k - Asus Rog Strix z370-G
20.0 k - Trident 32 GB 3200 RAM
17.0 k - Toshiba 8TB 7200 HDD
10.5 k - Samsung 960EVO 250
6.7 k - Corsair TX650M

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Here is a photograph of the build so far. There is a 120 mm fan and a Corsair TX650M in the shroud at the bottom. Then you can see the 120mm rear fan and 140mm top fan. In place are the Z370-G motherboard and the Samsung Evo Nvme drives. I am using stock intel cooler and will upgrade to a AIO 120/140 mm at later date. Towards the front, the HDD will be mounted. Cables are all routed and the HDD cables too wont be visible as they will be routed directly. A rear-top placed controller built in the cabinet controls all three fans (all are nonPWM) and so there are no visible fan cables either.
Must say its looking quite clean and am pleased with it ao far.*uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20171212/1fd2112715683a424d57ac87f998bffb.jpg

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I am toying with the idea of running a hyperVisor and then create a Win10 VM for daily work. Or is it better to run VMs within Win10. Or should I dual boot Win10 with a Linux distro.
I Linux, preferably Ubuntu 16 LTS I wish to run a Java webserver, a WordPress server and also Laravel PHP app, and a python based server. Maybe tinker with some NodeJS apps as well. I also wish to experiment with OpenStack and such. Am a doc so it's all tinkering as a hobby and timepass interest stuff. Win10 is for serious productivity work and photo editing. All booting will be via the NVME while data will be on HDD.
Any suggestions how to proceed guys

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That is good but any backup plan for this "8TB hdd".

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whitestar_999 said:
That is good but any backup plan for this "8TB hdd".

An external 5TB will house all my RAW photos. All work data and processed images on my 1TB onedrive cloud as well. The 5TB syncs with my Office Desktop HDD also.
Further the 8TB is a Cool Running High Reliability model made for NAS usage by Toshiba. Its got excellent reviews of NewEgg and Toshiba drives had some of the lowest failure rates in current BackBlaze resulta

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The thing is,it is India & especially in north indian summers,it takes full blown AC to keep temps in check.I hope you are regularly monitoring temps & SMART parameters for all your hdd using crystaldiskinfo/similar software.The 1st/fundamental rule of backup is: Any hdd can fail at any time.

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True that. I will monitor the disks. What software do you suggest?
My System wont be 24x7 and the AC will be on when I am using the system. The 8TB is specifically marketed ar runs cool and newegg reviews support that claim.
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Use Crystaldiskinfo free,it is very good & comes with various themes/background images versions(also has portable zip versions that don't need install).The creator also has another good software crystaldiskmark which is used as hdd benchmarking tool by many reputed tech sites & forums.
CrystalDiskInfo - Software - Crystal Dew World

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Thanks will use it

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