Photo system

[jaxlad]

Hello wise and wonderful people of this forum I need advice. I want to build a system that primary use is photo shop but can also play games. Need to be able to handle two screens. I have one screen already so need another. So need to build a system and get a monitor for £1000.
Thank you in advance for your help peeps

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Do you do print work ?
Will you be using Adobe lighthouse as well ?
Intel still holds Adobe crown

 

[jaxlad]

My partner is a photographer and she wants it for PS for when she does a photo job for editing the pics

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Nothing to fancy , solid gaming at 1080p with game Ng monitor and VA panel . 2 free games with card and UK RMA/warranty with mobo,GPU
Silent case


My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Intel Core i5-9400F 2.90GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £179.99
• 1 x Gigabyte B360 HD3 Intel B360 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £89.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD416G24= £89.99
• 1 x Gigabyte UD Pro 512GB SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Toshiba 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £68.99
• 1 x Gigabyte Aorus Radeon RX 570 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £158.99
• 1 x Seagate 1TB BarraCuda 7200rpm 64MB Cache Internal Hard Drive (ST1000DM010 Previously ST1000DM003)= £38.99
• 1 x Bitfenix Formula Series 450W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply= £59.99
• 1 x Corsair Carbide 275Q Silent Midi Tower Case - Black (CC-9011164-WW)= £77.99
• 1 x Cryorig M9I Single Tower Heatsink for Intel= £19.99
• 1 x Acer ED242QRA 24" 1920x1080 VA Full HD 144Hz FreeSync Widescreen Curved LED Gaming Monitor= £149.99

Total: £953.02 (includes shipping: £18.12)
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[jaxlad]

Would it this set up work but with nvidea card instead? I wouldn't need tge 1tb drive so that could free up an extra £38

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Would it this set up work but with nvidea card instead? I wouldn't need tge 1tb drive so that could free up an extra £38

Any personal reason for Nvidia over amd? Technically AMD is best value for money, GTX 1660ti is more powerful , and matches £280 Vega 56 for GPU power and less volts but lacks 3 free games .

Gtx 1660 non Ti is obsolete as gtx 1660 is out In. 2 weeks time

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Intel Core i5-9400F 2.90GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £179.99
• 1 x Gigabyte B360 HD3 Intel B360 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £89.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C14 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (TLGD416G24= £89.99
• 1 x Gigabyte UD Pro 512GB SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps Toshiba 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £68.99
• 1 x Bitfenix Formula Series 450W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply= £59.99
• 1 x Cryorig M9I Single Tower Heatsink for Intel= £19.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660Ti OC 6144MB GDDR6 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £269.99
• 1 x Phanteks Eclipse P300 Glass Midi Tower Case - Black/White= £44.99
• 1 x Acer ED242QRA 24" 1920x1080 VA Full HD 144Hz FreeSync Widescreen Curved LED Gaming Monitor= £149.99

Total: £987.11 (includes shipping: £13.20)​

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[jaxlad]

the only reason is that i have a read in a couple places that Photoshop works better with then over AMD cards. so as i need this first for photoshop fig best to go with that

 

[orbitalwalsh]

the only reason is that i have a read in a couple places that Photoshop works better with then over AMD cards. so as i need this first for photoshop fig best to go with that

True, but not by huge amounts at low entry

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Photoshop-CC-2018-NVIDIA-GeForce-vs-AMD-Radeon-Vega-1197/

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Photoshop-CC-2018-NVIDIA-GeForce-GPU-Performance-1139/

Gtx 1660 is about gtx 1070 performance

 

[jaxlad]

So you think I'm better off going amd rather than nvidea? Thank you for your help and patience mate

 

[orbitalwalsh]

So you think I'm better off going amd rather than nvidea? Thank you for your help and patience mate

The above Nvidia build would get you a better gaming rig

Price increase of it means you could get i7 8700 non K and Rx 570 , CPU would give better lightroom performance

 

[jaxlad]

The above Nvidia build would get you a better gaming rig

Price increase of it means you could get i7 8700 non K and Rx 570 , CPU would give better lightroom performance

How much more price increase? Still get good setting out of rx 570 right?

 

[Danny75]

Those are nice specs. And the monitor could be best choice for the money for gaming. Though maybe read up on photoshop and curved monitors. Some tend to prefer non-curved for such work. And some prefer VA (great blacks and contrast) and some IPS (better viewing angles and colour consistency) type panels.

If in doubt, and definitely wanting to favour Photoshop work over gaming, something like a 24" 1440p IPS like an Asus VX24AH might be a pretty safe choice. You can find those for £189.

24" is often found to be a bit small for 1440p in some ways (reading text mostly) but with higher PPI (pixels per inch) it can be of benefit to photo editing (122 PPI on 24" 1440p v 109 PPI on 27" 1440p).

There's also a Viewsonic VA2719-2K-SMHD (27" 1440p IPS) available for £199.

And a Dell P2418D (24" 1440p IPS) for £216. You pay more for Dell but they tend to have among the best quality (as far as monitors go) and the best customer service.

1660Ti should handle 1440p 60Hz gaming, as well.

 

[Danny75]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Acer Nitro VG240YU 24" 2560x1440 75Hz FreeSync QHD Widescreen LED Gaming Monitor= £209.99

Total: £209.99 ​

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This one's interesting too. You get a little more refresh rate, response time (claimed), and Freesync (which may or may not work well with Nvidia card after tweaking settings with CRU). Could be worth a punt.

 

[jaxlad]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Acer Nitro VG240YU 24" 2560x1440 75Hz FreeSync QHD Widescreen LED Gaming Monitor= £209.99

Total: £209.99
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This one's interesting too. You get a little more refresh rate, response time (claimed), and Freesync (which may or may not work well with Nvidia card after tweaking settings with CRU). Could be worth a punt.

Thank you for your ideas really appreciate the help guys

 

[orbitalwalsh]

acers are made nicely. wife has 24" 1440p IPS basic 60hz screen - first panels with bezel-less design like the Nirto series, really good

 

[RussD]

Buy an NVIDIA card for Photoshop & Lightroom. Also get 16GB fast RAM. You will need it if you run both together plus any add ons like Photosuite etc.