I visited the NVidia Geforce Forum (PC Components discussions) and they offerd advice and also a link to Studio 1 Productions. I emailed them as the benchmarks in the link referred to the GTX 1060 when used with Premiere CC. I said that I would be using Elements and posed the question about integrated graphics within the i7-7700K processor. I also contacted Intel Customer Support with the same question. I have had feedback from both Dave at studio1@studio1productions.com and Intel Technical Support. Dave's reply was as follows: "Correct, Premiere Elements does not support GPU acceleration. If the motherboard has an Intel graphics chip, then that is all you will need for Premiere Elements. So you can save some money by not installing a graphics card and just using the onboard graphics. Make sure you have at least 16 GB of system RAM and also, don't install Hard Drives, but use SSD drives. You should have two SSD drives installed. One for you system and all of the programs and the other drive you will want to put your photos and video clips on for editing". Daniel at Intel replied: Thank you for contacting Intel® Customer Support. We can confirm that the Intel® Core™ i7-7700K Processor has integrated graphics. Please see the below link with full specifications and Graphics description further down the page: http://ark.intel.com/products/97129/Intel-Core-i7-7700K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_50-GHz Support links for Intel HD Graphics 630: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/graphics-drivers/graphics-for-7th-generation-intel-processors/intel-hd-graphics-630.html Intel will not be able to judge performance expectations or guarantee that all user requirements, such as gaming or rendering, will be met however. Here is a 3rd party link to compare user benchmarks; these again differ per user: http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-1060-3GB-vs-Intel-HD-630-Desktop-Kaby-Lake/3646vsm178724 I will now contact the two online companies who provided the specs and quotes and see what they think about not including the video card. I have also thought about buying the components independently online or from a store, Maplin for example, and asking a technician to build the PC. Is there money to be saved again? I found out that The Seagate Firecuda 2TB SSHD is part solid state (the cache) and the majority is a conventional hard drive 7500rpm. I am now looking at prices of a large capacity SSD for use as the D;drive and use the that I would have spent on the video card.
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