I've built a handful of budget gaming systems, but now that my girlfriend's $2000 macbook pro crapped out after a few years she's willing to go the desktop PC route. She's a graphic designer and I don't know the first thing about PS and Illustrator and their hardware needs, so I'd be very grateful for anyone to review my little understanding of this field:
Because of the price of programs needed, we can only spare around $500 with no monitor (obviously we want take steps to make it future-proof, like choosing a socket type that will be relevant in a few years for upgrading.)
- She'll only be working with images, (mostly logo design) and will be using CS5 and Illustrator. It is my understanding that because there isn't a need for 3d rendering, I can skimp on the GPU. I'm planning on just using on board video. Is this correct?
- I game. I only need 4gb of ram. It is my understanding that working with multiple big image files can require a lot of ram. Should I consider no less than 16gb?
- We will obviously upgrade when she has more money, (just want a system that can do basic PS and Illustrator smoothly for now,) so I should be fine as long as I go the lga 1155 route, right? thinking about the i5 3570-k 3.4GHz.
Any advise or general tips for a build of this nature would be greatly appreciated. A parts list would be above and beyond.
Because of the price of programs needed, we can only spare around $500 with no monitor (obviously we want take steps to make it future-proof, like choosing a socket type that will be relevant in a few years for upgrading.)
- She'll only be working with images, (mostly logo design) and will be using CS5 and Illustrator. It is my understanding that because there isn't a need for 3d rendering, I can skimp on the GPU. I'm planning on just using on board video. Is this correct?
- I game. I only need 4gb of ram. It is my understanding that working with multiple big image files can require a lot of ram. Should I consider no less than 16gb?
- We will obviously upgrade when she has more money, (just want a system that can do basic PS and Illustrator smoothly for now,) so I should be fine as long as I go the lga 1155 route, right? thinking about the i5 3570-k 3.4GHz.
Any advise or general tips for a build of this nature would be greatly appreciated. A parts list would be above and beyond.
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