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Looking for a Workhorse for heavy app's use

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gscone

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All i know is I need XP Pro and at least 4gb of ram. My budget is $800. The mobo sound card and video card will suffice. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
 
Quickbooks Customer Mgr
Quicken
AutoCad
Photoshop
Dreamweaver
Illustrator

All app's are generally open all at the same time..

 
AutoCad, I thought that was GPU-accelerated?

Anyways, Photochop and AutoCad are pretty CPU intensive alone, so, I'd say a high-clocked quad would be best.


Q9550 - $320
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16819115041

Asus P5Q - $120
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813131295

2x G.Skill 4GB(2x2gb) RAM - $45 each
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16820231145

WD Black 1TB HDD - $130
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16822136284

Visiontek HD4650 - $100
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814129123

Corsair 550W PSU ~$100
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16817139004

~$50 case, whichever floats your boat on this one

Total: ~ $900, so, over budget, but, it's something to get you started.

Obviously, that quad is the most expensive non-Extreme version, so you could tone that down to something like a Q8200 or Q9300 or Q6600. Go with 4gigs of ram instead of the 8 listed possibly, tone the video card down even more perhaps, and find a cheaper mobo (but I like that one, asus has always given me rock-like stability) maybe grab a smaller HDD too. The PSU choice is based on my 750TX, from corsair, which I love, but you could find a cheaper ~550W too. (like this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16817371002, but actually, the corsair is cheaper after rebate, so it might be a better deal anyways.
 
Go with a quad core.

NEWEGG

PC P&C 610W $55 AR AC
4GB CORSAIR XMS2 DDR2-800 $24 AR
SIGMA ORCA ORCA-B Black/ Silver SECC Steel ATX Mid Tower $15 AR
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3500320AS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive $65

FRYS
AMD Phenom X4 Quad Core Processor 9750 & ECS A740GM-M Motherboard $150

TOTAL- $309
 
If you are running XP 32 bit, you won't be able to use all of your 4GB, let alone more. I suggest either XP Pro x64 or Vista x64. You can use more than 4GB of ram and Photoshop CS4 has 64 bit support so it can use much more memory than older ones.
 
Originally posted by: gscone
Quickbooks Customer Mgr
Quicken
AutoCad
Photoshop
Dreamweaver
Illustrator

All app's are generally open all at the same time..
Click to expand...
So let me get this straight...
You're working with Intuit accounting applications,
While designing CAD projects,
Editing photos and web pages,
And doing graphic design... All at the same time?

You must be one of the most productive people on the planet.
I say "one of the most productive", because you're not quite there yet.

A few more things you could be doing are editing video, giving a Power Point presentation, creating audio tracks and playing Call Of Duty, along with the tasks you have listed about.
😛

 
Originally posted by: Blain
Originally posted by: gscone
Quickbooks Customer Mgr
Quicken
AutoCad
Photoshop
Dreamweaver
Illustrator

All app's are generally open all at the same time..
Click to expand...
So let me get this straight...
You're working with Intuit accounting applications,
While designing CAD projects,
Editing photos and web pages,
And doing graphic design... All at the same time?

You must be one of the most productive people on the planet.
I say "one of the most productive", because you're not quite there yet.

A few more things you could be doing are editing video, giving a Power Point presentation, creating audio tracks and playing Call Of Duty, along with the tasks you have listed about.
😛
Click to expand...

You forgot folding@home. 😉

Seriously though, if you need at least 4GB of RAM you may as well go with Vista 64. It's better supported than XP 64 is.
 
Originally posted by: Blain
Originally posted by: gscone
Quickbooks Customer Mgr
Quicken
AutoCad
Photoshop
Dreamweaver
Illustrator

All app's are generally open all at the same time..
Click to expand...
So let me get this straight...
You're working with Intuit accounting applications,
While designing CAD projects,
Editing photos and web pages,
And doing graphic design... All at the same time?

You must be one of the most productive people on the planet.
I say "one of the most productive", because you're not quite there yet.

A few more things you could be doing are editing video, giving a Power Point presentation, creating audio tracks and playing Call Of Duty, along with the tasks you have listed about.
😛
Click to expand...

I'm not sure what's up with your comment, but I am looking for good advice. Its quite obvious you can't contribute to this thread, so please keep it moving. And for your info- I own multiple business's and need access to all these app's all at once.

 
Originally posted by: gscone
Originally posted by: Blain
Originally posted by: gscone
Quickbooks Customer Mgr
Quicken
AutoCad
Photoshop
Dreamweaver
Illustrator

All app's are generally open all at the same time..
Click to expand...
So let me get this straight...
You're working with Intuit accounting applications,
While designing CAD projects,
Editing photos and web pages,
And doing graphic design... All at the same time?

You must be one of the most productive people on the planet.
I say "one of the most productive", because you're not quite there yet.

A few more things you could be doing are editing video, giving a Power Point presentation, creating audio tracks and playing Call Of Duty, along with the tasks you have listed about.
😛
Click to expand...

I'm not sure what's up with your comment, but I am looking for good advice. Its quite obvious you can't contribute to this thread, so please keep it moving. And for your info- I own multiple business's and need access to all these app's all at once.
Click to expand...

c'mon man, it's a little ridiculous all the stuff you will be doing at once.

and to help, why do you need xp? with all those apps open at once, 8 gigs of ram would seem appropriate and vista 64 would probably be the best OS unless you need XP for some other reason.
 
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