Hello,
I am going to be building my first PC in a couple of days so I am making sure that I have made good choices on choosing the parts to my PC. I want to play heavy titles at 1440p around 55-60 fps on high/ultra and I want a PC that can do photo editing and content creation (still in high school). All advice is greatly appreciated, feel free to give your opinion!
Thank you in advanced for your help.
Parts list: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/qXx2wP
You'll do fine on that rig. I would personally grab another HDD, because content creation is not nice to HDD space, some of the videos I've produced are rendered to about 1GB, but god help the files I had to hold on to for it, all of the video I have for just one video came to around 40-50GB, cause 1080p someshiz. Maybe even a larger or separate SSD, so that you have a fast place to put files you are working on. Same with photos, RAW is not nice to HDD space, at all.
The RAM might be overdone, but then again, your choice, never seen a reason for 1866, beyond serious tweaking, and enthusiast builds.
I don't ever recommend someone to build an extremely expensive and complicated build for their first build. Mainly because the first build is something that has the highest chance of mess ups and potential errors that cause irreparable damage that can cost a lot. Someone I know tried to build a really expensive build out of his own pocket and ran out of money, now he as a couple thousand of dollars sitting around collecting dust, and another spent almost 4K on his build, and requires others to fix it because he has no clue how to. Both are around the same age as you (highschool). But if you think you are up for it, then by all means do it.
I don't see much reason to get the Dominator Platinum sticks when you can spend much less on a Kingston Fury Black or White Kit. They are quite nice but if you must have them then do so.
http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/part/kingston-memory-hx318c10fbk216
http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/part/kingston-memory-hx318c10fwk216
Also are all the fans going to be for push pull on the H100i GTX? You really wont benefit very much since its a pretty thin radiator and it will just create more pressure and noise.
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Leave out a pair of fans and bump up the ssd to a bigger one. 250gb + ones arent that much more expensive. & yeah kingston fury ram will be just as good and a hell of a lot cheaper.
Or go for slower RAM and get more.
I put together a build for you. Better SSD, cheaper/just as good RAM. Also, a BEAST of a PSU (same one i have). You don't need all those fans. i have the H440. the stock case fans are silent. Also, you don't need a WD Black drive for storage. Blue is perfect. Also go rid of the NZXT grid. you don't need that. the case fans are silent, and you can run the cpu cooler fans via the CPU headers.
This build is the same price (well, $35 more lol) but it bumps the 980 up to a 980 Ti, while also doubling the SSD and HDD space. 1 HDD for games, 1 HDD for your photo/video content creation.