Hello , i'm new to the forum and id like to say that i saw so meny beautiful moddings and cases and i'm like wasting 3-4 hours a day just wondering ), ok so bag to the helping part. I was wondering if you cguys could help me build a computer for video editing for around 380$ I mainly do lightroom/photoshop/illustrator and adobe premiere . I was thinking of an Apu A8 7600 could you guys help me up with a list on partpicker or some site. I live in europe.
I'm not up to date with the current specifics of lightroom/photoshop/illustrator but here are my thoughts as rough guide until someone more knowledgeable comes along to assist. I'd suggest you want the fastest CPU you can afford with at least 4 cores, fast HDs and plenty of RAM. For storage an SSD is a must for OS and your current project(s) with a large mechanical HD for main storage. If you can stretch to a 2nd SSD (even if small capacity) it would be very useful for the Photoshop Scratch and Lightroom Catalogue. I wouldn't worry about RAID. For the RAM I'd go for capacity over speed; certainly go for 16GB minimum if you can and only look at the faster rated stuff if you have headroom in your budget. I believe many processes can be accelerated via the GPU so you'll want to look into this as it could make a big difference but I'm not sure of the actual specifics although I would imagine any modern GPU would at least suffice. If your budget is limiting then you could go for 8GB RAM, a single SSD and a lower-end / second-hand GPU with the intention of upgrading these in the future.
