Hello
I'm looking to upgrade my aging laptop (thinkpad T400, P8400 w 2GB ram) with a desktop build.
Main usage for my PC is light photo & movie edit (capture NX-D, picasa, movie maker), browsing, some gaming (but as i'm not heavily into it, i adapt my gaming to the PC, e.g. currently i play simcity 4...)
I've come up with a basic build at around 300 USD, based on G3258 / 4GB ram / 1TB HDD / CX430M / 2nd hand GPU like 7770 or 550Ti
My dilemna is whether I should add 4 more GB of ram (as i think it may benefit the RAW editing, and multi tasking - i dont use adobe, but use freeware provided by Nikon), or add a cheap 128GB SSD (i could manage Silicon Power S60 120 GB, but not a Crucial / Samsung)
It seems the SSD helps a lot on initial booting and application start up, which is honestly not my main pain point even today, thus i'm wondering (even if its rather cheap today) do i really need to spend on the SSD (and for that matter the additional 4GB of RAM) considering my build is really budget oriented.
Thx
I'm looking to upgrade my aging laptop (thinkpad T400, P8400 w 2GB ram) with a desktop build.
Main usage for my PC is light photo & movie edit (capture NX-D, picasa, movie maker), browsing, some gaming (but as i'm not heavily into it, i adapt my gaming to the PC, e.g. currently i play simcity 4...)
I've come up with a basic build at around 300 USD, based on G3258 / 4GB ram / 1TB HDD / CX430M / 2nd hand GPU like 7770 or 550Ti
My dilemna is whether I should add 4 more GB of ram (as i think it may benefit the RAW editing, and multi tasking - i dont use adobe, but use freeware provided by Nikon), or add a cheap 128GB SSD (i could manage Silicon Power S60 120 GB, but not a Crucial / Samsung)
It seems the SSD helps a lot on initial booting and application start up, which is honestly not my main pain point even today, thus i'm wondering (even if its rather cheap today) do i really need to spend on the SSD (and for that matter the additional 4GB of RAM) considering my build is really budget oriented.
Thx
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