Photo editing rig

[Jtg182]

So im planning to buy a pc soon.i will be using it for editing pictures and videos.  I will probably be using lightroom/photoshop. What sort of thing should i be looking for?

 

I guess something with an i7? 

 

Bugdet is £600 

 

Im from the United kingdom. 

 

Any help would be much appreciated

 

[NMS]

When it comes to Photoshop (can't speak for Lirghtroom) it benefits more from core count. So a Ryzen CPU is a better choice since it's cheaper and has more cores/threads.

Ryzen 5 2600 is what I would suggest along with a B450 motherboard to save some money.

I'll leave the details to those who like posting full systems.

 

Edit: The more RAM the better. 8GB will not be enough that's for sure, specially if you're working with large files or files that have a lot of layers, so 16GB is a minimum.

[Herman Mcpootis]

an i7 8700 would do better for adobe so if it fits the budget, i'd recommend that.

[Herman Mcpootis]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i7-8700 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor  (£269.99 @ Aria PC) 
Motherboard: Gigabyte - B360M D3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£70.80 @ Aria PC) 
Memory: ADATA - XPG GAMMIX D10 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory  (£66.96 @ Ebuyer) 
Storage: Crucial - MX500 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£51.59 @ Aria PC) 
Video Card: Zotac - GeForce GT 1030 2GB Video Card  (£68.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) 
Case: CiT - CIT-F3WHITEBLACK MicroATX Mini Tower Case  (£25.99 @ AWD-IT) 
Power Supply: be quiet! - Pure Power 10 CM 400W 80+ Silver Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£45.48 @ Amazon UK) 
Total: £599.80
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-08-06 10:15 BST+0100

[ZeouLs]

1 minute ago, Herman Mcpootis said:

an i7 8700 would do better for adobe so if it fits the budget, i'd recommend that.

1030 is idk... it's like, the adopted child noone likes but has to deal with

 

 

 

I would go with a R5 2600, you wont need an extra cooler since the stock one is good enough. B450 Mobos are cheap. Since your budget is limited any cheap case will do the work. For RAM I would stick with 8GB for now since RAM prices are insane, doesnt need to be fancy RGB, cheap barebones to save money. For the PSU my go to is the EVGA SuperNOVA G2. For the GPU I would try to get my hands on a 1060 6GB/1050Ti if not new I would try to get a used one.

@Jtg182

[Altruist]

@Jtg182

[AskTJ]

10 minutes ago, Altruist said:

@Jtg182

That doesn't help them at all.

[Jtg182]

I dont mind getting a used set up which means i could probably get a better set up. 

 

Here are the requirements to run lightroom.

 

 

[brob]

Photoshop benefits from fewer, higher performance cores rather than more cores.

 

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Photoshop-CC-2018-CPU-Performance-AMD-Ryzen-2-vs-Intel-8th-Gen-1136/

[Jtg182]

Would this spec be ok for it or would it need better parts in it? 

 

[Herman Mcpootis]

12 minutes ago, Jtg182 said:

Would this spec be ok for it or would it need better parts in it? 

 

 

the only specs listed is a 750ti and 8gb of ram, that doesn't tell us a single thing about how good the rig is.

[brob]

5 hours ago, Jtg182 said:

Would this spec be ok for it or would it need better parts in it? 

 

 

No. The cpu is several generations out of date (DDR3 is not used these days, 500GB hdd have not been the norm for some time, no ssd) and the psu is so over capacity that I suspect a cheap unit was installed.