Advice for new build (Professional photo editing)

leobr1989

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Approximate Purchase Date: This week

Budget Range: 1000-1500

System Usage from Most to Least Important: Professional photo editing

Are you buying a monitor: No

Parts to Upgrade: New build

Do you need to buy OS: No

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: amazon and idealo

Location: Essen, Germany

Parts Preferences: Intel CPU, avoid Samsung parts

Overclocking: No

SLI or Crossfire: No

Your Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080

Additional Comments: No RGB, as quiet as possible

And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: It's a new build, because the other PC is getting older and older...

Link: https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/Z42tLJ


Hello guys,

I'm searching for my father-in-law for his new computer. It's intended to be used for professional photo editing and of course, some internet surfing (banking, youtube etc.). It's a ZERO PERCENT gaming build!

I've picked up the following parts (see link above). What is missing is a PSU and a motherboard.

For the motherboard I thought about the MSI Z370-A Pro.
For the PSU I considered the be quiet! Pure Power 400W.

1- Are these both good choises?

2- Considering the whole built, do you see any weak points or exaggerations?
2a- Is an EVGA GTX 1060 overkill for photo editting? Or maybe too less?
2b- Should we get instead an Ryzen octa-core or will the hexa-core i7 8700 do its job fine?
2c- Any other considerations?

Thank you VERY much in advance!!!!
 
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The performance for photo editing is the CPU & SSD, the Nvidia GPU is only used for some extra features for Photoshop. Being able to make those editing quick (CPU/SSD) and going through your pictures at a fast rate without delay would be what I'd define as a good editing system.

I built a photo editing only system for a friend last year that only consist of the G4560 (2C/4T), 500gb SSD & 8gb of RAM, etc and he is still really happy with the performance but I had him put the editing software and OS on the SSD then he uses a storage drive for all the edited pics.

With that in mind I would say the SSD is probably the most important part.


What software is going to be used? This can be really helpfull to decide what to get.
 

WildCard999

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Your build is overkill for photo editing, I would get something cheaper then invest into a higher resolution monitor. Something like this would work well.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i5-8400 2.8GHz 6-Core Processor (€180.93 @ Amazon Deutschland)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG - H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler (€34.89 @ Aquatuning)
Motherboard: ASRock - H310M-HDV/M.2 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (€70.77 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Memory: Crucial - Ballistix Sport LT 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory (€133.82 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Storage: Crucial - MX500 500GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive (€91.78 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (€58.55 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Video Card: KFA2 - GeForce GTX 1050 2GB OC Video Card (€133.94 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Case: Fractal Design - Focus G (White) ATX Mid Tower Case (€43.99 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (€105.80 @ Alza)
Optical Drive: Asus - DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer (€18.48 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit (€109.93 @ Mindfactory)
Monitor: LG - 27UD58-B 27.0" 3840x2160 60Hz Monitor (€269.00 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Total: €1251.88
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-09-02 21:04 CEST+0200
 
Your build is very reasonable, and your psu and motherboard choices are ok.
Since the i7-8700 can not be overclocked, a B360 based motherboard may be cheaper.
Here are some recommendations from Puget systems for a Photoshop based system:
https://www.pugetsystems.com/recommended/Recommended-Systems-for-Adobe-Photoshop-CC-139/Hardware-Recommendations

As to ryzen, it is a bit lacking compared to the i7-8700:
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Photoshop-CC-2018-CPU-Performance-AMD-Ryzen-2-vs-Intel-8th-Gen-1136/
 

leobr1989

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Hello! It's Adobe Lightroom.
 

leobr1989

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Fine! Is B360 the same as B360m ?? I could get then the Gigabyte B360M DS3H maybe and save 40 bucks in comparison to the Z370-A Pro. I saw it has a m.2 connector and supports the 8th Generation Intel Core...
 

leobr1989

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Thanks for your reply!
Could you name same differences between the B360M and the H310M chipsets? The other colleague suggested the b360m.

UPDATE:
Just found it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_1151#Coffee_Lake_chipsets_(300_series)
To be honest, I think it would be better to get at least a B360, the H310 is too simple (USB number, PCI-e configs...)


What defines the performance of photo editing machines? More the CPU or more the GPU?
He has already a really expensive high resolution IPS monitor. But thanks anyway for mentioning this!
 

WildCard999

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The performance for photo editing is the CPU & SSD, the Nvidia GPU is only used for some extra features for Photoshop. Being able to make those editing quick (CPU/SSD) and going through your pictures at a fast rate without delay would be what I'd define as a good editing system.

I built a photo editing only system for a friend last year that only consist of the G4560 (2C/4T), 500gb SSD & 8gb of RAM, etc and he is still really happy with the performance but I had him put the editing software and OS on the SSD then he uses a storage drive for all the edited pics.

With that in mind I would say the SSD is probably the most important part.
 
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leobr1989

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That's good to hear. So I'm doing right when I advise him to get a NVMe... thank you !