Hi Guys,

I need to replace my 2005 HP PC with something 
new and I almost purchased this one:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009T7J9D4/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

This is an Asus which has all the good specs, but it can have 8GB RAM maximum.

Then I did some reading on the web and found that 
some claim that 8GB is not enough for editing video with Premiere.

So I started to look for components for building 
my own system, it would look like this:

motherboard 
<http://www.alternate.nl/html/product/information/pageBuilder.html?className=mainboard&articleId=1003832&kind=pcBuilder>MSI
 
Z77A-GD80
processor 
<http://www.alternate.nl/html/product/information/pageBuilder.html?className=cpu&articleId=965957&kind=pcBuilder>Intel®
 
Core™ i7-3770
Graphics card 
<http://www.alternate.nl/html/product/information/pageBuilder.html?className=graphicscardPCIe&articleId=1012954&kind=pcBuilder>MSI
 
N620GT-MD2GD3/LP
Cooler fan: be quiet! Shadow Rock PRO
RAM 
<http://www.alternate.nl/html/product/information/pageBuilder.html?className=ram&articleId=1011703&kind=pcBuilder>Corsair
 
32 GB DDR3-1600 Quad-Kit
SSD 500GB 
<http://www.alternate.nl/html/product/information/pageBuilder.html?className=harddiskSSD&articleId=1037875&kind=pcBuilder>Samsung
 
MZ-7PD512BW
3TB hard drive Seagate ST3000DM001
Blu-ray 
<http://www.alternate.nl/html/product/information/pageBuilder.html?className=bdr&articleId=943604&kind=pcBuilder>LG
 
BH10LS38
Power supply 
<http://www.alternate.nl/html/product/information/pageBuilder.html?className=powerSupply&articleId=1012052&kind=pcBuilder>be
 
quiet! Dark Power Pro 10 550W
case 
<http://www.alternate.nl/html/product/information/pageBuilder.html?className=pccase&articleId=942558&kind=pcBuilder>Antec
 
Performance One P-280
OS Windows8 Pro 64bit

All very nice but this set will cost me 2000 euro 
which is 3 times the price of the Asus computer.

The MSI motherboard has a Firewire and 
Thunderbolt connector which is nice but not 
really neccessary (I can also transfer files from 
my Apple to my PC over my network) and the MSI 
has tons of PCI connectors which I'll never use, 
so basically I'm only buying this set because I 
want more than 8GB RAM. Having tons of RAM and 
SSD is nice and everything will work a bit faster 
but I'm getting an old farm and with the age, 
comes patience, I don't mind having to wait 30 
minutes for a video to render, I can just do 
something else in the meantime, or sit outside 
staring at my trees while enjoying a beer or coffee.

So my question to you guys is... would I be 
allright with this cheaper Asus for the next 3 
years, able to work with Photoshop and Premiere 
in CS5? That's the version I'll stick with or a 
while. Is 8GB enough RAM or not? Another option I 
have is to buy the Asus now and replace it's 
motherboard with one that can have 16GB RAM. 
Strangely all the Asus motherboards that have the 
same chipset as this PC and can be bought 
individually can have 16GB of RAM so the 
motherboard used in this PC must be a very exotic 
one, or crippled on purpose, but those 
alternative Asus motherboards cost less than 100 euros.

Thanks,

Rieni 

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