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Scott Paterson
26,869 PointsPC spec advice?
Hi guys At the moment i have a desktop with 1 TB Hard drive just a regular sata and 8 gig of memory Kingston 1066 mhz and a AMD A6 3500 processor on a ASUS F1A55- MLE motherboard, operating system is Windows 7 64 bit,
But there is room for upgrade like maybe SSD drive and a quad core processor currently 3 core, and more memory up to 32 gig.
So I have on my system used up 100 gig but have an external drive for music etc.I Have Adobe cloud and have Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, and maybe get into Premier next.So i am at a stage where what spec do i buy that could last few years.
It is that fine line between what you need and overkill :)
4 Answers
Thomas Skjelstad
11,541 PointsSSD is probably the cheapest upgrade that gives you the most speed increase. Upgraded my mac mini with an SSD it became 3 times faster. Same with my Alienware laptop. The stationary Gamers of Republic machine i upgraded as well with an SSD. The computers are completely different. Everything is so much faster.
Scott Paterson
26,869 PointsI am thinking that SSD would be the first thing to buy, see how it works with my current machine, then if not fine it is in place for my new machine, just need to decide what size now, so far on my hard drive i've only used 100 gig so 256 gig at a minimum so 256 gig or 512 gig which may be to much wasted space left.then i can use my current 1 tb drive to save my files.
and i guess i could add a stick of ddr 3 memory and take it to 12 gig
Jouni Pussinen
3,877 PointsSome thoughts about my own experiences. I got ssd (128 g too small) and it speeds alot my system. So i would go first on ssd.
Size depends on what you need. 256 is good for just system and adobe products in my opinion but if you decide to go premiere and video editing then think how much you need space.
Video files on ssd would speed up the editing process. But for large videoprojects you would also need good processors(i7) and gpu that is supported for rendering video effects.
I have 16 g ram and i have not really needed more on anything i have done, illustrator, photoediting or videoediting.
Scott Paterson
26,869 PointsThanks Jouni good to hear first hand experience, the video editing is probably going to be very light use so probably from sounds of things will be ok with 256.