From what I'm reading up here, if I'm building a machine for photography purposes (I use Alien Skin Exposure which can use up to 8 cores - so they allege - but doesn't really take advantage of high-end GPUs), I should spend my $$ on a strong, efficient power supply, a fast multi-core CPU, fast storage (for both system and data which I plan to separate), and then a decent GPU like an Nvidia 1080(?). Alien Skin says they are starting to add GPU-offloading (if that's the proper phrase) which would speed up their software.
So I'm thinking a quiet case ("quiet is in the brand name but I don't remember the model), a 750W 90% PSU, an AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, 32GB of RAM (you can never have too much RAM), M.2 boot drive, SSD data drive, and the above-mentioned 1080 GPU. I might prefer an "all-AMD" solution with a Radeon GPU simply because it seems more likely I'll not have issues if the CPU/GPU are from the same "family", so to speak. I was thinking the Ryzen 7 3800X would be more efficient but at a slight cost in speed. The 750W PS might seem overkill but I might want to add more internal drives so why not be prepared?
I'll mention that the machine I'm coming from is an HP Envy 750 with a Core i7-4690 (might be 4790), 16GB of RAM, and a Samsung 850 Pro SSD boot drive. (No M.2 available with this older Kaili2 motherboard.)
Suggestions gratefully accepted. I rarely do any video editing (and only then for a few home videos - nothing Pro-level in any manner) and I do -no- gaming of any sort. This machine will be doing photo-editing and a bit of web-surfing/eMail.
Thanks!
Barry
So I'm thinking a quiet case ("quiet is in the brand name but I don't remember the model), a 750W 90% PSU, an AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, 32GB of RAM (you can never have too much RAM), M.2 boot drive, SSD data drive, and the above-mentioned 1080 GPU. I might prefer an "all-AMD" solution with a Radeon GPU simply because it seems more likely I'll not have issues if the CPU/GPU are from the same "family", so to speak. I was thinking the Ryzen 7 3800X would be more efficient but at a slight cost in speed. The 750W PS might seem overkill but I might want to add more internal drives so why not be prepared?
I'll mention that the machine I'm coming from is an HP Envy 750 with a Core i7-4690 (might be 4790), 16GB of RAM, and a Samsung 850 Pro SSD boot drive. (No M.2 available with this older Kaili2 motherboard.)
Suggestions gratefully accepted. I rarely do any video editing (and only then for a few home videos - nothing Pro-level in any manner) and I do -no- gaming of any sort. This machine will be doing photo-editing and a bit of web-surfing/eMail.
Thanks!
Barry