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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · Your thoughts on Puget Systems or other recommended vendors | |
Building your own system can be fun and rewarding. It takes some research to pick the components, but after you do that, you understand how the computer works better. My son and I built him a gaming system for his HS graduation present. I picked out the components, ordered them, then we assembled them together. It was pretty easy, especially given all the how to videos on Youtube if you have any questions. All in all I paid $1500 without monitor for a kickass gaming system that plays any and all online games at full frame rates and max resolution, over wifi too. It doesn't even get hot when working hard.
This is a great resource to price out and check the hardware compatibility of the components you chose: http://pcpartpicker.com/
I understand wanting to buy a ready made system, and I almost went that direction, but the assembling of the system was half the fun. YMMV.
For photo processing, I would recommend and i7 processor, 16GB RAM, an 120 GB SSDD for the OS, and at least 2 each 1TB 7200 RPM HDD for storage. A video card with 2GB RAM on board won't hurt either.
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