Hello everyone, the time has come to buy a new computer...my photography hobby (+others) has been growing quite fast and i realise i need something better.
My girlfriends grandfather is willing to give us £800 to buy ourselves a new computer that we can use for productive purposes, lol
First il let you all know what i want and what i plan to do with it...
I have been doing a butt load of photography lately and usually only have time to sort through it later in bulk, so I will be doing a lot of uploading of pictures and sorting through thousands of pictures frequently...
i hope to be able to do this with a good response, perhaps while having a photo editing program like photoshop running in the back + browser etc.
I have only lately started working with RAW files but will be shooting in that format a lot more in the future.
Me and my girlfriend tab a lot while browsing and tend to keep a lot of tabs open and even open new windows frequently to start a new set of tabs...this usually has a lot of youtube but generally just a lot of websites...
I guess what I'm trying to say is our laptop (macbook 2007) is being overworked and can't handle the amount of things we do on it....
another program i intend to dip into quite a bit more is Blender and my macbook felt overworked very fast into me working on a project...
I need to do more multitask work without too much lagg
perhaps having 2-3 programs running (Blender, Sculptris, Photoshop)
But here is what he won't know.....
i have some "non productive" plans for this computer too...
Im going to want do quite a bit of gaming...i quit pc gaming when i got a ps3 as i could not afford a computer that would be worth me playing on....
the ps3 has been ok and worked good enough for now ...but I'm a pc gamer and i know the benefits
If i could get something that will run some of the new games on a high setting...
Hoping to get a reasonably high end card with possible SLi in the future so also need to consider that when getting the PSU
Oh and Ive been with geforce since 2/4/6800/7800 and now 220 GTx so kind of want to stay with geforce
the monitor will not be included in the £800 fund because i want to pump all the money into the computer and i can pay for the monitor(s)
I have used dual screen before and absolutely loved it for productivity and all round practicality...
NOT sure if i will be doing this but thought it might be something to mention
I have about 4TB of HDD space but would like a SSD for windows/programs included in this spec please...
not sure how much ram I'm going to need for this setup but i can always upgrade in the future (he will gladly upgrade the ram in the future if i tell him its too slow)
No need for OS...blu ray...soundcard...speakers...keyboard...mouse...
Haven't OCd before but def willing to learn to especially if it saves me money and means i can tweak my computer to be faster...
going to play it safe though and not overdo it so don't know if i need water cooling or whatnot...
hope i haven't gone all over the place with this post i just want to be detailed so hopefully people can help me and i can order soon...
EDIT: ah and i forgot to mention that my computer desk has a cabinet that will fit a computer case no bigger than 48cm (high) and 22cm (width)
My girlfriends grandfather is willing to give us £800 to buy ourselves a new computer that we can use for productive purposes, lol
First il let you all know what i want and what i plan to do with it...
I have been doing a butt load of photography lately and usually only have time to sort through it later in bulk, so I will be doing a lot of uploading of pictures and sorting through thousands of pictures frequently...
i hope to be able to do this with a good response, perhaps while having a photo editing program like photoshop running in the back + browser etc.
I have only lately started working with RAW files but will be shooting in that format a lot more in the future.
Me and my girlfriend tab a lot while browsing and tend to keep a lot of tabs open and even open new windows frequently to start a new set of tabs...this usually has a lot of youtube but generally just a lot of websites...
I guess what I'm trying to say is our laptop (macbook 2007) is being overworked and can't handle the amount of things we do on it....
another program i intend to dip into quite a bit more is Blender and my macbook felt overworked very fast into me working on a project...
I need to do more multitask work without too much lagg
perhaps having 2-3 programs running (Blender, Sculptris, Photoshop)
But here is what he won't know.....
i have some "non productive" plans for this computer too...
Im going to want do quite a bit of gaming...i quit pc gaming when i got a ps3 as i could not afford a computer that would be worth me playing on....
the ps3 has been ok and worked good enough for now ...but I'm a pc gamer and i know the benefits
If i could get something that will run some of the new games on a high setting...
Hoping to get a reasonably high end card with possible SLi in the future so also need to consider that when getting the PSU
Oh and Ive been with geforce since 2/4/6800/7800 and now 220 GTx so kind of want to stay with geforce
the monitor will not be included in the £800 fund because i want to pump all the money into the computer and i can pay for the monitor(s)
I have used dual screen before and absolutely loved it for productivity and all round practicality...
NOT sure if i will be doing this but thought it might be something to mention
I have about 4TB of HDD space but would like a SSD for windows/programs included in this spec please...
not sure how much ram I'm going to need for this setup but i can always upgrade in the future (he will gladly upgrade the ram in the future if i tell him its too slow)
No need for OS...blu ray...soundcard...speakers...keyboard...mouse...
Haven't OCd before but def willing to learn to especially if it saves me money and means i can tweak my computer to be faster...
going to play it safe though and not overdo it so don't know if i need water cooling or whatnot...
hope i haven't gone all over the place with this post i just want to be detailed so hopefully people can help me and i can order soon...
EDIT: ah and i forgot to mention that my computer desk has a cabinet that will fit a computer case no bigger than 48cm (high) and 22cm (width)
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