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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rocketman122" data-source="post: 286449" data-attributes="member: 14443">ram is important and 8gb is more than enough. think of ram like a work table. the more table space the more papers you can place on the table and have enough things running at the same time. small table and everything youll do will have you swapping things with the HDD as a scratch disk and the HDD is quite slow compared to everyhting else in the PC. basically the slowest component there..even for video editing 8gb is enough to start with. you can always get another 8gb later when the prices come down a bit. Like I said, SSD will be the most important and bigegst improvement. you can put all your software there and even files you need to edit. but 120GB isnt a lot so edit the pics you need then move them back to the HDD for archive or burn them to DVD media. just run trim once in a while to keep the ssd at peak performance because writing rewriting slows down its performance and running trim keeps it running top speed. I wont talk about the processor. thats an AMD vs intel discussion. but even an old first gen i7 will be lightning fast. I do highly suggest an entry gpu like a gtx 650 or even a 2nd hand gtx 550/560 because each adobe software version can take advantage of them more and more and doesnt use the processor only. every version has had benefits for editing. and if you plan on video editing in premiere, it can use the cuda cores for fast renders. A motherboard with sats 3 connections and USB 3.0 is what youll need. get one with 3 years warranty. how comfortable are you assembling a pc? installing software (os, apps) troubleshooting?</blockquote>

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