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I probably should have posted this before clicking "submit" on the order, but I'm impulsive that way, sometimes.
Current PC is an aging ultrabook - pretty slow in all respects, but portable. I need (well, want) a new workstation for... erm... work and, surprise surprise, a decent chunk of photo editing (PS, LR, maybe some occasional panorama stitching). I decided against simply upgrading the laptop - instead spending about £600 on a new small tower desktop. I have an unused Win 7.1 64bit disk from when I was planning to build a system a year ago, so I only need the black box (I also have a 24" IPS display). I've gone for:
Intel i7-4790K quad core
16GB RAM
120GB SSD for OS & apps
1TB secondary HDD for storage (will be backed up to a pre-existing NAS)
Onboard graphics
Nothing else!
I'm thinking the pretty speedy Haswell refresh CPU should do the job with Photoshop and LR both being multithreaded apps. Aside from the AMD Piledriver CPUs it seems very good bang for buck towards the upper end of available performance today - and should be significantly more powerful than the Piledriver (but about 2-2.5x more expensive). Given my need for a decent wedge of RAM and SSD+HDD, I thought an extra £100 or so on a reasonably high-end CPU would be worth it. I do usually have Excel, Outlook and maybe Word/Powerpoint open at the same time as using PS/LR as I find I can justify mucking around with photos far more when I'm multitasking with work...
Any views on whether I've missed anything key? Or way overspecced on anything? I realise the CPU is probably overkill, but I'm dying for my PS to be less laggy than it currently is...
I don't game (although I guess we should never say never...)
Current PC is an aging ultrabook - pretty slow in all respects, but portable. I need (well, want) a new workstation for... erm... work and, surprise surprise, a decent chunk of photo editing (PS, LR, maybe some occasional panorama stitching). I decided against simply upgrading the laptop - instead spending about £600 on a new small tower desktop. I have an unused Win 7.1 64bit disk from when I was planning to build a system a year ago, so I only need the black box (I also have a 24" IPS display). I've gone for:
Intel i7-4790K quad core
16GB RAM
120GB SSD for OS & apps
1TB secondary HDD for storage (will be backed up to a pre-existing NAS)
Onboard graphics
Nothing else!
I'm thinking the pretty speedy Haswell refresh CPU should do the job with Photoshop and LR both being multithreaded apps. Aside from the AMD Piledriver CPUs it seems very good bang for buck towards the upper end of available performance today - and should be significantly more powerful than the Piledriver (but about 2-2.5x more expensive). Given my need for a decent wedge of RAM and SSD+HDD, I thought an extra £100 or so on a reasonably high-end CPU would be worth it. I do usually have Excel, Outlook and maybe Word/Powerpoint open at the same time as using PS/LR as I find I can justify mucking around with photos far more when I'm multitasking with work...
Any views on whether I've missed anything key? Or way overspecced on anything? I realise the CPU is probably overkill, but I'm dying for my PS to be less laggy than it currently is...
I don't game (although I guess we should never say never...)