Need Advice For PC Build

I really need help building a pc from digital storm. I have no clue at picking out what type of hardware I need so I come here in need of advice of the experts.


Budget:
[$2000-$2500 - I won't need a monitor, keyboard mouse or speakers. I'm currently using my Sony Bravia 4K TV as my monitor, and use my Hauppauge Gaming PVR capture device to watch TV while I am online, surfing the web.]

Expectations:
[Would like this new PC to have a fast boot up time, help with encoding video faster, and a really good graphics card for future gaming. I also need the pc to handle multitasks. I've noticed with this current PC I am on when I try to do multitask, especially video encoding I almost max out my ram]

Usage:
[I basically use my current pc for live streaming, video editing, and encoding. Other than that listening to music and surfing the web. I'm new to PC Gaming, I've mainly done all of my gaming via consoles, so I'd want the right hardware to provide the best results in PC Gaming ]

Special Needs: I have a fairly large Music and Movie collection so my secondary storage unit would have to be fairly large. I do have some Western Digital My Cloud Devices I am storing those files on. However, I need space for when I capture live video and encode it. I don't want to store that stuff on the SSD no more than I have to.

There are a couple of the PCs I'm looking on the website.

1.)"Lumos" with this configuration but it's a bit over my budget and if its possible to get it down a bit towards my budget with different parts I'd probably go with it. It is my preferred choice.

Configuration # 1775818

2.) "VANQUISH 7" - This is another one I looked at that I feel good about.

Configuration # 2103479

Thanks in Advance,
JT

Edited by JTF1972 - 30 Nov 2018 at 10:54am

No, not yet, I planned on calling DS today to make a purchase. This is what I have configured. It's slightly over my budget but if I can get it lower I'd greatly appreciate it with anyone's advice.

Lumos - Configuration # 2131910

Hey JTF1972...Welcome to the forums. I noticed your config has a solid RTX 2080 video card, but the 600 watt power supply won’t be enough to power that card. You’ll need to bump up to the 700 watt as the RTX 2080 requires minimum 650 watts. You could fall back to the RTX 2070 card and stay with the 600 watt PSU if the RTX 2070 would still meet your video encoding needs, and save some money. Some of the savings could help get you a little roomier 500 TB Samsung Evo M2 drive or bump up the motherboard choice and still reduce your total build price a bit.   

Config # 2187775 comes in at $2682 with all your original Lumos choices but dropping to RTX 2070 video card and increasing m2 storage to a 500 TB Samsung Evo. Total is reduced $267 from your orig Lumos config, and you have the 32 TB RAM I suspect you will likely need for video encoding tasks.

If you go with a top level Vanquish 7 build, you would have to ask DS about bumping up the RAM to 32 TB.....

Sure! Everyone says that RTX 2070 is kinda the sweet spot of the RTX cards and can run just about everything so you wouldn’t lose much to switch that, and a bigger C drive is a big plus. Let us know what you decide!   

Cretae,

Thanks for your input and advice as well!

A while back I had a custom pc built for me that had an SSD as my OS drive. If i remember correctly it only had a 250GB SSD drive on it. I loved the fact of the fast boot up time so I definitely want to have that.

Me purchasing the Vanquish, you're saying I will need 32GB of RAM No Matter what?

I have terrible knowledge of what would be the best option to go with buying RAM. I have watched people build custom pcs online installing things like motherboards, RAM, HD/SSD. It looks very simple, I just afraid I'd find a way to fry one lol.

On that custom build, HockeyBuck provided I'll have to take a look at it and see what I should do. Any savings I can come up within a build is good for me and my budget

Edited by JTF1972 - 04 Jan 2019 at 7:58am

Like bprat22 said. You could stick with the 8 GB that comes with your rig and see how it goes for you. It's enough for gaming right now. IMHO, you might be dissatisfied with the ability of that configuration to multi-task to your demands and to render encoding as quickly as you'd like. But those are surely subjective perceptions left up to you. You didn't specify how much RAM you're coming from, and the overall speed boost you're going to get from the whole package might be enough difference to please you for awhile.

Video rendering and multi-tasking are RAM dependent functions. At some point, it's my guess you'll want to raise that 8GB starter set. The advice is to get 8GB sticks to replace the 4GB sticks that come with your computer. Although it's possible under the best of circumstances to mix capacities, there are more potential problems than it's worth. You could get just two 8 GB sticks at first (for 16GB total) and see how that works for you. Pulling RAM and installing new is just about the easiest thing you can do. As you've seen on the demos, they just click into the slots, and that's about it. You want to be sure your rig is unplugged, and you've touched something metal on your case so you're grounded. Then check in the BIOS to make sure it sees the total you put in to make sure they're seated properly.

You want DDR4, but the speed rating isn't that critical. Price goes up as speed goes up. DS uses 3000 MHz RAM as their standard set. If you get some now, and some later, you'll want to get the very same kind for best results and no hassles.

You could also opt for 16 GB on the Lumos build and save another $221 on that one.

Hope that's clear.    

Yeh it looks like 32GB of RAM is in your future for sure. All the best.