Hello,
Currently I am running a older AMD 64 3000+ system. The motherboard is a k8vse. I bought this system about 3-4 years ago, and at the time it was pretty nice. However, for today standards it is pretty bad.
First off, let me tell you what I am wanting. I have around $300-400 to spend for mb+cpu+mem. I have a nice 450watt power supply and large SATA drive.....I have no desire to play games, but I process RAW images from a Canon and Olympus SLR camera on a daily basis inside Photoshop CS3 and Lightroom. So, I am looking for a setup that will do CS3 well.
I have learned that the E4300 is a excellent chip that is very overclockable, so I am leaning towards it. However, I get really confused on what Memory to buy with this, and what MB. I want a MB that has DVI built in or a cheap video card with DVI (my current card is AGP, and from what I see none of the new boards have agp).
So if you have suggestions, please post them. I am also thinking of switching to Vista Home Premium 64bit (when I get the new mb/cpu so I can take advantage of more ram in the future.
Currently I am running a older AMD 64 3000+ system. The motherboard is a k8vse. I bought this system about 3-4 years ago, and at the time it was pretty nice. However, for today standards it is pretty bad.
First off, let me tell you what I am wanting. I have around $300-400 to spend for mb+cpu+mem. I have a nice 450watt power supply and large SATA drive.....I have no desire to play games, but I process RAW images from a Canon and Olympus SLR camera on a daily basis inside Photoshop CS3 and Lightroom. So, I am looking for a setup that will do CS3 well.
I have learned that the E4300 is a excellent chip that is very overclockable, so I am leaning towards it. However, I get really confused on what Memory to buy with this, and what MB. I want a MB that has DVI built in or a cheap video card with DVI (my current card is AGP, and from what I see none of the new boards have agp).
So if you have suggestions, please post them. I am also thinking of switching to Vista Home Premium 64bit (when I get the new mb/cpu so I can take advantage of more ram in the future.
