Computer for Photography (Photoshop/Lightoom Use).

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I was thinking of building the following for Photography (Photoshop/Lightroom) use, but one of the motherboard reviews says: This board -WILL NOT- boot with 4x 1gb memory sticks of the double-sided type (which is practically all memory around these days) much to my distress. The only other option is to try to find 4x single-sided sticks or stay with 2x double-sided.

Are there any other suggestions?
G.Skill 4GB DDR2 PQ PC2-8000C5 (2x2GB) CAS5 Dual Channel Kit (F2-8000CL5D-4GBPQ) £88.11

Gigabyte GA-P31-DS3L Intel P31 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £46.99

Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 2.66GHz (1333FSB) - Retail £117.49

Antec NSK 4480 Mini Tower Case (Silver) - 380W Earth Watts PSU £52.86

Samsung SpinPoint T 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD501LJ)
£57.66

HIS ATI Radeon HD 3450 Silence 256MB DDR2 TV-Out/DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail £32.89

Samsung SH-S203PBEBN 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM 19.96

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk (66I-01939) £70.49

Total: £486.45

Also would the Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail be a better choice?

Thanks

Martin
 
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PS regarding software and drivers for hardware, make sure go to the manufactures web site and check to see if u can download drivers for vista 64 bit and check web site for software compatibility, before making the windows purchase.
 
I was thinking of building the following for Photography (Photoshop/Lightroom) use, but one of the motherboard reviews says: This board -WILL NOT- boot with 4x 1gb memory sticks of the double-sided type (which is practically all memory around these days) much to my distress. The only other option is to try to find 4x single-sided sticks or stay with 2x double-sided.

Are there any other suggestions?
G.Skill 4GB DDR2 PQ PC2-8000C5 (2x2GB) CAS5 Dual Channel Kit (F2-8000CL5D-4GBPQ) £88.11

Gigabyte GA-P31-DS3L Intel P31 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £46.99

Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 2.66GHz (1333FSB) - Retail £117.49

Antec NSK 4480 Mini Tower Case (Silver) - 380W Earth Watts PSU £52.86

Samsung SpinPoint T 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD501LJ)
£57.66

HIS ATI Radeon HD 3450 Silence 256MB DDR2 TV-Out/DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail £32.89

Samsung SH-S203PBEBN 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM 19.96

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk (66I-01939) £70.49

Total: £486.45

Also would the Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail be a better choice?

Thanks

Martin

Quad cores are significantly better.

Theres a thread in the photography forum about Photoshop filter times. Please take a look there before purchasing anything.

Can I also reccomend a decent screen + hardware calibration as well.

sid
 
Does anyone have a comment on the memory issue?

One reviewer says "This board -WILL NOT- boot with 4x 1gb memory sticks of the double-sided type (which is practically all memory around these days) much to my distress. The only other option is to try to find 4x single-sided sticks or stay with 2x double-sided."

Thanks for your help.

Martin
 
Photoshop also runs better on a seperate physical drive to the OS. Might be worth getting a second cheap small 7200rpm disk for it?
 
Photoshop also runs better on a seperate physical drive to the OS. Might be worth getting a second cheap small 7200rpm disk for it?

is this actually true still? I have a backup drive (250gb SATA) sat in my system, worth moving photoshop onto that?
 
Regarding the 3450, don't get it, other than having double the memory than my previous 9200se (AGP, in my old system), it doesn't seem any faster or more powerfull at all. Bump it up to at least a 3650, or even a 3850, I'd also get a 512mb version instead of 256mb aswell.
 
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