System build for home video/power house.

[cybermoser]

I am wanting to build a system for close to $1000 with the following in mind.

Main uses: Photography, Video development using Photoshop, Adobe Premier, ect. I want an extremely fast PC (i7 2nd or 3rd gen), maybe 16GB memory and lots of hard drive space, looking for SSD for main C drive then a couple 2TB or larger SATA drives for storage.

Can someone on here recommend some build specs? I really enjoy the system builds around the holiday time and was wondering if anyone on here has built what I am looking for as to give me some ideas of what would be the best hardware for a photographer/video/gamer/home theater server.

 

[PhoenixEnigma]

Filling this out will help a lot.

That said, I'm not sure you're going to get everything you want in your budget. mfenn has a very good starting point here, you might want to take a look at it. With a cheaper case and moving to an H77 motherboard, you might be able to get a 2TB hard drive and the 16GB RAM you had in mind, but the i7 and multiple drives would be a fair bit trickier.

Also remember that's just the bare tower - if you need a Windows license, monitor, or other peripherals/software, that would be an additional cost.

 

[mfenn]

Filling this out will help a lot.

That said, I'm not sure you're going to get everything you want in your budget. mfenn has a very good starting point here, you might want to take a look at it. With a cheaper case and moving to an H77 motherboard, you might be able to get a 2TB hard drive and the 16GB RAM you had in mind, but the i7 and multiple drives would be a fair bit trickier.

Also remember that's just the bare tower - if you need a Windows license, monitor, or other peripherals/software, that would be an additional cost.

:thumbsup: Well said.