I was looking at new computers at Dell. I use Photoshop every day for Rapture Forums. I think my current graphics card in this old Dell XPS 8700 is a AMD Radeon HD 7500 graphics card.
My son plays online games and all of those kind of things. I don't play video games and have no interest in them. I just use Photoshop for editing and creating graphics. If I did anything with video I might look at video editing, etc. for Rapture Forums. But I don't have any concrete plans for that at this point. Just something I've thought a little about but probably won't go there.
Anyway, Dell seems to use most these graphic cards the most in their computers (listing from low end to high end):
1. Intel® UHD Graphics 750 (630 and 730 series as well) with shared graphics memory.
2. NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1660 SUPER™ 6GB GDDR6
3. NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1660 Ti 6GB GDDR6
4. NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 3060 Ti™ 8GB GDDR6
Are there any other Photoshop users on here that could give any advice on whether there is any need to spend extra money for these higher graphic cards?
Also, another area I am stuck on is the storage drives.
This old computer only has a 1TB SATA 7200rpm SATA single drive. I don't remember back then but it seems that these days the dual drives are all the rage. There seems to be regular SSD and NVMe SSD drives. I'm ready to ditch the old SATA drives.
But I notice that a lot of configurations come with like a say 512GB SSD + maybe a 1TB SATA backup or storage drive.
I'm thinking the NVMe is better or faster than the regular SSD drives? Is that right or what? Anyone have any experience with these two types of drives?
I'm wondering if I need a dual drive one for the regular computer and one for the storage or backup? They do have options for just having a single drive on the computer. I use a backup service now (Acronis) for backing up my computer.
Anyone have any advice for me?
My son plays online games and all of those kind of things. I don't play video games and have no interest in them. I just use Photoshop for editing and creating graphics. If I did anything with video I might look at video editing, etc. for Rapture Forums. But I don't have any concrete plans for that at this point. Just something I've thought a little about but probably won't go there.
Anyway, Dell seems to use most these graphic cards the most in their computers (listing from low end to high end):
1. Intel® UHD Graphics 750 (630 and 730 series as well) with shared graphics memory.
2. NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1660 SUPER™ 6GB GDDR6
3. NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1660 Ti 6GB GDDR6
4. NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 3060 Ti™ 8GB GDDR6
Are there any other Photoshop users on here that could give any advice on whether there is any need to spend extra money for these higher graphic cards?
Also, another area I am stuck on is the storage drives.
This old computer only has a 1TB SATA 7200rpm SATA single drive. I don't remember back then but it seems that these days the dual drives are all the rage. There seems to be regular SSD and NVMe SSD drives. I'm ready to ditch the old SATA drives.
But I notice that a lot of configurations come with like a say 512GB SSD + maybe a 1TB SATA backup or storage drive.
I'm thinking the NVMe is better or faster than the regular SSD drives? Is that right or what? Anyone have any experience with these two types of drives?
I'm wondering if I need a dual drive one for the regular computer and one for the storage or backup? They do have options for just having a single drive on the computer. I use a backup service now (Acronis) for backing up my computer.
Anyone have any advice for me?