Is this overkill for a photo editing build

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maddog-3001

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my friend, a professional photographer, wants a work-station pc, she doesn't really have a budget, (but is looking at around the price-range of a high-end) imac
I've made this using partpicker
any feedback would be great

Total: £1987
CPU Intel Core i7-4770 3.4GHz Quad-Core £233.99
Motherboard Asus H87-PRO ATX LGA1150 £87.44
Memory Corsair Vengeance 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 £234.38
Storage Samsung 840 Pro Series 256GB 2.5" SSD £177.59
Western Digital WD Black 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM £209.95
Video Card EVGA GeForce GTX 760 4GB £237.75
Wireless Network Adapter TP-Link TL-WDN4800 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 £26.96
Case Cooler Master Silencio 550 (black) ATX Mid Tower CAse
Power Supply SeaSonic 520W ATX12V / EPS12V £68.42
Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) £103.19
Monitor Dell U2713H 27.0" £494.95
Speakers Creative Labs A60 4W 2ch £49.21
 
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If its just still images the RAM could be overkill, unless she has dozens open and working on at a time

The graphics card might be wasted too , depending on which software she is using

As a pro she will want multiple hard drives for data security . Either a mirrored RAID 1 array . or use Win8 pro and storage spaces to create a similar back up solution
 
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k, but she will be working on big photo albums, each containing hundreds of photos, not sure how many she will be doing at time,
can you guys help alter this to fulfill her purposes, without being overkill
she doesn't game at all
 
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will if you doing photo editing then your most likely using Adobe Photoshop. which has been shown to run faster on AMD graphics card as it makes use off OpenGL more than NVidia Cuda. so first i would swap out the GTX 760 for a HD7870 or better AMD card. next a would pick a high rated PSU like i have already said. Some close to a 650W. next thing i would do is upgrade that motherboard to an Asus Z87-Pro just for the better connectivity (this moatherboard also has wif and bluetooth onboard so you can drop the wifi card). i would drop the 4TB HDD as your better off getting 2x 2TB HDD at £70 each (total £140 foe same storage). and if one drive fails you still have the second drive to use (i'm all about the backup). next i would drop now to 16GB 1600Mhz Memory (2x 8GB). you can alway add more later if needed. and last thing i would do is add a nice after market HSF to help keep your cpu cool and quite :)
 
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Overkill build for a photo editing porpouse.~
my sugestion.
Change i7 for an AMD fx8350 (8 cores is better for multitasking required in most editing cases)
Obviously you have to change MB aswell since 1150 does not supp amd (i believe) so a M5A97 Evo r2.0 or anything for that price range would be good.
16gb is more than enough and it still gives the option to had further in the future.
+1 on the guy that sugested a 650W+ psu, i also agree on that.
The rest looks fine, and the ram and cpu alone saves 200+
 
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how does this look

Total: £1801.38
CPU AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core £148.79
Motherboard Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0 ATX AM3+ £109.99
Memory Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 £107.97
Storage Samsung 840 Pro Series 256GB 2.5" SSD £177.59
Western Digital WD Black 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM £209.95
Video Card Gigabyte Radeon HD 7950 3GB £234.99
Wireless Network Adapter TP-Link TL-WDN4800 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 £26.96
Case Cooler Master Silencio 550 (Black) ATX Mid Tower £59.46
Power Supply SeaSonic 650W ATX12V / EPS12V £83.58
Optical Drive Pioneer BDC-207DBK Blu-Ray Reader, DVD/CD Writer £43.96
Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) £103.19
Monitor Dell U2713H 27.0" £494.95
 
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which one of these builds is better, price is not a problem, since they are so similar

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Total: £1907.85
CPU Intel Core i7-4770 3.4GHz Quad-Core £237.59
Motherboard Asus H87-PRO ATX LGA1150 £87.44
Memory Corsair Vengeance 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 £113.39
Storage Samsung 840 Series 250GB 2.5" SSD £128.97
Western Digital WD Black 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM £209.95
Video Card ATI FirePro V5900 2GB £338.46
Wireless Network Adapter TP-Link TL-WDN4800 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 £26.96
Case Fractal Design Define R3 Black Pearl ATX Mid Tower £59.98
Power Supply SeaSonic 650W ATX12V / EPS12V £83.58
Optical Drive Lite-On iHOS104-06 Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Drive £23.39
Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) £103.19
Monitor Dell U2713H 27.0" £494.95

Amd


Total: £1861.17
CPU AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core £148.79
CPU Cooler Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus 76.8 CFM Sleeve Bearing £32.99
Motherboard Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0 ATX AM3+ £101.99
Memory Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 £107.97
Storage Samsung 840 Series 250GB 2.5" SSD £128.97
Western Digital WD Black 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM £209.95
Video Card ATI FirePro V5900 2GB £338.46
Wireless Network Adapter TP-Link TL-WDN4800 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 £26.96
Case Fractal Design Define R3 Black Pearl ATX Mid Tower £59.98
Power Supply SeaSonic 650W ATX12V / EPS12V £83.58
Optical Drive Lite-On iHOS104-06 Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Drive £23.39
Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) £103.19
Monitor Dell U2713H 27.0" £494.95
 
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