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Hello everyone!
and Seasons greetings!

I'm thinking of putting together a new PC and I don't know what type of specs would suit me best.
Here's what I usually do with my PC:

1 : To be honest, it's web browsing. But I want to be able to play 4k video with now stutter.
2: Photoediting, graphics design (vector graphics like inkscape), desktop publishing
3: 3D modeling: I don't depend on graphics editing and 3D modeling professionally but I do find myself using these apps quite often.
The main problem i have with 3D modeling on my current PC is very long render times.
4: video editing: again, not regularly but on and off. I dont need to be able to edit super high resolution video.. just 1080p should be enough.
5: gaming: I'm not an avid gamer but i do use a lot of sims (flightgear, dirt rally) and the occasional RTS and i want decent (>60 FPS) frame rates.

Finally of couse the budget: I'm looking to keep it under 950 $ if possible.

I'm looking for broad suggestions. For example, should I spend more on a multicore processor or more on a graphics card? or RAM?

Any help is appreciated. Thank you! :D

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If I were building today I'd look at PCMR https://www.reddit.com/r/PCMasterRace/wiki/builds for the basic machine (there's Intel and AMD builds.) Then because you want to play UHD 4K video I'd tweak those up to say at least the RTX 2060. Why?
https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/9qeu7f/gtx_1060_6gb_watching_4k_movies/

Another thing is that I'd never build such with a HDD boot drive. Stick with 240 or more GB SSD.

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