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Hello guys, this is my first post. I really need your expertise and opinions regarding this one. I'm going to build my first computer, purely on Adobe Photoshop Cs6 and Coreldrawx7 applications only. Below is the following options:

FIRST OPTION:
1. Core i5-4460 3.2Ghz 4th Gen
Haswell Refresh
2. Asus H81M-D 4th Gen
3. 1pc. 8GB TEAM DARK DDR3 1600
4. Marshall MAL3500SA-T72 500GB
32MB Sata 6Gbps
5. ZOTAC GTX 750 2GB GDDR5
(ZT-70708-10M
6. Samsung 24x DVD-RW Sata
7. CVS 2812E PC CASE W/ 650W PSU
8. AOC E970SWN 18.5" LED Monitor

SECOND OPTION:
1. Core i7-4790 3.6Ghz 4th Gen
Haswell Refresh
2. Asus H81M-D 4th Gen
3. 1pc. 8GB TEAM DARK DDR3 1600
4. Marshall MAL3500SA-T72 500GB
32MB Sata 6Gbps
5. Samsung 24x DVD-RW Sata
6. CVS 2812E PC CASE W/ 650W PSU
7. AOC 18.5" LED Monitor

As you notice the first option is Core i5 with 2gb Gpu and the second option is core i7 but no dedicated gpu both are 4th gen. So guys which is which better of the two given options and why?
 
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Darkbreeze
Yes, the Intel Skylake socket 1151 CPUs have better integrated graphics, but Broadwell, if available in your area, has WAY better Iris Pro graphics. Honestly though, considering it's probably not available to you, I'd highly recommend just doing something like this. You'll have to find the parts on sites that are available to you, but anything along these lines would work well for what you need.

The GTX 750 TI offers capability far beyond what any of the integrated graphics can offer from either Intel or AMD, supports CUDA and will do all you need. You might need to change a few things if some of the parts are not available through vendors in the Philippines, but most of them should be as I selected brands known to be widely...
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If you were timing your Photoshop tasks, you could measure the difference, which I expect would be about 10%. I seriously doubt that you would otherwise notice the difference, though. You didn't mention gaming previously. If you are gaming, you'll want that video card with the initial build, as most games are quite dependent on it. I'm not a gaming expert, though, and would defer to darkbreeze for his opinion on that. It sounds like the i5 with the video card will be best for you.
 
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If you're going to be gaming, I'd go with the i5 and at least a GTX 960 or R9 280x. Anything less, well, some people use them, but my suggestion is your gaming potential is going to be pretty limited on newer titles. If your idea of gaming is Pogo or some kind of puzzle game, the integrated graphics or a low end card like the GTX 750 is fine. If you want to play GTA V, Halflife 4, Witcher 3, Doom and similar newer titles, anything less than the 960 or 280x is going to reduce you to medium or lower settings at 1080p.

Not too sure about that H81M-D. The H81M-D Plus is a good board, but I'm seeing no reputable reviews on the base model, and have no experience with that particular model as it's not apparently available in the US that I see. I've certainly not had any encounters with it before which means it's probably a rather low end or regionally available model. That generally raises alarms in the back of my mind.

Is there a website you are planning to order from or are you buying through a local shop? It would be helpful to be able to see what is actually available to you.
 
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I'll buy at local shop.

BTW my brother send me this link from souq.

KINGSTON 120GB SSD here's the link

http://uae.souq.com/ae-en/kingston-digital-120-gb-ssd-now-v300-sata-3-solid-state-drive-with-adapter-black-sv300s37a-120g-7042290/i/

He wants to buy it for me, for upcoming comp. build. Any thoughts guys?
 
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Just one. Avoid Kingston SSDs. Stick with Crucial, IBM, Samsung, some of the Sandisk, some of the OCZ. Kingston has had too many questionable practices in the past swapping out controllers and using cheap internal chips. Even a review for a particular Kingston drive may not be accurate as it's internals may have changed since the time of the review. They are generally NOT strong performers either. BUT, it's probably better for the OS drive than any mechanical drive though, so if it's cheap enough it might be an option. I'd avoid them though as a good brand like Samsung or Crucial can usually be had for fairly close to the price of a Kingston drive.
 
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Thanks Darkbreeze, because of your comment I check the user review regarding this brand of ssd. And you are right too many unsatisfied/negative feedback. You really a life saver.... Thanks bro.

My brother order this one for me...

uae.souq.com/ae-en/samsung-850-evo-250gb-2-5-inch-sata-internal-ssd-mz-75e250z-7971233/i/#Reviews
 
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You can optimize the SSD. It doesn't use defragmenter, it uses TRIM, but should be present in the same utility as defragmenter. Be sure to install Samsung Magician first as it has many useful features including RAPID mode. You can google RAPID mode for an explanation of that. What OS version are you planning to run?
 
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RAPID works fine in Win7. It also works fine in 10 after upgrading, if you already had it installed in 7, but it won't enable for a clean install in 10, which is what is recommended is doing a clean install of 10 after the upgrade. Future versions of Samsung Magician are supposed to correct this though.
 
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Thanks for the info. Darkbreeze, I was checking online to lessen the price and I stumbled the sites saying AMD is good also for photoshop. I was intrigue by it specially thier 8 cores processor but truthfully speaking I haven't used Amd machines before.


Note.

This 3rd week of November to assemble my computer, so I have plenty of time to shop. It would better to lessen the price but the performance is still satisfactory for my needs (photoshop cs6/coreldraw x7)
 
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I have an FX-8320. You do NOT want an AMD system. Current AMD FX chips are already more than three years old. Other AMD chips have no more than four cores but the IPC, instructions per clock, is MUCH lower on AMD processors regardless of the application or instructions, in most cases. Stick with Intel. I have an AMD FX-8320@4.5Ghz and will moving to Intel as soon as possible. I only went with that platform because I was a bit strapped at the time my last Intel system took a dump and got an amazing deal on the FX chip and motherboard. Otherwise, no way I would have went with AMD.

It's not like the glory days when AMD could compete. They can't, regardless what fanboys might say or handpicked synthetic benchmarks might show. If you go with AMD, you'll be getting something that's already a 3 year old platform and quickly becoming obsolete.
 
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Darkbreeze, just bought and assembled my rig yesterday, 2gb gpu card, intel i7 4790, 8gb ram, asus mobo, ssd as system drive. I was really surprised when it comes to performance, btw I noticed that there was sata 6g and sata 3g in mobo. I plug the ssd drive to sata 6g and plug the hdd and dvdrw to sata 3g. Is this correct?
 
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Then yes, I would use the SATA III headers for the primary OS drive and an additional drive on the second header, then use the SATA II headers for the optical drive and any remaining drives. I'd put the OS drive on SATA 0, another drive on 1, if you have another drive put it on 2 and put the optical drive on 3. If your headers start with 1 instead of zero just start with one instead and end with the optical on 4. It's not essential that it be that way, just makes it easier on the system and remembering which drive is where.
 
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You always want to be connected to the fastest possible circuit, even if it can't fully take advantage of it. At least that way it will be inclined to always operate at the maximum speed the drive is capable of. I would connect your HDD to the SATA 0 or 1 header and your optical drive to the 1 or 2 header if those are the only drives you have. Plus, secondary controllers like the SATA II controller on that board are usually not as reliable as the primary controller, so the secondary (SATA II) headers should only be used if there are no primary controller headers left to use.
 
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