Photoshop/CAD spec needed

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Hi there,
Im looking to buy a Photoshop/CAD PC and would like some suggestions on what i should kit it out to be.
My friend who i'll be building it for has £1500 or near that to spend on a machine. His already got 3 monitors/Keyboard & mouse he wants to hook up to the PC.

The main thing im not sure about is the type of graphics card to use for it.

Thanks.
 
The graphics card is relatively unimportant for a graphics PC as I understand it, you just need to make sure it has a fair bit of Ram (~512mb would do). If you've got a specification in mind already you could post it up to see what people think because you don't really need to spend £1500 to get a decent system.

Something like this would probably do for the uses.

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 3650 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail £59.99
(£70.49) £59.99
(£70.49)
Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK) £74.99
(£88.11) £74.99
(£88.11)
Antec P182 Super Midi Tower Case - No PSU (Gun Metal Black) £78.99
(£92.81) £78.99
(£92.81)
Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX (2x2GB) £59.99
(£70.49) £119.98
(£140.98)
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (66I-01939) £59.99
(£70.49) £59.99
(£70.49)
Samsung SH-S203DBEBN 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
(£17.61) £14.99
(£17.61)
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £64.99
(£76.36) £64.99
(£76.36)
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 2.40GHz Guaranteed to run at 3.00GHZ (1333FSB) - Retail £115.99
(£136.29) £115.99
(£136.29)
Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103UJ) £82.99
(£97.51) £331.96
(£390.04)
Sub Total : £921.87
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £20.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £164.99
Total : £1,107.81
 
is this for professionals use?? Also what type of CAD applications are they using, ATI fireGL or a nvidia quadro are advised if this for pro use
 
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