khofo wrotesorry i didn't read all the posts but this computer is not great for graphic design because the RAM is just below the average U need 16 GB for mid range image rendering and the graphic card is also bad you need a 2 GB VGA (not in crossfire or SLI cz most software won't support it and use 1 card) and also 1 TB hard disk is bad for the simple reason that nowadays all HDD's have approx the same prices so if you replace it with a 4 TB HDD it won't cost a lot more so do it because you need space to store your work I even suggest you to buy another 1 TB HDD (or SSD way faster for operating system) as a scratch disk. there is lot of videos on YouTube explaining what parts you need as a Graphic designer go check out because now your PC is great for amateurs not professionals that will make money with it.
Remember that this PC is your money source so the best it is the more smoothly and effort free you will work and be more productive
You care to explain how components having higher capacity memory will make things go faster? :)
The rig does have 16GB of RAM, which is quite overkill for anything. Even professional work. ( I have clients who are jewelry designers and render a few computers all at once, they never get passed 8gigs) But it depends on what you're rendering ofc, some might need the extra RAM, but very very few people need more than 16GB.
2GB "VGA" (It's not called VGA anymore, it's called a graphics card, VGA was the only interface around back in the 90's so the card's name was a VGA card, but now it's called a graphics card) anyway, the graphics memory doesn't effect things much, it's not like he's rendering anything that needs a lot of memory, the rendering is done by processors and not memory, so the least thing the focus on is memory. If you even have a 2 or 3GB graphics VRAM and a slow GPU, that VRAM will be useless.
Any type of memory or anything that has capacity, does not effect performance, they're just there to store the things that are open. If you have a 3970X with 2GB RAM, and an identical rig with 8GB of RAM, and you only use 1GB on both, then both will have identical performance.
All HDD's have the same prices? Really now..let's see, a 500GB HDD costs $57+VAT, a 1TB costs 90+VAT a 4TB costs 199+VAT, and there are tons of types of hard drives, like performance, regular or green or enterprise level drives. If he gets a 4TB drive (Which is only available in 5900RPM in the Lebanese market and is a green drive) He will face nothing but problems like hang ups,lock ups, slow loading speeds and lots of more issues. The hard drive capacity has absolutely
nothing to do with performance. His best bet is to get a WD Black drive, for the best performance. But since he's on a budget, the Seagate drive is the next best thing and is way cheaper.
An SSD is never to be used a scratch disk. If you use an SSD as a scratch disk, it will be a fried potato within a few months. An SSD is only to be used to load software faster, it is never to be used as a drive where lots of data is written and deleted on it.
ever The only reason to get an SSD is to load his programs faster.
YouTube and forums are the worse and most unreliable source of information you can possibly get.
His computer is completely perfect. Unless he needs any OpenGL or CUDA, he can use any graphics card he wants.
