This may be long, so I'll apologize in advance for the wall of text.
I'm planning to build a proper workstation. Years of toiling with my Pentium G630-based computer rendered me a changed man. Now that I went to full-time employment as a remote designer for an overseas design firm a reorganization of my workspace is in order. Starting with my PC.
It's been a while since I built a new system so I don't know the latest in the consumer side of things like pricing and value vs. performance. It's a good thing that I started to look around on the Internet and stumbled at Tek Syndicate. So I'm taking this chance to ask you guys about your excellent opinions regarding my plans (BTW, I'm working around a 90,000-peso [roughly US$ 2,000] budget):
1. I'm sticking with Intel for my build, as I have good experience with that system for a very long time. The problem that I have is what GPU should I use. I use Adobe products, mainly Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and After Effects, for my work and I would like to take advantage of GPU acceleration once I switch to Creative Cloud. I edit 1080p stuff, but future 4K editing capability would be nice. Also, I plan to poke around with 3D once I get a hang of Blender. Is CUDA really better than OpenCL in terms of acceleration and render times? Any recommendations for a graphics card on both sides of the fence? (No Quadro/FirePro, please, as I still plan on playing games and doing mainstream stuff on this PC)
2. Is it a good time to invest in a system that supports DDR4 memory or should I stay in DDR3? I don't plan on upgrading further once I'm done.
3. Any displays that you can recommend? I'm very keen on Asus' ProArt line but if you can recommend a brand that I can purchase here in the Philippines (or, at least, ship in a decent price) that would be great.
4. Air cooling or water cooling? I will admit: I have no experience in watercooling a PC so I'm a bit hesitant, but I need to wrap my head around that idea since I'll be using this PC at full throttle almost everyday. I plan on getting a Core i7 (Xeons are hard to come by in this country, for some reason) and I'm worried about heat and all that. I'm not overclocking anything, BTW.
5. Any bad experience with Samsung's SSDs? I plan on getting the 250 GB 840 Evo as it is on sale right now.
I hope you guys can help me with this one. Thanks! :)