I'm new to building PCs... recommend me a few pieces of hardware please

Budget?

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Core i7-4790K

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Agreed, but if you aren't overclocking, the 4790 is just fine.

Go to PCpartspicker.com and they will match parts for you very easily. They also have some sample builds from other users.

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You are going to need more storage than that if you are a heavy PS and LR user. Buy a smaller SSD and a 3-4TB HD

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I've got some other HDs for storage.

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Core i7-4790K

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Anyone read his list of parts he already has?


OP, give me a budget on the parts you haven't purchased yet. And more details on what you'll use it for, as much detail as possible.

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I probably went overkill on the SSD

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Nah. SSD is currently the single biggest performance improvement you can make.

If you already have large hard drives, just get a 128GB SSD for the Operating System

It's a 480 GB SSD. If I could send it back for a 128 GB I would.

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I am considering returning the motherboard as this pretty much limits me to the more expensive DDR4 RAM and the i7-5820k processor (currently at $389).

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I would highly recommend you do this and just grab a Asus Z97-E or something around that price, or an H97 board if you're definitely not going to overclock.

Quite a few of the benefits of X99 would be wasted for your use, such as the additional PCIe 3.0 lanes and quad-channel memory. And aside from costs associated with that chipset, you're also sacrificing some performance in most of Lightroom and Photoshop's functions, believe it or not. The 4790K's cores are a good bit faster than the 5820K -- part of the compromise to fit 6 cores with hyperthreading on the die. Even for the lightroom and photoshop tasks that are multithreaded, they'll only use 4-5 threads effectively, at best (i.e., there are hardly any measurable performance benefits of 6-core CPUs for the most common tasks in those programs, and the same applies to quite a few of Adobe and Autodesk's other workstation applications as well). The 4790 also has higher per-core performance, but not as much as the 4790K, which has a default clock speed of 4.0GHz with 4.4GHz Turbo (vs. 3.6GHz/4.0 Turbo for the 4790). So, there's at least some benefit to the 4790K even if you don't overclock. Basically 10% more performance for 10% more money, so either one is a decent choice.

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Maybe I just have to eat some of that cost and consider that to be over budget?

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I would, or do what SG said and downsize the SSD (EDIT: Just saw that you said it's not returnable). Regardless, you should absolutely return the X99 board unless you're building a rendering workstation for frequent and intensive use.

If you want to save even more money, why not just forgo the i7 and get an i5-4690K or 4690? Same single-threaded performance as the regular 4790, just no hyperthreading. You lose some of the added benefits in tasks that actually do effectively take advantage of more than 4 threads, but realistically, we're talking about a matter of a couple of seconds in processing time for a huge photo. Unless you're editing large batches of super-duper high-res photos at a time, it's really not an issue whatsoever.

I'd say grab a Z97 or H97 board, an i5-4790, and this RAM -- you'll save close to $300 and probably won't notice a bit of a difference.

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Agreed, but if you aren't overclocking, the 4790 is just fine.

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Is the i7-4790 a good future proofing option to last 8-10 yrs?

Have you checked out PC Parts Picker? It's a pretty good resource for anyone building a PC these days.

It's like you didn't read anything I said. If you get that Xeon instead of the i5, you are stupid.


And there is no such thing as future proofing a computer.