My current build is a few years old, I have an i5-2500k, 8GB ram with a GeForce GTX 560 Ti. I mainly bought it for gaming, as with all my rigs, but these days I work heavily in photography and especially video, where I'm working with a lot of data and I feel like I could improve my workflow without spending the earth, but am a bit unsure on what components to get. I use mainly adobe products, my biggest resource strain is premiere and after effects, both of which I believe can render faster with CUDA (which I think my existing card has).
I've heard that you should stick with the i5 series for gaming but don't know if for editing I should use i7s, a bit out of my depth. Another big problem I'm having is memory, I tend to have multiple editing applications (such as lightroom and photoshop, and have chrome for other businesses purposes) open simultaneously and this really eats away at my 8GB ram and often get warning messages/applications like Chrome crashing.
I don't really want to spend any more than £500-600 max on the PC, I don't need HDDs as I have an SSD and lots of SATA drives for storage, but that accounts for about 4 HDDs in total which at the moment I have sitting outside my case so would be good to have a decent tower for that.
My other big outlay I'd like to make is on a monitor, not entirely sure on that front either. I think IPS is the best route? I have a pretty rubbish 1080p monitor at the moment but would like to spend £500-600 max again on a decent monitor, I have a colour calibrator so don't need to account for that.
Really grateful for any help on the matter. I still will be gaming but to be honest I don't really get that much grief on my current rig for gaming (albeit I'm only at 1080p...)
I've heard that you should stick with the i5 series for gaming but don't know if for editing I should use i7s, a bit out of my depth. Another big problem I'm having is memory, I tend to have multiple editing applications (such as lightroom and photoshop, and have chrome for other businesses purposes) open simultaneously and this really eats away at my 8GB ram and often get warning messages/applications like Chrome crashing.
I don't really want to spend any more than £500-600 max on the PC, I don't need HDDs as I have an SSD and lots of SATA drives for storage, but that accounts for about 4 HDDs in total which at the moment I have sitting outside my case so would be good to have a decent tower for that.
My other big outlay I'd like to make is on a monitor, not entirely sure on that front either. I think IPS is the best route? I have a pretty rubbish 1080p monitor at the moment but would like to spend £500-600 max again on a decent monitor, I have a colour calibrator so don't need to account for that.
Really grateful for any help on the matter. I still will be gaming but to be honest I don't really get that much grief on my current rig for gaming (albeit I'm only at 1080p...)
