I'm not a gamer....Just don't have time.....but the main work tasks I'll be doing will be working with video and audio. With the village site I'm doing more & more video in addition to stills and I'm doing a little more in the way of custom graphics for the site. I'd like to work more with PhotoShop. I currently use Xara Designer Pro X9 64-bit which is not as powerful but a lot faster & much smaller file size. I'm also using Magix/Xara software for video editing as well as their Music Studio for working with the soundtracks from the video.
I'm also [still] planning to rip all my vinyl to a drive so I'll be working with WAV & FLAC files, too. I'm covered in the audio department with my Audiophile card & Klipsch ProMedias (unless there's a better sound card option in the PCIE department. Audacity seems to do the job without much fuss. And I'm really going to start spending more time with my MIDI piano & Reason.
While I'm sure most of this can be done on my current rig with a good boost in RAM & maybe a new video card, I still would like to take a step up. It's just going to take me a few months to save the dinero. I've already fallen in love with the 24.5" monitors I just procured for the village & maybe something even larger might be within my reach by the time I get around to this. So, without going totally "bleeding edge", what would y'all recommend?
- CPU
- Motherboard
- RAM
- Graphics
Thanks & Go Bills!!!!!!! Squish the fish!!
Jack