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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: