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pshyvers wrote:
technic, it boiled down like this:
- R7 1600X ($250)
- A320 microATX motherboard ($60)
- RX550 ($80)
- 16GB 2400MHz single stick ($80)
- small M.2 drive ($60)
- budget PSU ($30)
Slightly more than the $500 I quoted when I add it up. But anyway, the 1600X has excellent single thread perf, plus 12 threads for parallelizable editing (like batch photos or video). Budget motherboard chipset because we don't need overclocking or flashy lights. RX550 should be enough for editing & 4K, and mine is very compact & slot-powered. I went for the 5 series over the cheaper 4 series because the 5 series supports HDR and the newest version of DP. (eventual upgrade) Skimp on RAM speed because it helps games, not photo editing, and single stick lets you add a second if you need more later. M.2 drives are awesome, blisteringly fast, and budget ones are quite cheap. Make sure your mobo has a M.2 slot, and install Windows/Linux/programs on the SSD and store RAWs on platters.
Basically I splurged everywhere that is of value for media editing, (single thread perf, M.2, 16GB),and went as cheap as possible on everything that is not (budget mobo, slower RAM, small SSD). It's small, it's reasonable on power, it's not totally silent but that's mostly because I got cheap fans....Show more →
Thanks, I will look into that in the next weeks. There are no local shops in my part of the country that sell good quality hardware components, it's either complete brand systems from companies like Mediamarkt or very cheap assembly clones. So I have to order all parts from webshops (that often don't know exactly what they are selling ...) and it's probably going to be a lot more expensive over here.
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Shutterbug2006 wrote:
I just recently bought an i5/8GB ram/256GB Surface Pro 4 and installed the latest version of DPP on it. It runs as fast as my i7/16GB Dell. They just released what they're simply calling a "Surface Pro" with double the battery life, and increases the pen from 1024 to 4096 levels. Consequently you can find some incredible deals on Surface Pro 4's. I bought mine for $1088 plus $149 for two years of accidental damage coverage.
Standalone Photoshop CS6 runs great, after tweaking the program to display properly on a High-DPI display.
Get a friend in Canada or the US to pickup a MS Surface and ship it to you to take advantage of the price differential..... $3500 euro is about $5000 Canadian so you would save a lot of money if that is what you need to do.
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I would also go with the i5 when buying the Surface Pro4 (or the new model), but would prefer a bigger internal drive and 16 GB RAM. The 3500 euro is for the version with 1 TB internal drive which is way overpriced ... the i5/8GB/256GB Pro 4 is now selling for around 1100 euro (it was a few hundred more last month), so similar to US price. However, I don't know if I can work with just 256GB internal drive, I would have to change my work-flow for that (I don't like hooking up to external drives, especially with such small laptops).
The MS Studio all-in-one is going to cost around 5000 euros for a serious configuration, but it's not even known for sure if they will be sold here (the Surface Pro 4 has only been available over here for a few months ...). Of course the main attraction of that system is the ultrahigh resolution display and the assumption that it all works well because it is sold as a complete system. Will have to see what the users think ;-)
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