Wifey Photo Editing Build

[Stefan15]

Hello everyone,

 

Trying to surprise the wife with a new computer to edit her photos on. This will be my first build, so I thought I would get the input of everyone on the board.

 

Budget is about 1300 dollars

She will be using Lightroom CS and Photoshop mainly. Not much if any video editing.

Not a professional photog, just an weekender

She plays games like "Sims 4" and some stuff from the Microsoft game pass network

Will need Windows 10

Not bringing any parts over(she has an older laptop now)

In the future she might go to two monitors but for now, she is happy with one

Already have a mouse and keyboard and NAS storage for backup of photos etc

I am located in the US

I pretty much copied a Linus budget build for editing, just want to make sure she will be okay

 

Thank you!

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/tBmGx6

[Rxkvn07]

she will be fine 

[Chen G]

15 minutes ago, Stefan15 said:

Hello everyone,

 

Trying to surprise the wife with a new computer to edit her photos on. This will be my first build, so I thought I would get the input of everyone on the board.

 

Budget is about 1300 dollars

She will be using Lightroom CS and Photoshop mainly. Not much if any video editing.

Not a professional photog, just an weekender

She plays games like "Sims 4" and some stuff from the Microsoft game pass network

Will need Windows 10

Not bringing any parts over(she has an older laptop now)

In the future she might go to two monitors but for now, she is happy with one

Already have a mouse and keyboard and NAS storage for backup of photos etc

I am located in the US

I pretty much copied a Linus budget build for editing, just want to make sure she will be okay

 

Thank you!

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/tBmGx6

If you're just running photoshop, you don't need a graphics card at all.

[boggy77]

Don't need thermal paste, cheaper ram, larger ssd, faster gpu, better psu.

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor	$189.99 @ Amazon
Motherboard	MSI B450M PRO-VDH MAX Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard	$79.98 @ Amazon
Memory	G.Skill Ripjaws V 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory	$149.99 @ Newegg
Storage	HP EX950 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$135.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Seagate IronWolf NAS 3 TB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive	$95.72 @ Amazon
Video Card	EVGA GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER 4 GB SC ULTRA GAMING Video Card	$163.98 @ Newegg
Case	Fractal Design Focus G ATX Mid Tower Case	$55.88 @ Amazon
Power Supply	Corsair TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply	$73.98 @ Newegg
Operating System	Microsoft Windows 10 Home 32/64-bit	$139.99 @ Best Buy
Case Fan	Fractal Design FD-FAN-SSLL-120-WT 41.8 CFM 120 mm Fan	$17.64 @ Amazon
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$1133.14
	Mail-in rebates	-$30.00
	Total	$1103.14
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-01-22 13:13 EST-0500

 

[SPARTAN VI]

Just now, Chen G said:

If you're just running photoshop, you don't need a graphics card at all.

He would also have to switch to a Ryzen APU (e.g. 3400G) if he drops the videocard, since the Ryzen 5 3600 does not have integrated graphics. Will probably take a hit when it comes to opening and resizing RAW files. 

[Chen G]

3 minutes ago, SPARTAN VI said:

He would also have to switch to a Ryzen APU (e.g. 3400G) if he drops the videocard, since the Ryzen 5 3600 does not have integrated graphics. Will probably take a hit when it comes to opening and resizing RAW files. 

GPU still makes almost no difference, I run these things on my MBP with integrated graphics, it's not any slower than my PC with 2080ti.

Adobe's ancient code just don't take advantage of modern stuff like multiple cores and GPU compute.

The only exception being AE, and they just brute-force it by running multiple instances of the render thread at the same time.

[boggy77]

13 minutes ago, Chen G said:

GPU still makes almost no difference, I run these things on my MBP with integrated graphics, it's not any slower than my PC with 2080ti.

Adobe's ancient code just don't take advantage of modern stuff like multiple cores and GPU compute.

The only exception being AE, and they just brute-force it by running multiple instances of the render thread at the same time.

She also plays some games. If the budget allows, why not let her have a nice experience?

[Stefan15]

Thank you all for your help! I appreciate it! @boggy77 I will follow your recommendations!