Hi everyone,
Ignesco’s photo and video editing demands have slowly increased as we’ve taken on more complex projects. Our stable of iMacs and solid custom PCs have been handling these demands fine up until recently. Now that we’ve added several new team members, it’s time to think about upgrading!
I posted a potential cheap, small, low-power editing rig a while back using PCPartPicker. This was a simple but effective build, but was during the height of the crypto craze and RAM scam, meaning even a GTX 1060 was astronomically priced and 16GB of RAM was high as well.
The new build below is a similar rig, but priced much more reasonably for the same or better specs.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
| Type | Item | Price |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | Intel - Core i5-8400 2.8GHz 6-Core Processor | $178.99 @ Amazon |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte - B360M DS3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard | $68.09 @ Amazon |
| Memory | G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory | $159.99 @ Newegg |
| Storage | Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive | $140.99 @ Newegg Marketplace |
| Storage | Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive | $43.90 @ OutletPC |
| Video Card | Zotac - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB Mini Video Card | $269.99 @ Amazon |
| Case | Thermaltake - Core V21 MicroATX Mini Tower Case | $34.99 @ Newegg |
| Power Supply | EVGA - SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply | $59.99 @ B&H |
| Operating System | Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit | $95.89 @ OutletPC |
| Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts | ||
| Total (before mail-in rebates) | $1107.82 | |
| Mail-in rebates | -$55.00 | |
| Total | $1052.82 | |
| Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-06-27 17:06 EDT-0400 |