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Something involving video production, ideally editing. I've always been interested and dabbled before but never went into it in too much detail. You know I've been desperate for a career change for years but nothing really appealed enough to kick me into action. Just came to me a few months ago, I've done a bit of reading in what is available in terms of work and study, my plan right now is: - Get badass PC (done). - Start making short films and edits in my spare time (begins today!) - Enrol in a night class (enrolled for August already). - If I take to it and I'm this motivated by the end of the year, I'll apply for the full-time 2 year TV production course which covers everything - direction, editing, production, sound production, etc. Giving me the best base to find a career at the end of it. Scary stuff, I might get to the end of the year and decide it's nothing more than a hobby but that's my aim right now. I'm deeply, deeply unhappy with my career.

So, I finally have a new PC. Original budget was £700 and I saw a few video editing builds I wanted to emulate, the top-end being about £2,000 so that was my aim - get as close to a £2,000 PC for as close to a £700 budget as possible, meet somewhere in the middle. My absolute upper limit was £1,400. CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X with Wraith Prism RGB LED Cooler £270 GFX: PNY GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6Gb XLR8 Gaming Overclocked Edition £250 (NOTE: This is above the recommendations for the £2,000 build) Motherboard: MSI X470 Gaming Plus ATX £107 RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32Gb (2x 16Gb) DDR4 2666MHz C16 XMP 2.0 £131 Storage 1: Samsung MZ-V7S1T0BW 970 EVO Plus 1Tb Solid State Drive £212 (NOTE: This was from the $5,000+ build total overkill) Storage 2: WD 4Tb Desktop HD £89 Case: Phanteks DBK £63 Power Supply: Seasonic SSR-850fx Focus Plus Gold 850 (80+ Gold, ATX 12v) £95 Monitor 1: AOC 21.5" £65 Monitor 2: AOC 21.5" £65 (NOTE: Really limited by space I could have went for like a 24" and an 18" but I'd rather have two decent sized monitors for what I want to do) Speakers: Logitech Z213 £27 Mouse: Easterntime Tech X-08 wireless £14 Keyboard: Logitech K120 for Business £8 (NOTE: I want to upgrade this badly but holy shit the costs were rising) Extra Fans: There's like 3 extra RGB Corsair fans in there but I forget the exact model, call it £20 Extra Wires: Needed to replace my ethernet cables so invested in longer, plus needed adaptors for the monitors, spent like an extra £7 Desk: Hemnes Bureau £230 (NOTE: My budget for this was £70 but this beauty is perfect, exact to the millimetre dimensions to fit the space I have and the build I wanted so it needed bought) Total Cost: £1,650 Evaluation: I went super over budget here, but all things considered, the difference in quality between most things in the £1,400-£3,000 range is negligible compared to what I got, the GFX card is the main thing for what I need and I went above recommendations on that and above recommendations but minorly above budget on other bits and pieces. I straight forgot about the desk, monitors, etc in my original budget so really it should have been closer to £900 to begin with. I feel I've got fantastic value for money for an initial overpayment on what I desired to spend. Pictures:

Computer: Case: Fractal Design Define C CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge Quad-Core 3.4GHz CPU Cooler: Be Quiet Dark Rock Pro 3 Motherboard: ASRock Z75 Pro3 Graphics Card: EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 FTW3 ULTRA GAMING RAM: 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 of something PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 550 G3 System Drive: 120GB SSD Storage Drives : WD 8TB RED 3.5", 1TB from old laptop 2.5", 2TB 3.5" Game Drive: Samsung SSD 860 EVO 250GB 2.5" Mouse: Logitech G700 had to replace my 5 year old one with a new one off ebay for $160... Keyboard: Logitech G710 Plus Mechanical USB Gaming Keyboard Monitor: Monoprice 30in IPS LED Backlit LCD Panel WQXGA 2560x1600

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