Advice on home desktop/photo editing build

[Tezmo88]

Hey everyone,

I’m in the process of putting together a build for a new desktop pc for my mum. Use would be primarily for Photoshop CS4 and internet/emails/some sage work. Occasionally she would do some video editing, only of home movies etc.

My main question in regards to a build like this is whether it would be worth using a discrete graphics card? Opinions seem to vary, I was wondering if anyone could help clarify the issue for me please.

Options seem to be going for an I5-3570k with an older cheapish graphics card, or an I5-4670k and attempting to use the built in graphics. Does anyone have any experiences they can share in relation to this?

Other than, planning a standard sort of build with a large amount of RAM. I'll detail a full spec once i figure out what to do with the cpu/graphics card issue

Many thanks in advance for any advice.

Cheers, Terry

[Tezmo88]

anyone any ideas?

[AETAaAS]

I don't use Adobe products much but from what I understand; CUDA acceleration came in CS5 and OpenCL even later than that so a discrete GPU won't help much there. Video editing software can benefit in rendering/encode but that is software dependent (find out if your program supports it). I think I'd go for the 4670k on its own.

[Tezmo88]

Thanks for the input!

[Bonebreaker777]

Agree, if you can, seek a program which can support Intel QuickSync for video editing and go for a i5-4670k. And some memory.