Photo Editing Rig

[Norgurth]

Hello, I'm putting together a photo editing rig and since it's not for me there's a couple of things that have no clue about and I thought this might be the place to get some more info.

 

First off the budget will be about 2000$-2500$ without the display.

 

* As far as I understand I won't need a lot of graphics power but in order to achieve 10-bit color depth I would need a work-station grade GPU, is that correct and if so is it worth the extra expense?

 

* Should I rather go for a 4770k or an older generation 6-core i7? 

 

* What do you think would be better: dual RAID0 SSDs or one PCIe SSD as main drive (or are both just overkill)?

[Coombzy]

for that price why not get a new gen X79 cpu build?

[Altecice]

Now when you say Photo Editing does this include any render time?

If not then you could go for an i5 or so.

 

One main PCIe SSD for sure btw.

[Norgurth]

No render time included. The most time consuming thing is probably stitching which can take up to 30 mins. I think, however I don't know how well photoshop can exploit multiple cores... I suppose i need to do some research on photoshop then.

Thanks for the answers.

I'd still need an answer to my first question though because if I don't need a work-station grade GPU i'll probably go with an i7 Ivy-Bridge-E / X79 build

[Lumi]

Get the older gen 6 core i7 and get a workstation graphics card because editing programs can use them very well compared to regular GPU's

[ViruZ_HUN]

get a build 4930k

[Norgurth]

Yup that's what I'll do:

 

-4930k

-Thinking of the ASUS Rampage IV Extreme

-32gb RAM  (probably Corsair Dominator Platinum 2133)

-Quadro 600k

(Not quite decided about the rest yet)

[ViruZ_HUN]

Yup that's what I'll do:

 

-4930k

-Thinking of the ASUS Rampage IV Extreme

-32gb RAM  (probably Corsair Dominator Platinum 2133)

-Quadro 600k

(Not quite decided about the rest yet)

argh. get a gtx 780 or something... I bet you will play same games too

[Norgurth]

I do play games but this rig isn't for me (that's why I don't know very much about the requirements of photoshop). 

The reason why I'm thinking of an RoG MoBo is because I think it'll do a little better on the overclocking side of things and it's not that much of a price difference to the Asus X79-deluxe.

And yeah I'm an Asus fanboy.