Photography/Gaming Rig help!

[x3nogear]

Dear Shifus,

I've been reading up but still am very confused. My main focus is heavy photography work with occasional gaming for games like LOL and titanfall etc.

Some say invest in RAMs and CPU. Some say CPU won't help in photoshop stuff. Also, would 2x8gb ddr3 ram work?

My budget is around 2k sgd

Things I already have.
1) Screen
2) kb+mouse
3) Win 7 Pro

I would like to seek advise on what should I be looking at? TIA

 

[royfrosty]

If you are focusing more on photoshop works. Invest more on both cpu and a set of 16gb rams.

Go for larger HDD size as pictures on RAW will tend to be too big. Unless you are not gonna do anything with RAW pics.

2k

MSI B85M G43 + i7-4790 ~ $488
Kingston HyperX 1600mhz 2x8gb kit ~ $210
WD Purple AV 2tb ~ $124
Crucial mx100 256gb ~ $152
MSI GTX780 3gb Twin Frozr ~ $715
Superflower HX600 600w 80+ Gold Semi Modular PSU ~ $108
Sharkoon BD28 ~ $73
LG DVD Drive ~ $21

Total ~ $1891. Buy at tradepac. DIY

Optional alternative GPU, Powercolor r9 290x PCS+ ~ $688, performs slightly better than the 780 but a little hotter.

 

[ragnarok95]

One ssd as your main and photoshop software. Another ssd for scape disk. Just get a lower end one for that.