Guess what I am doing..

[Golferdude1977]

Well I am gonna build a system and have come up with a list of pieces. Would appreciate you shooting holes in my thoughts and let me know how I can make it better.

I use Adobe Production Premium CS3 and with my P4 3.2 and 3 GB ram, it is slow. I don't do any games just photowork and then make movies/slideshows out of them.

I am planning on OC to 3.2GHz and pushing the Ram also.

Here is my proposed system:

Gigabyte modo GA-P35-DS3R LGA 775
Intel C2Q Q6600 2.4GHz
Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme CPU Cooler
Corsair CMPSU-620HX PSU
4 GB Ram - Corsair Dominator 2GB - DDR2 1066 (PC@8500)
Antec P180B Case
XFX PVT73GUGD3 GeForce 7600GT 256MB PCI Express x16
WD Raptor 150GB Drive - 1
Samsung 500GB 7200 RPM SATA3.0Gb/s HD - 3
LITE-ON 20X DVD+R SATA Burner - 2
Windows XP Home (Selected this as this is what I am running now with no problems)

Right now, I have been looking at Newegg. I looked at Zipzoomfly, NCIXUS, and MWave also. Newegg and Zipzoomfly were about the same. NCIXUS was a little cheaper but I was leary on how long it would take to ship here.

Please comment on what I might be wasting money on or where I might do something different. Of course you know, once I get it then I will be back on OC'ing it.

Thanks...

Jimmy

 

[Golferdude1977]

As I keep reading I am wonering if I need to go to the 1066 memory or not? I will be overclocking it along with the cpu. I am thinking about taking the cpu to 3.4 or so...and I am very new to this and want to push the ram but not sure what is ideal when I push the cpu to 3.4. Any ideas?

Thanks..

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

you might want to check out one of the Quadro cards as they could greatly help rendering. Also, using XP Home will not allow you to utilize 4 gigs of ram.

 

[Golferdude1977]

I know that on XP it won't see all of the 4 GB but is it better to get 3 or get 4 and use 3.5?

I know the Quadro cards are more expensive but do they make that much of a difference? I don't have any experience on using a Quadro card. If you get a Quadro card do you need to cool it or is the P180B case fans good enough for it?

I debated going to XP64 but wasn't sure on how mature it had gotten...

Thanks...

JD