cigar dude Loc: South Central MA

I bought a gaming Win OS computer from Cyberpowerpc with 1660 Super card, 16 Ram (can upgrade to 64 in the future) and a AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor 3.59 GHz. 500 ssd, and a 2TB HDD for about a grand.
The difference in running PS, LR, and Topaz is amazing compared to my older one. I believe B&H has it too, but they sell out fast.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1558988-REG/cyberpowerpc_gma9020cpg_gamer_master_ryzen_5.html

KLambar Loc: New Jersey

You should have waited as I got an XPS 8940 with Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super with 16GB ram, 256GB SSD and 1TB hard drive for what you paid .

one_eyed_pete Loc: Colonie NY

I started looking before Christmas at Microcenter and saw a 8940, GTX 1660?, 32 GB, 500GB SSD, 1TB HD, for about $1,000. Hesitated because I didn't want to do the 4 hr RT drive to pick it up. After Christmas the price went up $400. I was afraid to wait again.

cigar dude Loc: South Central MA

Your happy - I'm happy
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amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

Photoshop and image editing in general is nowhere near as demanding as gaming.... so the general answer would be "yes".

However, a game-oriented monitor may not be all that great. It will likely be overly bright and not render color all that accurately. It may be possible to calibrate. Even so, monitors optimized for gaming often have very fast refresh rates, but don't necessarily render as full color gamut as a graphics quality monitor. If you are buying just the computer without any monitor, there should be no problem matching it up to a quality graphics monitor such as some of the BenQ designed with photography in mind.

A gaming computer will likely have plenty of processor power and RAM. Look for at least 8GB RAM, though 16 or 32GB would be better. Any processor made the last 5 or 7 years is more than enough to handle PS.

If the computer comes with a single disk drive (probably an SSD these days), that may not be ideal. Photography tends to fill up drives rapidly, so be sure any computer has room for expansion, to add one or more additional drives.

Also, Photoshop works best if it has a "scratch disk", separate from the disk where the software itself resides. That scratch disk does need to be for Photoshop's exclusive use, but doesn't need to be very large. I've got 100GB set aside and have rarely seen it reach 1/3 full. It's also possible to create a partition on an existing drive to serve as Photoshop's scratch disk. The computer and the software won't know the difference between a partition and an actual, physically separate disk.

Finally, a lot of gaming computers have all sorts of "flashy" crap.... Clear panels so you can show off the innards, LED lighting and such. I wouldn't want that stuff in an image processing computer. LED lighting might even be detrimental... affecting your vision and color accuracy.

vbhargava Loc: San Diego

You can go to photograhylife.com and search for ultimate computer for photography. In that article the author goes into details about the role of each component and then makes recommendations for an ideal computer. Hope you find it helpful.

Drbobcameraguy Loc: Eaton Ohio

Visit Nvidias website. They have drivers especially for photography and especially for gaming. Nividia is the leader in AI Photo manipulation. Neat site with lots of info over my head. Lol.

jeff1234 Loc: Kirkland, WA

I use the Nvidia GTX 1650 for Photoshop and it works fine. It also works with Topaz, programs that use more of the GPU for processing. I also have an SSD and 32 GB of RAM.

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

It used to be that gaming machines were faster and better graphics than an off the shelf desk to work station. In other words they were just faster, more memory and better graphics. Now days not so much so. I took the specs from adobe, added faster processor with multi core, and a little better graphics. When I told the shop what I wanted, their response was, oh you want a gaming machine. I just didn't get a gaming monitor, which would not be a good idea. I also added a ssd. With a reg hard drive for data. Cost was a grand.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

Yes, the programing language used in NVIDIA is modern and useful to many AI programs, for example my favorite AI ... Google Deep Dreams... which is AI gone crazy seeing thing like dogs where there should be an ear.