kmanus

Well,  since you're pondering your build, I'll hijack my own thread a bit and share what I have laid out.  Which I'm sure is way total overkill but if I'm going to build, I'm going to build.

CPU: i7-6700k

Cooler: Thermalright TRU Spirit 140 POWER

Mobo: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 32gb

Drives: Samsung 850 EVO 250gb M.2 SSD + Seagate 2TB Hybrid

Graphics: EVGA GeForce GTX970 4GB Superclocked ACX

PSU: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold

Case: NZXT Phantom 410 in Gunmetal

Per pcpartpicker that puts me just a hair under $1,500 and I figure I can shop around a bit on a few things.

Photoshop.  No plans for videos at the moment.  Was just trying to future proof for more than 2 weeks or so :-D

In comparing the two (6700 vs 5820) I was verging towards more cores over speed.  I'm a multitasker so I often have many things running which is probably where I'm losing my current machine which, without being in front of it, is a core 2 duo at ~3 GHz I think.

I'm building a new computer for editing and such and I was originally leaning towards the i7-6700k but then got sidetracked with a Xeon e5 or i7-5820k for the greater cores.  Budget is negotiable but trying to stay under $450 or so (processor only).