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PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3pilF
CPU: Intel Core i7-4771 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($299.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: Kingston HyperX 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($317.74 @ Amazon)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($139.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($134.99 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 660 2GB Video Card ($205.66 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic G 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($82.99 @ Mwave)
Other: CASE ($150.00)
Other: Motherboard ($150.00)
Total: $1481.36
Hey guys I'm looking to build a nice work rig for my dad.
He has 5 chrome windows with ungodly amounts of tabs, and has
bridge/ photoshop/ acrobat
MS Word/
skype/
sublime text / evernote
10 external hard-drives on his
mid 2011 27" imac with an 3.1ghz i5, 16gb ram, and the radeon mobile card, also 2560x1440 dual monitors,
It is unbearably slow for him to load pages/ do whatever, and his RAM is full 24/7. He has a 100 down, 20 up connection, so its for sure not his internet.
I know that this would be a more than adequate rig for gaming, but I have discovered that chrome windows + dual 1440p is quite intensive.
I don't know a lot about where the resources bottleneck,
but for sure 16gigs wasnt enough ram for him, and the graphics card is probably too underpowered for dual 1440p and all of the tabs. I'm not sure about cpu.
Do you guys want to recommend me any areas that I can cut back? namely in the video card and the CPU department. He does some video editing sporadically, and he uses photoshop a ton.
His CPU is around 40% load with normal use.
I'm looking for a motherboard and also not quite sure how many watts of PSU to use. thanks for helping!
CPU: Intel Core i7-4771 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($299.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: Kingston HyperX 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($317.74 @ Amazon)
Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($139.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($134.99 @ NCIX US)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 660 2GB Video Card ($205.66 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: SeaSonic G 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($82.99 @ Mwave)
Other: CASE ($150.00)
Other: Motherboard ($150.00)
Total: $1481.36
Hey guys I'm looking to build a nice work rig for my dad.
He has 5 chrome windows with ungodly amounts of tabs, and has
bridge/ photoshop/ acrobat
MS Word/
skype/
sublime text / evernote
10 external hard-drives on his
mid 2011 27" imac with an 3.1ghz i5, 16gb ram, and the radeon mobile card, also 2560x1440 dual monitors,
It is unbearably slow for him to load pages/ do whatever, and his RAM is full 24/7. He has a 100 down, 20 up connection, so its for sure not his internet.
I know that this would be a more than adequate rig for gaming, but I have discovered that chrome windows + dual 1440p is quite intensive.
I don't know a lot about where the resources bottleneck,
but for sure 16gigs wasnt enough ram for him, and the graphics card is probably too underpowered for dual 1440p and all of the tabs. I'm not sure about cpu.
Do you guys want to recommend me any areas that I can cut back? namely in the video card and the CPU department. He does some video editing sporadically, and he uses photoshop a ton.
His CPU is around 40% load with normal use.
I'm looking for a motherboard and also not quite sure how many watts of PSU to use. thanks for helping!
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