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Last evening as I was working on my computer I began getting messages on the screen that my hard drive was going to fail and that I should save all work immediately to other storage because of imminent failure. Okay, I can believe it. It's 4 years old and I've certainly put it through its paces because I do a lot of photography work (my hobby) and the computer is rarely turned off if I am home (and as a retiree, I am home quite a bit).
It sort emphasizes gaming, which I don't do, but with the more sophisticated graphics work that I do, that would seem useful. Or, what am I not understanding?
Please don't start on the the MAC/Apple brand stuff. NOT interested.
I'm interested in knowing why this computer would not be perfectly suitable for photography work. I happen to use Corel programs along with GIMP for my photo work.
It sort emphasizes gaming, which I don't do, but with the more sophisticated graphics work that I do, that would seem useful. Or, what am I not understanding?
Unless the photography program is utilizing the GPU on the graphics card you'll gain no benefit from gaming computer. You'll have to look to see if the specific application you are using can.
Some video editors and other high CPU application have been using them especially if there is any 3-D rendering going on.
Other than the cost, no. They are listing that card at $300 on different sites. You may never utilize it. You can dump that into more CPU, SSD... which is something you will use.
Other than the cost, no. They are listing that card at $300 on different sites. You may never utilize it. You can dump that into more CPU, SSD... which is something you will use.
I'm taking your advice. I am sticking with HP, but am beefing up a ENVY 700qe Desktop PC
Thanks so much for your advice...very much appreciated!
Agree 100% with Coalman. RAM would be most important for a "Photography pc".
Having 30 photos open each at 12MB is going to use RAM more then anything, even onboard RAM in a video card.
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