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Looking to build a new desktop workstation. I'm not a big gamer, the only games I'd be interested in playing could probably be run on a stock PC found at best buy in 2005. I'd love a mac pro, but the price is just unrealistic. I'm looking to build a powerhouse kind of like that, but on a more reasonable scale.
I'm in grad school, so I write a lot of papers while doing a lot of research. I'm also an amateur photographer in my spare time, so I do a lot of high resolution image editing. I also just really love me a good high def crisp display. So here's what I want:
Desktop PC with the ability to do some semi-heavy image editing. Would like to power 3 displays. One should be high def/4k, the other two need not be 4k as I'll typically use them for word processing/research. Prefer to run one GPU as I don't know anything about running dual, but if it's easy then that's an option too.
For budget - I'd like to keep it under $1000. Going to buy in two segments over a period of two weeks (gonna put half on one paycheck, half on another).
I know this is very vague, so any help is greatly appreciated. I don't mind intel vs AMD, geforce vs radeon, etc. I honestly have no preferences - I just want a really powerful, super fast PC. I hate having to sit around and wait for programs to open, web tabs to open, images to load, etc. (I have a 1G fiber optic connection so I know the image loading isn't due to my network speed, too....).
Edit: Don't need any displays or other peripherals. Obviously the cheaper the better, but I want something that'll last me a good 2-3 years while maintaining excellent performance.
Edit #2: If there's a decent, affordable pre-built computer that meets the standards, I'm all ears for that one too. I just have a hard time discerning which pre-builts can run 3 monitors.
I'm in grad school, so I write a lot of papers while doing a lot of research. I'm also an amateur photographer in my spare time, so I do a lot of high resolution image editing. I also just really love me a good high def crisp display. So here's what I want:
Desktop PC with the ability to do some semi-heavy image editing. Would like to power 3 displays. One should be high def/4k, the other two need not be 4k as I'll typically use them for word processing/research. Prefer to run one GPU as I don't know anything about running dual, but if it's easy then that's an option too.
For budget - I'd like to keep it under $1000. Going to buy in two segments over a period of two weeks (gonna put half on one paycheck, half on another).
I know this is very vague, so any help is greatly appreciated. I don't mind intel vs AMD, geforce vs radeon, etc. I honestly have no preferences - I just want a really powerful, super fast PC. I hate having to sit around and wait for programs to open, web tabs to open, images to load, etc. (I have a 1G fiber optic connection so I know the image loading isn't due to my network speed, too....).
Edit: Don't need any displays or other peripherals. Obviously the cheaper the better, but I want something that'll last me a good 2-3 years while maintaining excellent performance.
Edit #2: If there's a decent, affordable pre-built computer that meets the standards, I'm all ears for that one too. I just have a hard time discerning which pre-builts can run 3 monitors.
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