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[Woodzo]

In your experienced opinions, is this rig worth the money? I’ve got roughly £2000 to spend and want something decent to game and edit video on.

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[Why_Me]

In your experienced opinions, is this rig worth the money? I’ve got roughly £2000 to spend and want something decent to game and edit video on.

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Not a bad deal other than the 5070 only has 12GB of VRAM.

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: *Intel Core Ultra 7 265K 3.9 GHz 20-Core Processor (£268.97 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: *ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III Pro 360 77 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (£71.98 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: *Gigabyte Z890 GAMING X WIFI7 ATX LGA1851 Motherboard (£190.42 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: *Patriot Viper Venom 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR5-6400 CL32 Memory (£171.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: *MSI SPATIUM M480 PRO 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive (£104.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: *MSI SHADOW 3X OC GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB Video Card (£729.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: *Montech AIR 903 BASE ATX Mid Tower Case (£48.94 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: *Montech CENTURY II 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (£85.47 @ Scan.co.uk)
Total: £1672.75
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[OMG_Studio]

Same agree, looks good. But change GPU to some Ti version with more VRAM to have better "future proof" machine.

 

[Oliver Sin]

In your experienced opinions, is this rig worth the money? I’ve got roughly £2000 to spend and want something decent to game and edit video on.

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If your budget is around £2000, you can definitely put together a rig that’ll handle both gaming and video editing really well. A few things to focus on:

• CPU & GPU balance: A Ryzen 7 7800X3D or Intel i7-14700K paired with an RTX 4070 Ti Super / 4080 gives you excellent gaming performance at 1440p/4K and plenty of power for editing.
• RAM: 32GB DDR5 (6000MHz or higher) is the sweet spot.
• Storage: A fast 1TB NVMe SSD for OS/games, plus a 2TB SSD or HDD for media files.
• PSU & cooling: Go with a quality 750W+ PSU and a solid cooler (good air or AIO).
• Monitor: If you don’t already have one, a 144Hz+ monitor with solid color accuracy will help with editing as well.

For reference, I also have a Dell Latitude 5530 with 32GB RAM and a 1TB SSD — not exactly a gaming laptop, but I’ve played College Brawl on it and it runs smoothly. That shows how far even mid-range hardware can go if optimized properly.