Do some research, I found a great deal on 2 tb ssds, Samsung I think. On March 15, 2016 6:41:42 PM PDT, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: >Clearly two schools of thought on custom built vs off the shelf - I >don't really have allegiance to either. I lean towards custom built >because PC's for photo work are kind of a unique breed. > >Off the shelf gaming PC's generally would be fine, but sometimes are >skimpy on memory and often have stuff that I don't need - like super >high end video cards, cooling systems for overclocking, tricked out >cases, etc. But general business class PC's are usually a little >underpowered and weak on video, memory and expandability. I've been >getting custom built machines form the same shop locally since the mid >1990's. I know I can get what I want tailed to my specs. I pay more for > >what I get, but can leave out the stuff I don't want or need so it >balances out. But over the years they have evolved from being a >consumer >retail store to doing more small business IT support / networking, so >I'm not sure what to expect at this time. > > >On 3/15/2016 7:52 PM, John Francis wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 06:55:09PM -0400, Mark C wrote: >>> Yep - I'm looking at a new machine. Stopped by Best Buy but was >unimpressed >>> so I asked a local computer shop for a quote barebones new machine. >I can >>> pull my data drive and relatively new video card out of this box and >use >>> them in the new one. I could use the system drive form this one but >would >>> like to upgrade to a SSD. I'll see what they come up with. >> I'd suggest taking a look at what <your manufacturer of choice> >offers on >> their website. I gave up going full custom getting on for two >decades ago; >> I found that after investing multiple hours of my time I was saving >at best >> a small amount of money (and, generally, getting a worse warranty). >The worst >> thing about the systems is getting rid of the extra crap that gets >installed >> on the system (HP PC dock, I'm looking at you ...), and nowadays you >can get >> rid of most of that if you are careful (and there are various >products that >> can get rid of it for you if something escapes your notice). >> >> Go for a system with an SSD and only the on-board graphics, and you >won't be >> paying extra for things you don't want. Adding an additional data >drive and >> a graphics card is about as easy as hardware upgrades can be. >> >> Admittedly I haven't bought a desktop/deskside system for quite some >time; >> I've been using notebook computers for work, and we're just about to >replace >> the long-in-the-tooth notebook computer my wife uses for various >purposes, >> the most important of which is to run all the household accounting >software. >> Her old system is a 4GB HP-dv7t (bought mainly because it could be >configured >> with two hard drives, so she could snapshot all the financial data >onto the >> other hard drive every time she exited from the program). Nowadays >4GB isn't >> really enough to run Windows 7 Pro, and when I looked at adding more >memory >> I got a nasty shock - DDR2 memory sticks are expensive! I could get >over 16GB >> of DDR3 RAM for what it would cost me to buy an additional 4GB of >DDR2 RAM, >> and I might have to buy all-new RAM to be able to upgrade that system >to 8GB. >> >> While I couldn't find a reasonably-priced system with two hard >drives, I did >> find one with a 1TB hard drive plus a 256GB SSD. With a dual-core i7 >processor >> (quite a bit faster than a 2.5G Core 2 Duo ... :-), 16GB of RAM, >Windows 10, >> and an SSD boot drive, I expect she'll find it significantly faster. >> > > >--- >This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. >https://www.avast.com/antivirus
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