PC Build?

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    it's always better to invest more at once - so you'll stay on top for longer.

    what you can do right at the moment is monitor the prices for the "old" ivy bridge processors (3770k) since the new processors (haswell) just came out they will be dropping in price until the sellers run out of stock.

    the ivy bridge processors are only ~5-10% slower than the new ones - so you can easily get through until the next generation or the one after that. i personally have a 3770k, 16gb ram, gtx 680, 840 pro 256gb ssd and i won't buy new gear too soon ;)

    if you're editing a lot of uncompressed data (raw, etc.) then a good big ssd would be the thing to go for because the load is on the drive rather than the cpu.

    you can also go for a raid 0 with 2 hdds (should be at least 7200rpms). but the seek times on those conventional hdds are much higher than on a ssd. so if you're changing tasks, reading - writing, switching sources etc. you will notice the difference - it's about 20-30ms compared to 1-5ms.

    that's a lot to consider but if you're not going pro it shouldn't make too much of a difference. :)
     

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