Cheap and Good Computer...?

[YuanJiawj]

Hello everyone! I want have a new computer for use with Photoshop , Illustrator and sometimes with After Effects and Premiere Pro. haven't much money for now and would like to know your opinion about these components for a new PC.

• Processor: AMD FX-6300 3,5GHz
• RAM: 8GB DDR3 Kingstone HyperX
• HDD: 1TB Seegate Barracuda
• Motherboard: Gigabyte 780LMT-USB3
• Graphics: Not for now...

So.. What do u think about this? Thanks!

 

[viktik]

Will this config work without graphics card?

 

[MikeV]

All good except Seagate......it really sucks
I had 2 Seagate hard drives in the past and one external....none of them working now. I used them for approx 1 year, then they start to fail me.....
Western Digital is my choice since then.......never failed me and believe me i make an extreme use of my PC for 12-15 hours per day including
designing programs as well as music production ones

 

[FireShootSK]

I use
Processor: AMD Athlon II X4 641 2,8GhZ
4GB Ram
Toshiba 500GB HDD+ Samsung 1TB external
AMD Radeon 7770HD
and i use Adobe Premiere, Photoshop, After Effects and work very fast.

Your config look good but what graphic card u want? (For editing video buy Nvidia for CUDA rendering)

 

[Ink]

You will need decent Graphics card for rendering videos in Premiere Pro and other CC apps.

Additional monthly costs for an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription.

 

[YuanJiawj]

Will this config work without graphics card?

maybe in 1 month max i can buy one, i think add Nvidia Geforce Gtx 750ti

All good except Seagate......it really sucks
I had 2 Seagate hard drives in the past and one external....none of them working now. I used them for approx 1 year, then they start to fail me.....
Western Digital is my choice since then.......never failed me and believe me i make an extreme use of my PC for 12-15 hours per day including
designing programs as well as music production ones

Ok, i think than is a good idea change to WD...

I use
Processor: AMD Athlon II X4 641 2,8GhZ
4GB Ram
Toshiba 500GB HDD+ Samsung 1TB external
AMD Radeon 7770HD
and i use Adobe Premiere, Photoshop, After Effects and work very fast.

Your config look good but what graphic card u want? (For editing video buy Nvidia for CUDA rendering)

i think than Nvidia Geforce Gtx 750ti is more than enough for now, i only think use Premiere/AE/ sometimes.

You will need decent Graphics card for rendering videos in Premiere Pro and other CC apps.

Additional monthly costs for an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription.

Nvidia Geforce Gtx 750ti what do u think? as i said before, i think use Premiere Pro/AE only sometimes. well about CC subscrition i've one legal for 2 years more.

 

[Blitz]

Hi, I need cheap and good pc about 300-400 Euros, somebody can help to build it? Parts what i need:
-Pc case
-PSU
-Motherboard
-CPU
-VGA
-HDD
-Cheap CD/DVD reader

 

[EmiLLiaN]

For designing, you need a good graphic card, so spend more money on that @Nitlott.

I assum that your Spanish if you want it in euro, @Blitz.

Pc case: B-Move Kairos 500W
Motherboard: Asrock B85M-HDS
CPU: Intel Core i3-4160 3.6Ghz
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws X DDR3 1866 PC3-14900 4GB 2x2GB CL9
HDD: WD Blue 500GB SATA3
CD/DVD RW: Liteon iHAS124-14

Total Price: 320€ + 7€ (transport) = 327€

 

[JakeXPMan]

All good except Seagate......it really sucks
I had 2 Seagate hard drives in the past and one external....none of them working now. I used them for approx 1 year, then they start to fail me.....

That's odd

I am on a Seagate Hard Drive now, which is (10 yrs old)... and still running same fast/responsive way.
At one point it had just 11% space left, still fine, and back to 88%
It's been used all day-night on peer 2 peer DL's /UL's back in 2005-2007 in praticular.

Maybe its not Seagate's hardware, but whom you bought from? ...

 

[OokamiCreed]

All good except Seagate......it really sucks
I had 2 Seagate hard drives in the past and one external....none of them working now. I used them for approx 1 year, then they start to fail me.....
Western Digital is my choice since then.......never failed me and believe me i make an extreme use of my PC for 12-15 hours per day including
designing programs as well as music production ones

I agree 100% with you here. I have a 250GB Seagate and 250GB Western Digital. The Seagate was the main OS storage but started to report disk read errors even with disk scans being run directly from Seagate Tools. It found nothing wrong but there is something wrong. The thing like to spin down for no reason sometimes and it wasn't even a secondary drive.

So I switch my Western Digital over to master drive and Seagate as a slave drive which is used for media storage (that I have offline storage on but have OneDrive sync everything on it). (For anyone who doesn't know, master and slave drive is a real term. Just pointing that out to avoid any possible misunderstandings). The Seagate has been doing good as a media drive but stalled a lot as a OS drive.

I personally highly recommend Western Digital over any other drive.

 

[Rolo]

For transcoding, you can't beat intel integrated graphics...not even high-end gaming GPUs.

I agree: Seagate turned sour. I've had bad experiences with WD Blue (50% failure rate just outside warranty, 12 drives) but really like my WD Black drives.