Need help on a future build.

zIMrNemo- · May 13, 2020

I’m needing some help on a future Build for my Wife. She’s getting into Photography. And wanting to do photo editing in Specific. Not any video editing. What would be a good AMD CPU that would work without going complete overkill.

Statik · May 13, 2020

What's your budget?

zIMrNemo- · May 13, 2020

I’m trying to spend anywhere from around 1,200-$1,400 without peripherals.

WambleCropped · May 13, 2020

3 minutes ago, zIMrNemo- said:

I’m needing some help on a future Build for my Wife. She’s getting into Photography. And wanting to do photo editing in Specific. Not any video editing. What would be a good AMD CPU that would work without going complete overkill.

r3 3300X or the r3 3100 or the r5 3600

5x5 · May 13, 2020

1 minute ago, zIMrNemo- said:

I’m trying to spend anywhere from around 1,200-$1,400 without peripherals.

I assume that's freedom dollars?

Get a Ryzen 5 3600 and an ASRock B450 Pro4 board with some DDR4 3200 16GB kit

Statik · May 13, 2020

2 minutes ago, zIMrNemo- said:

I’m trying to spend anywhere from around 1,200-$1,400 without peripherals.

Make sure you quote someone or use "@" to tag them or you may not get a reply.

But I would recommend this.

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor	$172.39 @ Newegg
Motherboard	MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX ATX AM4 Motherboard	$114.99 @ Best Buy
Memory	G.Skill Aegis 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory	$65.99 @ Newegg
Storage	ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive	$149.97 @ Amazon
Storage	Western Digital Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive	$43.99 @ Best Buy
Video Card	Gigabyte Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 GB GAMING OC Video Card	$269.99 @ Newegg
Power Supply	Corsair CXM 650 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply	$94.99 @ Best Buy
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$932.31
	Mail-in rebates	-$20.00
	Total	$912.31
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-05-13 10:58 EDT-0400

If she's not gaming or anything, this will perform plenty well enough for her needs. You could also make changes to the drives or the GPUs if you wanted.