Hello all,
My wife is a professional photographer. Her current system is simply not good enough for what she does (it was a build I made for myself 6 years ago). I want to build her a new system from scratch that will handle all the photo editing she does without much hassle. Gaming is not really a consideration for this, which is why I skimped a little on the graphics card for my current wish list.
Here are my answers to the questions on the "How To Ask For a New Build" sticky:
Approximate Purchase Date: As soon as I decide, within a week.
Budget Range: ~$1200 is my sweet spot, but I will go up to ~$1500 if necessary.
System Usage: Professional Photo Editing, virtually zero gaming.
Are You Buying A Monitor: No
Do You Need An OS? No
Preferred Website: I've always shopped at Newegg, not too worried with overpaying here or there for the convenience.
Location: Richland, WA
Parts Preference: Have historically bought Intel CPUs but those AMDs gave me pause. Stuck with Intel on my list, but open to what is best. Also been partial to Nvidia for GPUs.
Overclocking: I am not a big tinkerer when it comes to this and have always been nervous to do it so I would rather what performs best out of the box.
SLI or Crossfire: No
Any suggestions on whether this is roughly what I should be thinking would be appreciated:
Newegg Wish List.
A few comments on the reasoning for my list:
- I only have a SSD on there because she has 4 other good drives in the current PC I will be bringing over. The thinking on the 250 size is that it will have enough room for her to upload a session on to it, work on it, then move to the other drives to be archived.
- As I said above, it is my understanding that I don't need an awesome graphics card for graphic work, and we don't really care about gaming, so my consideration for a GPU was minimal. I wonder if I could get away with the chip's video card?
- She works mostly in Photoshop and Lightroom, she is really bad about closing stuff when she's not using it and will have 15-20 huge images on at a time and run actions on them and such. It is my priority that this goes as smoothly as possible for her.
My wife is a professional photographer. Her current system is simply not good enough for what she does (it was a build I made for myself 6 years ago). I want to build her a new system from scratch that will handle all the photo editing she does without much hassle. Gaming is not really a consideration for this, which is why I skimped a little on the graphics card for my current wish list.
Here are my answers to the questions on the "How To Ask For a New Build" sticky:
Approximate Purchase Date: As soon as I decide, within a week.
Budget Range: ~$1200 is my sweet spot, but I will go up to ~$1500 if necessary.
System Usage: Professional Photo Editing, virtually zero gaming.
Are You Buying A Monitor: No
Do You Need An OS? No
Preferred Website: I've always shopped at Newegg, not too worried with overpaying here or there for the convenience.
Location: Richland, WA
Parts Preference: Have historically bought Intel CPUs but those AMDs gave me pause. Stuck with Intel on my list, but open to what is best. Also been partial to Nvidia for GPUs.
Overclocking: I am not a big tinkerer when it comes to this and have always been nervous to do it so I would rather what performs best out of the box.
SLI or Crossfire: No
Any suggestions on whether this is roughly what I should be thinking would be appreciated:
Newegg Wish List.
A few comments on the reasoning for my list:
- I only have a SSD on there because she has 4 other good drives in the current PC I will be bringing over. The thinking on the 250 size is that it will have enough room for her to upload a session on to it, work on it, then move to the other drives to be archived.
- As I said above, it is my understanding that I don't need an awesome graphics card for graphic work, and we don't really care about gaming, so my consideration for a GPU was minimal. I wonder if I could get away with the chip's video card?
- She works mostly in Photoshop and Lightroom, she is really bad about closing stuff when she's not using it and will have 15-20 huge images on at a time and run actions on them and such. It is my priority that this goes as smoothly as possible for her.
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