Build my own or buy this:

culpin · Jan 16, 2014

Budget is around 1300 (no monitor or OS needed). I want my PC to EASILY handle Photoshop, Light Room, and eventually video editing. Not much, if any, gaming will take place but the option would be nice. Every build I come up with his $100-200 more than this Dell pre-built, and seems to be missing something crucial (SSD, less than 16gb RAM, etc) Should I just buy this PC and call it a day?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883155865

tiny voices · Jan 16, 2014

Well that dell will not be playing games but it will easily chew through all the other stuff you want it to.

Praise_Gaben · Jan 16, 2014

Here you go:

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2Ce1j

Better motherboard, you can overclock cpu, way better videocard, larger SSD, and probably a better psu etc. etc.

rickysharma · Jan 16, 2014

It can play games but not totally maxed out but it can do all that easily. I like that deal actually. It's a damn beast for the price!! My PC is 3rd of this and it's decent with games. And it you end up building it'll be a lol more expensive

kraken501 · Jan 16, 2014

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2Ce3B this will be MUCH better

tiny voices · Jan 16, 2014

Praise_Gaben :

That RAM is all wrong. It is 3 sticks which will have to be manually put into flex mode and be a pain. Get 2 or 4 sticks.

tiny voices · Jan 16, 2014

kraken501 :

This has no GPU and will not play games at all.

kraken501 · Jan 16, 2014

tiny voices :

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2CehI

tiny voices · Jan 16, 2014

kraken501 :

More issues:

k series CPU with non-overclocking low end motherboard.
WAY overkill PSU. 500w is more than enough for that computer.

kraken501 · Jan 16, 2014

tiny voices :

kraken501 :

More issues:

k series CPU with non-overclocking low end motherboard.
WAY overkill PSU. 500w is more than enough for that computer.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2CemN

culpin · Jan 16, 2014

Think I'm going to go with the Dell. Seems like there's not a big gain in building my own and may just lead to headaches down the road. Like I said, gaming is very secondary and I just need a PC that will power through photo editing without frustration.

Thanks for everyone's help!

tiny voices · Jan 16, 2014

Always glad to be able to help!

rickysharma · Jan 16, 2014

YAY! good choice!

culpin · Jan 16, 2014

I'm actually debating building this now; http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2Crsc .... thoughts?

Switched out PSU to 550w, changed CPU cooler, and internal HD to get cost down to $1215

rickysharma · Jan 16, 2014

not bad either

tiny voices · Jan 17, 2014

culpin :

This has problems.

You cannot overclock that CPU so drop the CPU cooler and change to an H87 motherboard.

Other than that, it should be better than the Dell except for having half the RAM. It will be about 5x as powerful for gaming though.

culpin · Jan 17, 2014

Thanks, have no intentions of overclocking so I did as you said. Also boosted ram to 32gb, final cost ended up being about $1425. Now I just gotta pull the trigger, lol

culpin · Jan 17, 2014

Would anyone be able to give some insight on how "bad" the on-board graphics would be if I were to omit the dedicated GPU? I see this as something I could live without, as long as it does not hinder everyday tasks and photoshop performance.

tiny voices · Jan 18, 2014

They will be more than adequate for anything but gaming. Any modern game you can forget about though even on lowest settings.

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