Nikon1201

A good gaming computer with a 250gb solid state hard drive and a 1tb hard dfive for your photos will be more than enough.

bengbeng Loc: Houston, Texas

One thing seldom mentioned that has become increasingly important to me is the level of fan noise. Gaming PCs can be very noisy. Business PC's tend to be quieter ( but more expensive for the same spec)

mckraft

Hello,
I have been building computers since the 80's. All the recommendations are great. Bottom line Best processer you can afford (i7 quad Core) max RAM your board will support. The most important update is your graphics/Video card, don't get in the trap of getting a high end gaming card, get a card designed for video editing. I use the Nvidia Quadro 5000. It's and old video card from 2011 which sold for $2000+ then, which now can be had less then $300 new. It does a fantastic job and is very fast. Remember video processing is done mostly in your graphics card. If your budget will support I would recommend a 4K monitor. Good luck with your build.

chrissybabe Loc: New Zealand

I built a really high end PC about 8 years ago (2 actually one for me and one for my wife). It had the 3rd fastest CPU, 32GB memory, good graphics card, triple channel memory of the fastest the motherboard would hold. It is still going well and I have no need to replace it, or my wifes. She has a D850 and it handles the large files okay. I used server cases which were even older. Plenty of internal room for the disk arrays. The 8 year ago upgrade went straight into the same case without touching the disks at the time. And the disks are mounted in a 5 disk chassis. I have had odd things fail, the odd disk, a couple of PS's, upgraded the video cards BUT all of this has been so easy to repair. I agonised at the time about the expense but it has proved to be well worth it. And because it was high end and fast right from the beginning I have had the value from this speed the entire time. My monitors are 32" 4k and 20" 1600x1200. One of the rare occasions when I have spent the money and never regretted it.

global

Thanks so much for information . I’m leaning on putting most of $ towards a pair of monitors and purchase a pc that has room for expansion. Thank for your expertise

global

That was a concern of mine as well. Thank you

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

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