good spec for photo editing?

Gunda · 31 Jul 2009 at 12:00

roughly £800 budget what would people recommend? not really got a clue what a pc thats primary use is graphics editing needs? SSD's? lots of ram i'm gona say.

This is just for the box and OS, btw person i'm building this system already has a good monitor. (1600x1200 res)

95thrifles · 31 Jul 2009 at 12:54

afaik its raw processing power you want
RAM prob helps too but I think its the actual CPU thats important, so cos of that done an i7 spec, I wouldnt bother with SSDs, included 2 WD Caviar Blacks which can be put into RAID0 for speed increase. Only included 6 gig of RAM as I reckon it should be enough, though if you prefer could go for 12, drop case back a bit save £20, youve got £10 spare, it'd push you £50 over budget, or drop the 2nd HDD and dont use RAID, all in all I think 6 should be ok and gone for this spec, could always add another 6 later if needed

Gunda · 31 Jul 2009 at 13:55

Thanks for the ideas. Only a couple of issues tho he needs the O/S too, and that mb can't take 12gb in 6 sticks since it only has 4 slots. at work right now but looks like a good start i'll mess about with it later, unless anyone else has the time now

95thrifles · 31 Jul 2009 at 14:13

Gunda said:
Thanks for the ideas. Only a couple of issues tho he needs the O/S too, and that mb can't take 12gb in 6 sticks since it only has 4 slots. at work right now but looks like a good start i'll mess about with it later, unless anyone else has the time now

Oh yeah, I did see about the OS but forgot, well he can use W7RC til it expires next year
And yeah dont know why I said that about RAM, swap board for the Asus P6T SE, same price but with 6 DIMMs, doesnt support SLI but shouldnt be an issue

95thrifles · 31 Jul 2009 at 14:15

Gunda said:
Thanks for the ideas. Only a couple of issues tho he needs the O/S too, and that mb can't take 12gb in 6 sticks since it only has 4 slots. at work right now but looks like a good start i'll mess about with it later, unless anyone else has the time now

Oh yeah I did see about OS, forgot, well he can use W7RC til it expires next year, then buy full version then
I meant to hit buy on the Asus P6TSE board, obv hit one next to it by mistake, lol, its same price so just swap that one in

Nikumba · 31 Jul 2009 at 14:21

If they will be using Adobe CS4 i would swap the ATi card for an nVidia card, as the current models and some earlier ones can accerlate graphics work

Kimbie