Hardware specs for photo and video editing (with programs like Photoshop, Corel, etc)

[nickgr]

Hello,
a friend of mine looks for a new PC. He is a graphic designer, working mainly with PhotoShop & Corel toolsets but wants to be able

to make movie editing also if needed.

A colleague proposed the following hardware:
-CPU: AMD A8 7600 (110eur),

- mobo: ASUS A88XM (80 eur),

- RAM: G.Skill F3 - 17000CL9D 8GB(2x4) DDR3 PC3 17000 2133MHZ SNIPER DUAL CHANNEL KIT (89EUR),

- PSU: SUPER FLOWER GOLDEN GREEN HX SERIES 550W

- CASE: AEROCOOL GT MIDI TOWER BLACK EDITION (36 EUR),

- HD: SEAGATE BARACUDA 1TB SATA3 (60EUR),

- DVD: PIONEER DVR 24X INTERNAL DVD/CD BURNER LABELFLASH SATA (23EUR).

- SSD: SSD KINGSTON SV300S37A/120G V300 120GB SATA3 2.5'' RETAIL (60EUR).

How does it looks? What else will be needed/or changed from the above?

Fan for the cpu? Fan for the case?

The internal Graphic Card is enough for these tasks or a seperate one is needed?
Another friend proposed a GTX970 4gb (360 eur), but i think its too expensive. A prefer a better monitor instead. What do you think?

What about a good monitor(in a good price of course!!!)?

A better case maybe, more silent one?

Any suggestions will be much appreciated because he has a deadline in buying a new and functional one PC!!!

thankssssssss
Nick

 

[Tradesman1]

For things like this if doing at all seriously woould want more power, GPU and DRAM. For rigs doing this type of work I generally suggest like a 8320, 16GB of DRAM and a good discrete GPU

 

[nickgr]

thanks,
i saw that the 8320 has much more power consumption comparing to 45watt of the 7600's. What do you suggest for the GPU?

For things like this if doing at all seriously woould want more power, GPU and DRAM. For rigs doing this type of work I generally suggest like a 8320, 16GB of DRAM and a good discrete GPU

 

[Tradesman1]

Do you have a budget?

 

[nickgr]

Its about 700-800 eur.but if its not enough for at least doing the image editing part comfortably
He prefers to wait until he saves some more.
Thanks

Do you have a budget?

 

[Tradesman1]

No worries, hope it helped

 

[nickgr]

No worries, hope it helped

hi, do you mean that with the 8320 and 16gb ram tha above built will be sufficient for heavy photo processing and light video processing? What GPU would you pick for this amount range(700-800 eur)?

thanks

 

[Tradesman1]

Might simply try with what you have, put any remainder aside then as you work, if you decide you need better you have a bit of a stash of cash and can be adding to it while you work with what's there. i.e. many may build a rig wanting SLI or XFire, but start with a single card then add another later