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02/04/2014 01:10:44 AM · #1
I am having a pc built from scratch and have a couple of questions. Firstly, how much demand is the video card going to have? The techies who'll put the computer together say a regular 1GB Geforce card will suffice as most of the load is taken by the processor (Intel i5). Second is drives - when I work with video I know that keeping software on one physical drive and the files in work on the other is considered a better practice. Does the same apply to images or is it not too critical and I can have just one large drive, with or without partitions? Finally, is there anything in favour of SSDs apart from their quick boot-up, which is not really important for a desktop computer? Size/cost-wise don't seem to be such a good buy and I've seen at least one catastrophic failure of an ssd on a modern laptop to be wary of them. Thank you.
02/04/2014 02:24:58 AM · #2
Don't have first hand experience, so these may or may not be a good option. Maybe someone else can chime in. But the I5 has a pretty decent video card built into the CPU. And I'm pretty sure that you can set some tasks to use the GPU instead of the CPU on the I5 for better performance. Not sure how that would work for heavy photo editing though.

There's also SSHD drives you can buy. Larger size, not quite the performance boost of a pure SSD but not much more expensive than a standard drive.

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