Valerie9185 Loc: Weeki Wachee florida

Thank you TriX. I was actually looking at that.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

In that case, if it were me, I’d choose:

AMD 9 5950x or Intel I9 12900KF
Asus Motherboard
64 GB Corsair DDR4 memory
Samsung 980 Pro 1-2TB m.2 NVME
Geoforce RTX 3060 video card
Aeresgame 650 W power supply
LG Blu Ray/M-Disk drive
Fractal Design or Corsair case
For more storage, I’d add additional Samsung SSD (2-4 TB) or HGST Ultrastar SATA (4-8TB)

Valerie9185 Loc: Weeki Wachee florida

Thank you 🤞

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

You’re welcome - so much fun to spend other people’s money

Cheers,
Chris

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Sounds like a fan or the drive wearing out.

Open the case and listen to see where the sound is coming from.
If a fan, just replace it.
If a HDD is making the noise then transfer everything to another drive (new internal or an external) immediatelly and then replace that drive and transfer everything back to the new internal HDD.

Drives are fairly cheap.
Now if the machine was not a really powerful one when new you might want to get a newer more powerful one or upgrade some things.
My desktop was a 2011 iBUYPOWER gamer and in 2019 when it developed a problem in the power control section of the mother board I just bought parts and paid a tech to swap things out, add a SSD for the C drive etc. But I kept some of the internals. My total came to just under $2K.
Here is where I got my specs for the rebuild: https://photographylife.com/the-ultimate-pc-build-for-photography-needs
click on the arrow to the right of "Introduction" and a menu of recommended builds back to 2015 opens up, I used the 2019 Coffee Lake Refresh build. I got my parts from Macro Center and paid a local tech I use $250 to throughly clean everything, check everything out and replace the old parts with the new ones then tune it got performance and load everything in from my backup drive. I do a whole machine backup every night at 8PM while I watch my news shows I record 5-8 PM using FF for the commercials or things I find boring-takes less than 2 hours to watch 3 hours of network news. I have Acronis set to do a full backup every Tuesday night and then incremental backups Wed to Mon and save the last backup string until the current one is finished until the third one is started.

Valerie9185 Loc: Weeki Wachee florida

Thanks for the ideas, greatly appreciated.

Julian Loc: Sarasota, FL

How are you making your prediction? What are the symptoms? It would be interesting to know.

Canisdirus

I'd suggest you look at gaming desktops...
They overlap in most areas for photography and video editing...
Monitor aside that is...just talking about ram and CPU,GPU.

BebuLamar

Even if you buy new computer still fix the old one. I think it's a simple problem although after you got it fixed a new computer is still desirable.

traderjohn Loc: New York City

Anything you can afford by Apple.

Capn_Dave

I was in the same dilemma a while back I was going to do a DIY build and then noticed the price of GPU (Video cards) if you can even get them. It was actually cheaper to get a custom built Dell Alienware R-10. You don't really need huge amounts of memory. at least a Ryzen 7 CPU with, 16 gig of memory, is enough along with an 8 gig memory video card for Photoshop. I also have a 1000 watt power supply to help run all my external hard drives. All that for under 2 grand.

bkwaters

The problem is right now GPUs are almost unavailable. But in an ideal world an AMD Ryzen 5600 or Intel 12600 (or better) CPU, NVIDIA RTX GPU, NVME or SSD hard drive and 32 mb of RAM. The brand of computer doesn’t matter.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Interesting.

I won't buy an Apple. Windows for me.

You must be a dedicated Apple fan.

BebuLamar

The Apple is the real personal computer and not the PC. The PC is more or less the generic computer. So people who use the Apple take it quite personally.

Valerie9185 Loc: Weeki Wachee florida

Thank you all for this great advice. I will take it all into consideration. Just not sure what will actually be available these days

I know that I came to the right place!