Help fast spec photo edit/game machine

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As title, I want a pc to play eve online and supreme commander 2 amongst other games on multi monitor setup, also wife is pro photographer working with photoshop, so need a machine that flys when photo editing.

Options are

Intel Core i7 or i5
AMD Piledriver will amd do the job as good as i7?

What's best graphics to have ati or Nvidia?

Want a ssd for the OS, large storage drives for data in raid 5 / 10 so prob 3x wd 2tb green

And which OS win 7 or 8?

Budget around 1500

Thinking a dell 2713hm monitor and add another later
 
Monitor wise the dell U2713 will be great. Just keep in mind the 2713hm is a generalized monitor not the "pro calibrated" skew of the ultrasharp screens.

As you have mentioned your wife doing professional photography for a living I would consider one of the ultra sharps designed for color reproduction and at a later date possibly a monitor calibrator device such as a Spyer4Pro massively helps getting your prints exact to your screen.

This is worth checking out for some more details on the screen TFT Central U2713HM

Results from TFT Central for calibration and color reproduction.
No Adobe RGB results as it maxes out at sRGB
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In comparison my U2410 once calibrated with the Spyder4
sRGB results (standard sRGB color in Green triangle / monitor in red)
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sRGB results (Adobe RGB color in lilac triangle / monitor in red)
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Again this always depends on how serious she wants to get into photography and if she intends to create photo's for print.

In term of gaming on the U2410 Its great, not noticed any latency at all and know a lot of members use this screen for gaming.
 
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Thanks :-) but the wife wants a screen equivalent to the 27" imac screen in quality and resolution, and the tftcentral review for the dell ultrasharp 2713h is no good for gaming and has lots of quality issues according to posts on here.
I spent a whole weekend looking at reviews and the like and the best monitors where the 2317 if you get a good one lol or the 970d samsung but the price for that is stupid high.

ANy thoughts on the processors? Amd or i5 or i7? Will they all cope if so I might try the piledriver.
I have 2x 460's will they be ok or upgrade?
 
i7 for me, with plenty of ram,

monitor, try and get one of these (LG 27EA33V 27 inch IPS LED Monitor) , you wont look or need anything else, and at these prices as well, best value for your money you will find, can't link either as i found and bought it else where as OC didn't do it, but they should as they are as good as you can get for price and spec
 
A possibility would be the direct competitor to the Ultrasharps, Asus Pro Art PA279Q. Was shown off at computex and is scheduled for june release but haven't seen it around yet.

Nice resolution too, 2560 x 1440 no idea on gaming performance or pricing however.

http://www.asus.com/News/HrDwMcYKen95l8ov

However if she is just after a monitor similar to the iMacs display you will do great with the U2713hm, its a great looking screen as with all the ultra sharps and if you get any problems dell will come to your house to replace it. The iMacs only display sRGB so you won't be missing anything there compared to them.

I do however highly recommend the spyder4 if you don't mind the slight investment. You would be surprised how off the colors are, generally a warmer redish hue to everything. Normally £130ish but check the usual places as they can be picked up for closer to 60-70 and for that money totally worth it if you are doing color work such as photography or video editing etc.

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If your planning to do quite a bit of lightroom / photoshop work I would suggest going down the Intel route due to hyperthreading. Those applications make great use of the extra cores. An overclocked 4770k would just scream through tasks and a cheeper route that going with the LGA 2011 setup.

Graphics card wise depending on which games you intend to play decides that, newer titles such as Metro Last Light and Bio shock Infinite I would consider upgrading to a gtx 760 or 770 if your budget allows for eve and supreme commander sli'd gtx 460 will play it no problem as it is quite an old title. Wouldn't go the AMD route for graphics because once again Photoshop and Lightroom will make use of the CUDA cores for adding effect and accelerating the workspace.
 
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its a shame I cant see the members market as I hear that the dell 2711 goes for £100ish on there, it would be an ideal starter point.

How would people rate my current setup in my sig?
The motherboard i find is rubbish and no good at overclocking, but all motherboards for the 1366 are no longer for sale as far as I can see, I would love a gigabyte ud3r ver 2 or better really as they seem to be great.
Hence the reason for trying to upgrade on a tight budget.

I would love to change some things on a smaller budget, say parts from others who will be upgrading (so long as they are in good condition) lol

this is all great info guys so many thanks so far :-)
 
I have read some of the reviews and haveread that the ASUS monitors use PMW backlight dimming, I would prefer monitors without this so to reduce headaches
 
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