photography build

[phillips950]

hello. first of all thanks for anyhelp which people can give^^.

im a photographer.photoshop and massive amounts of data are what i mainly deal with but i am a avid gamer, wow in my spare time. i am not very clear on what system would be best suited. ive heard lots of different things looking at these forums.
do i need a huge graphics card?
whats best storage situation ive heard about raid and so on but am unsure. i apologise for my basic knowledge in computers^^
which build would be best? whether custom or store bought. i have around 1500 pound ^^

cheers guys and gals^^

 

[Kennysevenfold]

Do you need, monitor/keyboard/mouse/speakers/OS

 

[RJC]

Will you require monitor, keyboard and mouse , also will you need large storage space.

 

[phillips950]

will need large storage and wont need mouse or keyboard or monitor. sorry forgot to add ^^

 

[denyerec]

With £1500 you should be able to make a monster... *jealous* I use lightroom a lot, and it eats RAM and processor cores. The more cores, the more things you can set it doing at once, I read somewhere a recommendation for 2gb per core, so 8Gb and a Quad would be a good start.

If you're looking for monitors and are serious about the photography, be very discerning and try and find examples of people who've calibrated the monitors you're looking at. I went with an Eizo S2411w in the end, bit of a compromise of cost vs quality, but it's been fantastic so far and is perfect for games, so don't get caught up on responsetimes when it comes to displays, any monitor made in the last 2 years will be fine, focus on the blacklevels and the colour accuracy.

 

[Guzzidom]

Couple of big sata's raided for security at least 16mb cache, as much ram as you can afford (photoshop doesn't really care how fast it is), a multi core processor and a budget graphics card (PS is 2D not 3D so it doesn't really matter, but initial drawing is shown to be marginally faster,and I mean marginally with DDR3 and above, you wouldn't notice though), a £50 card would be fine.

Sorry not to be exact, but I would need to know your budget, whether you require system silence, firewire, SFF, multiple monitor output etc.

Sorry, my bad, I can see you have £1500.

Will you be wishing to do anything else with it, a 4 head Matrox graphics card may be great for 4 pro monitors but it's bum gravy with a game.

 

[Kennysevenfold]

My Go, 320Gig sammy for Os and Games, 2 x 1TB sammy's for Raid storage, 12Gigs of ram Yadda Yadda


Product Name Qty Price Line Total

Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - OEM + World In Conflict PC Game £199.99
(£173.90) £199.99
(£173.90)

Asus P6T Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £169.99
(£147.82) £169.99
(£147.82)

XFX ATI Radeon HD 4890 XT 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (Includes Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.) £154.99
(£134.77) £154.99
(£134.77)

Lian-Li PC-A70B Aluminium Tower Case - Black (No PSU) £145.99
(£126.95) £145.99
(£126.95)

Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 64-Bit - OEM (66R-02034) £142.99
(£124.34) £142.99
(£124.34)

Pioneer BDR-203BK 8x BluRay-RW/DVD±RW Serial ATA Dual Layer Drive - OEM £136.99
(£119.12) £136.99
(£119.12)

Be Quiet! Dark Power Pro 750W ATX2.2 Modular SLi Compliant Power Supply £120.99
(£105.21) £120.99
(£105.21)

Patriot Viper 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600MHz) Low Latency Tri-Channel (PVT36G1600LLK) £75.99
(£66.08) £151.98
(£132.16)

Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103UJ) £66.99
(£58.25) £133.98
(£116.50)

Noctua NH-U12P SE1366 CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366) £57.99
(£50.43) £57.99
(£50.43)

Samsung SpinPoint F1 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD322HJ) £34.99
(£30.43) £34.99
(£30.43)

Pioneer DVR-217FBK 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer LabelFlash ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
(£15.64) £17.99
(£15.64) Sub Total : £1,277.27 Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £13.75 VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £193.65 Total : £1,484.67

 

[phillips950]

comp would need to be on 24/7 so would need it to be silent and efficent. would i be best of with a comp like this and upgrading certain parts?
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-065-OE4

 

[RJC]

Average build:

Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail + World In Conflict PC Game £208.99
(£181.73) £208.99
(£181.73)

Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £203.99
(£177.38) £203.99
(£177.38)

XFX ATI Radeon HD 4890 XT 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (Includes Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.) £154.99
(£134.77) £309.98
(£269.54)

PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad-Crossfire PCI-E 750W Power Supply £83.98
(£73.03) £83.98
(£73.03)

Patriot Viper 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600MHz) Low Latency Tri-Channel (PVT36G1600LLK) £75.99
(£66.08) £75.99
(£66.08)

Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (WD1001FALS) £70.99
(£61.73) £141.98
(£123.46)

Lian-Li PC-7B PLUS II Aluminium Midi-Tower Case - Black (No PSU) £68.99
(£59.99) £68.99
(£59.99)

Samsung SpinPoint F1 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD322HJ) £34.99
(£30.43) £34.99
(£30.43)

Titan TTC-NK85TZ Fenrir CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/LGA775/LGA1366) £33.34
(£28.99) £33.34
(£28.99)

Pioneer DVR-216DBK 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
(£15.64) £17.99
(£15.64) Sub Total : £1,026.27 Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £13.75 VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £156.00 Total : £1,196.02

 

[phillips950]

cheers for all the quick replies. that build above sounds a little complex to me lol. i wul have it put tgether anyways by someone else.
silly question is a solid state drive so much better thn a regualaqr?

 

[Kennysevenfold]

is a solid state drive so much better thn a regualaqr?

i wouldnt say its quite worth it, Load your OS on a Sammy 320Gig sata II and you will be fine