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New rebuild for photography suggestions

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I need honest suggestions from all of you experts on my new rebuild for my photography business. Mostyly Photoshop and business apps running. NO GAMING on this PC.
I already own a LianiLi 6070 case and Antec TPII 550 PSU. I also already have 2 WD Raptor SATA HD's. So I was thinking about Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 Conroe or possibly the 6600 might be plenty and ASUS P5W DH DELUXE or would something like an Asus P5B-E be more reasonable. The areas I need suggestions are for the memory. I want fast memory with out going crazy. I was also thinking about the Matrox PCIe card for about $240, but no one seems to have it in stock. I want to try and keep everthing I need (MD, CPU, memory and Video) under $1200.
Thanks,
 
Why not just get a Pro Tower and be worry free? It's like trying to build a sports car when there's a corvette right there.

(or whichever sports car you like, you all know what I mean)
 
Matrox's claim to fame used to be their impressive DACs, which were useful when using a CRT at very high resolutions and refresh rates. With an LCD that you should certainly be driving with a DVI output, it is safe to assume that - as long as the video card isn't horribly out of spec - all cards will produce the same quality. Thus, save some money and get a low-to-mid range ATI or NVIDIA video card. Avoid the cheapest models with "hypermemory" or similar features - these steal from your RAM and are little better than integrated graphics. An ATI X1600 series or NVIDIA 7300 series should be fine for what you need, and you'll get Vista Aero compatibility if you want it later.
 
The Core 2 Duo is your best choice; the E6600 represents a significant discount from the E6700, so if you need to tighten up the budget in some areas to make room for more in other places (hard drives, RAM, etc.), that's a good place to cut. There's no need to go with expensive overclocking memory; I've not jumped to a DDR2 platform yet, so I'm not going to recommend any specific modules. Any well-known brand should be fine.
 
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