Yes Gene, it amazes me that people will spend MuchO$ on lenses and cameras but think they will get by with a weak computer. Too often they buy a package built "good name" computer, not realizing how easily they can do it themselves. Building a "last year's" gaming computer will be sufficient for photo graphics for many years. If a person can plug in a lamp in the wall they can build a computer... connectors are foolproof with color and shape allowing only one place to go.

I have notice that the price of DDR-4 memory has dropped significantly. DDR-5 is coming soon. My computer has DDR-3, if I had DDR-4 it would take two eye blinks instead of three. In not a gamer, the improvement DDR-3 to DDR-4 is not significant to my work. As you stated Graphics card with 4 gig by Nvidia is great. Their program language blends well with some of the more advanced Ai programs.

And Adobe is old hat, for most work there are great programs out there at a one-time price or some even free. Plugins like Topaz do all the hard work for us... Stanley Kubrick in 2001: A Space Odyssey computer "Hal" is at our fingertips.