New PC Build?

[Martyn]

Since the death of my pc I've been limited to using my phone, work pc, wife's laptop and a pc built from salvaged parts for photo processing and forum browsing. Building a pc from salvaged parts has given me enough confidence to think I could build a new machine, thus saving money/getting higher spec. Can anyone here offer any advice or wisdom on what the spec should be for a machine for general web browsing, photo editing, maybe the occasional video edit and some not very serious gaming.

 

I'm currently thinking:

 

Midi tower case and cooling fans (already owned)

430 watt power supply (already owned)

AMD Kaveri APU

Asrock mATX motherboard

8 gig ram

1 TB hardrive

240GB SSD

Acer 22" monitor

Windows 8.1  I really begrudge buying this but I need it for Adobe Lightroom

 

 

 

 

[Denis]

Firstly Martyn, up the power supply. I recommend at least 650 watt especially with over 4 Gb of RAM.

Second, Windows 7 runs lightroom5 perfectly.

 Partition the hard drive and designate at least 250gb for the operating System. The rest as a D drive. dont forget, Lightroom keeps its catalogue on your C drive, you cannot make it move (curses Adobe!). With the OS getting larger, you will the need breathing space 

 

My system is kind of similar....

 

OS Name    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Version    6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Other OS Description     Not Available
OS Manufacturer    Microsoft Corporation
System Name    XXXXXXXXXx
Motherboard System Manufacturer    Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model    To be filled by O.E.M.
System Type    x64-based PC
Processor    AMD FX-6350 Six-Core Processor, 3900 Mhz, 3 Core(s), 6 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date    American Megatrends Inc. F1, 08/04/2013
SMBIOS Version    2.7
Windows Directory    C:Windows
System Directory    C:Windowssystem32
Boot Device    DeviceHarddiskVolume1
Locale    United Kingdom
Hardware Abstraction Layer    Version = "6.1.7601.17514"
User Name    XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Installed Physical Memory (RAM)    8.00 GB
Total Physical Memory    7.96 GB
Available Physical Memory    5.43 GB
Total Virtual Memory    15.9 GB
Available Virtual Memory    13.2 GB
Page File Space    7.96 GB
Page File    C:pagefile.sys
 

[Martyn]

Thank you Denis, your input is much appreciated. 

Edited November 29, 2014 by Martyn