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DaveMcKeen
Inspiring
February 23, 2018
Question

New PC Build for Photoshop - Please Critique

  • February 23, 2018
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Hello!  I am getting together a list of parts for a new PC build and would like comments, feedback and advice.  I want to be able to nimbly process video with Photoshop (19.0.1.29687) in the Motion workspace and Bridge (8.0.1.282)in Filmstrip view. 

Here’s what I have so far.  Oh, it reminds me of Trevor.Dennis post today:  https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2456464

Motherboard   ROG MAXIMUS X HERO  Intel Z370 ATX gaming motherboard with Aura Sync RGB LEDs,DDR4 4133MHz, dual M.2 and USB 3.1 Gen 2

      Newegg Item#: 9SIA2F86MG9210 $255.88

CPU Intel Core i7-8700K Coffee Lake 6-Core 3.7 GHz (4.7 GHz Turbo) LGA 1151 (300 Series) 95W BX80684I78700K Desktop Processor Intel UHD Graphics 630

Micro Center $329.99, Newegg Item#: N82E16819117827 $369.99 (sale)

CPU Cooler

      Use the cooler in the CPU box  (Or recommend)

DRAM  DDR4-2666 288-Pin

      Motherboard supports 64 GB

      Windows 10 Home supports 128 GB, Windows 10 Pro supports 512 GB

      CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 64GB (4 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2666 (PC4 21300) AMD X399 Compatible Desktop Memory Model CMK64GX4M4A2666C16

            Newegg Item#: N82E16820233891  $747.99

GPU

      MSI GeForce GTX 1060 DirectX 12 GTX 1060 GAMING X 6G 6GB 192-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready ATX Video Card

            Newegg $369.99

PSU

      SeaSonic SSR-650RM 650W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular

            Newegg  Item#: N82E16817151118 $79.00

SSD1 (C:\), SDD2 (Photoshop scrctch + misc))

SAMSUNG 960 EVO M.2 500GB NVMe PCI-Express 3.0 x4 Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-V6E500BW  (I believe the Asus motherboard will support two of these at PCIe 3 x4)

$199.99 at Amazon, Newegg Item#: N82E16820147594 $199.99

HDD1 (Data)

      Seagate IronWolf Pro ST2000NE0025 2TB 7200 RPM 128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

            Newegg Item#: N82E16822179102  $129.99

USB 3.1Expansion Card

      StarTech 7-port PCI Express USB 3.0 card - standard and low-profile design Model PEXUSB3S7

            Newegg Item#: N82E16815158412 $58.74

Windows 10 Pro 64-bit – OEM

      Newegg Item#: N82E16832588491  $149.99

Already have:

Monitor NEC PA242W

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    Legend
    March 22, 2018

    Guess what? Much of what you listed is overkill for Photoshop. Photoshop doesn't support CUDA natively; its native GPGPU API support is OpenCL which nVidia GPUs have historically been poor at performing in. And although Photoshop makes good use of system RAM, it does not efficiently use more than four physical CPU cores.

    DaveMcKeen
    Inspiring
    March 22, 2018

    Thanks for that feedback!  What do you recommend for a graphics card?  I'm leery of AMD since I had to reinstall Windows in a new build after installing ATI Catalyst once upon a time.   

    I would like to be doing other work like editing and rendering video clips.  Is four cores the way to go?

    - Dave

    Peru Bob
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    March 22, 2018

    DaveMcKeen  wrote

    I would like to be doing other work like editing and rendering video clips.  Is four cores the way to go?

    If using Premiere Pro, you want at least a hex core with hyperthreading.

    Akash Sharma
    Legend
    March 21, 2018

    Moving to Hardware Forum