06-11-15, 01:41 PM
I wouldn't bother with an SSD to be honest. We build AAA video games for PS4/XB1/PC etc and our PC's are pretty cutting edge but we don't bother with SSD drives due to reliability and they just don't offer any real performance other than load times but HDD load times are hardly a problem especially for a home machine.
If your not doing very large file edits and/or playing the latest games then pretty much anything will do. I have an old laptop I occasionally use at home and that can run Photoshop CS6 with 4k images just fine. I think its an 2.0ghz intel duo with 2 gig ram and the intel on board gfx so waaay inferiour to your current machine. Win 10 is also much easier on hardware so if your moving to that it will give you a minor boost.
Your current PC spec looks fine for what you say you want to use it for, maybe it just needs a good cleanup, maybe a new gfx card and hdd, fresh install of windows etc Even modern games don't tax the CPU much anymore its all on the GFX card really - most photo editing software use the gfx card nowadays. We occasionally get a batch of different spec PC's from dell etc and without question the biggest performance factor is GFX card (for games) CPU makes little difference and anything with over 8G+ is more or less the same be that 8GB or 16GB.
If your not doing very large file edits and/or playing the latest games then pretty much anything will do. I have an old laptop I occasionally use at home and that can run Photoshop CS6 with 4k images just fine. I think its an 2.0ghz intel duo with 2 gig ram and the intel on board gfx so waaay inferiour to your current machine. Win 10 is also much easier on hardware so if your moving to that it will give you a minor boost.
Your current PC spec looks fine for what you say you want to use it for, maybe it just needs a good cleanup, maybe a new gfx card and hdd, fresh install of windows etc Even modern games don't tax the CPU much anymore its all on the GFX card really - most photo editing software use the gfx card nowadays. We occasionally get a batch of different spec PC's from dell etc and without question the biggest performance factor is GFX card (for games) CPU makes little difference and anything with over 8G+ is more or less the same be that 8GB or 16GB.
Intentionally left blank