Memory & Motherboard upgarde needed for Graphic work.

[Satish]

Hello

I kneel benevolently at the greater wisdom of the overclockers community. I need some advice on a upgrade. I work in Graphic Design quite often working with ginormous (not a real word but should be) Photoshop & Illustrator files. Unfortunately 4gb of DDR2 doesn’t seem to be cutting it. My Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD3P motherboard only supports DDR2 Ram and i feel its about time to hit some DDR3!

So I’m going to need a new motherboard & Ram, I currently have a ATI Radeon HD 5850 card and a AMD Phenom II X4 955 3.2GHz. I don’t believe I need to upgrade these. I was thinking of going for 16gb’s of DDR3. I don’t mind spending a few bob if its worth it. I will need a AMD motherboard to go with it too.

With regards to other pc functions all I care about is that I can play Battlefield 3 at 1920*1080 with good fps and decent graphics.

Hmm thinking about it, i could be tempted to upgrade the CPU if its worth it.

Also thinking of getting a SSD and putting my most used applications & OS on it. Would it be worth it?

Cheers (advanced) for any recomendations!

 

[Satish]

Thanks for the reply Orcvader

Between upgrades i get completely out of touch with latest PC Tech News. I had no idea about Bulldozer. It seems as though it has been constantly getting delayed. I think i will sit on that for a while and just go for the SSD. I'm trying to work out if i really need the 128gb. But i think i'll cave in and go for it anyway.

As i'm not 100% committed to a going AMD at the moment i'll wait till next month before getting the motherboard/ram and possible CPU.

 

[Satish]

Yup i went for the 128GB Going to stick the OS on it and use it as the scratch disk for Photoshop/Illustrator etc. I decided to go all out 2600k, the motherboard you recommended, 16GB Ram and a Artic Cooler Freezer 7 Pro. Future Proofing myself for the possibility of hyperhthreading being taken advantage in the apps i use. Can't wait!