I need suggestions to upgrade tower computer for win 11, will be using a 2TB external SSD

[henryh888123]

Hobby photographer, I would appreciate suggestions for a Windows PC tower. Will be using 2 TB external SSD for image storage. Looking for efficient graphics management and good graphics card. Suggestions?

[Bill Sprague]

Your question is impossible without some sort of budget.  And, there are lots of opinions!   

My list of basic priorities is:

Intel i7 or i9 for the processor

32GB or more for RAM

GPU made by NVIDIA

1 TB or more, solid state drive (SSD) 

[AxelMatt]

For the GPU I would prefer NVidia's RTX 30xx or 40xx. 

I'm using the RTX 3060 and it worked very well with LR and PS. This card does have a good price/performance ratio. 

If you want even more performance buy the RTX 4070/RTX 4090 or the new RTX 50 series. 

[dj_paige]

Recommendation: fast GPU and fast CPU. As fast as you can afford. For LrC, you don't really need more than 32GB RAM, but if you will be doing other things on this computer, perhaps you do need more than 32GB, it depends.

[Oelder]

See https://www.pugetsystems.com/ for advice with respect to Lightroom and Photoshop.