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Building a New PC, Need Some Advice

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blove145

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Primarily i would like to build a PC to run Photoshop efficiently as possible. I also do alot of photography work so would like a grafix card that can do dual screen. Beyond that. I do like to watch movies on my PC and play video games. So far i plan to build starting with:

ASUS P5B Deluxe/WiFi-AP LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775

I would like to keep my old mid tower.

If you have other mobo suggestions too thats no problem.

I really appreciate it.
Thanks in advance
 
If you want to future proof yourself, I would go with a P35 chipset board that will support quads and 45nm cpu's when they get here. That processor is great, but be aware quad cores are dropping on july 22nd, and I think photoshop would like 2 extra cores.

Ram: ddr2-800 is hot right now, go get a pair of 2gb sticks

video: 8800gts 640mb because of the dual screens.
 
less than 1,000...trOver, any idea how much the quads will cost when they are released? I agree photoshop would really like the 2 extra cores but for me it depends on the cost. And I ran a search on newegg for the 8800 but it came up with quite a few similar cards and i dont really know the difference. if anyone can help me out with which i should get, please let me know. thanks
 
Originally posted by: blove145
less than 1,000...trOver, any idea how much the quads will cost when they are released? I agree photoshop would really like the 2 extra cores but for me it depends on the cost. And I ran a search on newegg for the 8800 but it came up with quite a few similar cards and i dont really know the difference. if anyone can help me out with which i should get, please let me know. thanks
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the video cards tough.. id say get the 8800gts with the 640mb memory, since you'll definitely use it.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814130071
 
PM answered. 8800 series includes 8800gts (comes in 320mb and 640mb flavours) and the GTX. The gts is nice because your not paying a premium for top of the line, and it still peforms very well. I would still reccomend the 640, although with a 1 grand budget its a little hard.

~266 for cpu, ~160 for mobo, ~200 for ram, and ~350 (640mb) videocard is getting up there. (~$975)

If you went with the 320mb, you could leave some more room for harddrives, powersupply, and dvd drives.

I assume the $1000 budget doesnt include the monitors?
 
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