building a semi gaming desktop

[KopiTea]

would prefer asus motherboard i7, no mouse and keyboard and monitor.

budget: 1.4k

 

[nippp0n]

What is the purpose of this desktop beside gaming? Video/photo editing as well?

 

[KopiTea]

What is the purpose of this desktop beside gaming? Video/photo editing as well?

photo editing.

 

[royfrosty]

RAW photos editing? Or just normal jpeg editing?

Do you store tons of RAW photos?

All this have to take into considerations before we can give you a recommendations.

 

[KopiTea]

RAW photos editing? Or just normal jpeg editing?

Do you store tons of RAW photos?

All this have to take into considerations before we can give you a recommendations.

raw and jpeg. but mostly is jpeg

 

[royfrosty]

MSI B85m G43 + i7-4770 ~ $487
Gskills Ripjaws 2x8gb kit ~ $173
Seagate 2tb ~ $113
Plextor m5s 128gb ~ $139
Leadtek GTX660 2gb ~ $273
FSP Hexa 500W ~ $58
Sharkoon MS140 ~ $54
Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit ~ $115
Samsung ODD ~ $21 (Optional)

Total $1412 w/o ODD. Ask for more discount to meet your budget.

I would recommend the WD Black if you say that you had more RAW photos rather than jpeg. But in this case you mentioned that you have more jpeg than RAW. The Seagate 2tb would suffice your needs.

 

[wuweiz]

Anyway, if ya working a lot on photoshop, better partition ur hdd to divert ps writing there also.

Something I came across recently. Just sharing. So ur SSD will last longer.