Photoshop slow and question about my system

[pslane1]

I have posted before about my Photoshop being slow but I have more questions.  After I have worked for awhile the whole computer gets so slow I have to re-boot!  This started happening when I upgraded to Windows 10 and bought a new computer.  I have been struggling with it for a year and added 2 memory sticks recently. 

Now my tech tells me that I need to buy a "true graphics station" for $2000 after I paid $1000 for this new 1 year old computer.  That is impossible.  My computer has always been able to handle Adobe product just fine until the changes I made.

My main question is this:  Do I really have to have this graphic station to use Photoshop and Illustrator?   Is that what you use?  Or is there something wrong here that can be fixed?   I am so frustrated at having to shut down and open my work over and over.

[D Fosse]

Please post Help > System Info (all of it; it's long). Just paste it into a reply.

General slowdowns in Photoshop are often caused by running out of scratch disk space. This is much more important than most people are aware of. Depending on file sizes, number of open documents and history states, you may need several hundred GB free disk space.

Second, the GPU. More and more functions are moved partly or entirely to the GPU now, and it takes a fairly new and fairly powerful GPU to handle it well. In practice, a Nvidia RTX 30-series or 40-series is what you want. Photoshop will work with older and lesser GPUs, but some functions may be very slow or not work at all.

But we'll see that in system info.