I do not do gaming...

[Matthew1978]

If I do not do any gaming, but stay in the realm of Illustrator and photoshop, what type of computer should I build? What is good enough and what is too much?

[Daniel Z.]

You usually don’t need a very good PC for Photoshop or Illustator. Something with a 4 or 6 core Ryzen 3000/Coffee Lake Refresh and 8-16GB RAM with a 570 or 580 is more than enough. You could go cheaper with the video card too or get a CPU with integrated graphics

[Akira Shimazu]

bruh im using i5-8250U which is equal to i3 desktop and works fine. and aso runnign 8ggigs single channel.

 

without Case

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2400G 3.6 GHz Quad-Core OEM/Tray Processor  ($169.98 @ Newegg) 
Motherboard: ASRock B450M PRO4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($78.98 @ Newegg) 
Memory: Team Vulcan 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($69.98 @ Amazon) 
Storage: Sabrent Rocket 256 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive  ($44.98 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: Corsair CX (2017) 550 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($64.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $428.91
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[Vishera]

When it comes to Photoshop you need a lot of RAM,a little bit of CPU power and almost zero GPU power.

I would recommend 16GB of RAM and at least a quad core.

 

I have an old Ivy bridge i5 and 8GB of RAM system,It did well in Photoshop with the iGPU.