Custom Photography PC

[maniaca4]

My mom wants me to build her a photography editing PC for Christmas and I was going to ask you guys about hardware. My rig runs a intel i7 4770k cpu and I was planning on giving her the same. Since it is photography oriented I was not getting a graphics card as I do not believe she will need it. I was planning on giving her a minimum of 16 gb of RAM if not 32 I am currently using 16 gb of G.Skill Trident X and it has been working great but I don't know if there is something better for photography. I have no clue what mother board to get her as I don't think she needs a gaming motherboard so would love any advice there. Thank You for any advice in advance.

[NicekillBG]

well  i am going to study photography too so a edditing pc which is mostly anti gaming will be great

[Laputacake]

Budget, Location, Case preference

[Guest]

Umm, most photo editing suites will support CUDA and/or OpenCL acceleration, so you might want to dial back the CPU and get a graphics card.

And the video Linus recently did on RAM usage showed Photoshop not benefiting from more than 8GB of RAM in the test they did.

Also, the most important part of a photo editing workstation is a monitor with accurate colour reproduction.

[Laputacake]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V3 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£190.38 @ Scan.co.uk)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U9B SE2 37.9 CFM CPU Cooler  (£42.14 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: MSI H97M-G43 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£65.20 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  (£120.20 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£76.20 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£95.80 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£95.80 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card  (£106.99 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Fractal Design Define R5 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£87.06 @ Scan.co.uk)
Power Supply: Super Flower Golden Silent 430W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£89.59 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Total: £969.36
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-11-27 18:05 GMT+0000

[maniaca4]

Budget, Location, Case preference

Budget Around $1000 can go higher though

Location under a desk

Case no preference need to pick that out to fit components will probably ask her.

[maniaca4]

need to mention one more thing she is primarily using light room ONLY but I would like to give her the ability to try new things.

[Laputacake]

need to mention one more thing she is primarily using light room ONLY but I would like to give her the ability to try new things.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V3 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($234.98 @ SuperBiiz)

CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U9B SE2 37.9 CFM CPU Cooler  ($39.98 @ OutletPC)

Motherboard: MSI H97M-G43 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($87.99 @ Directron)

Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory  ($154.99 @ Amazon)

Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($98.98 @ SuperBiiz)

Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($104.67 @ Amazon)

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card  ($119.99 @ Newegg)

Case: Fractal Design Core 1300 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  ($39.99 @ NCIX US)

Power Supply: SeaSonic 450W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($67.89 @ SuperBiiz)

Total: $949.46

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-11-27 13:32 EST-0500