Dear Spec Gods, do I have to sacrifice a goat or something to get help or can a new member just ask straight away?
Ahem, anyways. I'm looking to build a new computer, I will not be playing any games on it (unless you count the odd game on a VGA emulator) but I will be using it heavily for Photoshop, Illustrator and those types of programs. I'm only looking for base stuff since I already have a monitor, speakers etc.
While waiting for my account to be activated, I looked around and saw the specs you offered other members for similar budgets. Though the majority of those were for gaming. I've created my own list and I was wondering if you could help me, either by making modifications to it or creating specs of your own that you feel will be better suited for what I want to use it for. I want to buy a good processor now to save me money in case I need to upgrade it later for some thing else and I thought that since Photoshop and stuff love RAM, that 8GB would be good enough (I saw a lot of people here recommending the blue Ripjaw as opposed to the red ones, so I went for those).
(Edited with updated prices and specs)
I'm hoping to run Windows 7 on it, I'm thinking that perhaps a better PSU is needed. If there's anything else that I haven't mentioned that I need to mention that might help you, let me know.
Thank you in advance.
Ahem, anyways. I'm looking to build a new computer, I will not be playing any games on it (unless you count the odd game on a VGA emulator) but I will be using it heavily for Photoshop, Illustrator and those types of programs. I'm only looking for base stuff since I already have a monitor, speakers etc.
While waiting for my account to be activated, I looked around and saw the specs you offered other members for similar budgets. Though the majority of those were for gaming. I've created my own list and I was wondering if you could help me, either by making modifications to it or creating specs of your own that you feel will be better suited for what I want to use it for. I want to buy a good processor now to save me money in case I need to upgrade it later for some thing else and I thought that since Photoshop and stuff love RAM, that 8GB would be good enough (I saw a lot of people here recommending the blue Ripjaw as opposed to the red ones, so I went for those).
(Edited with updated prices and specs)
I'm hoping to run Windows 7 on it, I'm thinking that perhaps a better PSU is needed. If there's anything else that I haven't mentioned that I need to mention that might help you, let me know.
Thank you in advance.
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