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[quote][i]Originally posted by Dom[/i] [quote][i]Originally posted by Russ[/i] whats the pc for? gfx design? buy a mac. if its for games, a q6600 and any gtx is enough. no point wasting 2k imho friend [/quote] I agree with russ, although Adobe on OSX is limited to 3GB (32bit OS) but creating Ram disks and using those for Photoshop scratch disks etc speeds that up! But no offence whittie, it sounds like you're just splashing the cash around. Future proofing doesn't mean buying the current most expensive component! Spend some time, do a little research, shop around and save the cash! Why SLI? No need, you're tailoring the system mainly at graphics so no point in SLI. If you're wanting to do video editing or 3D modelling then you'd be looking at Matrox and Quadro etc anyways. Why are you spending £300 more on a QX9650? Unless you're going to clock the nuts out of it (therefore need water cooling) then i would save the cash and settle for Q9650 instead. If you're going for a Q9650 it's best to stay with an intel chipset, especially for clocking. So look at the P45 or X48 (usually more bells and whistles) chipset board ie: Asus Maximus II Formula Intel P45 etc. 1200W PSU? FPMSL :lol: You could easily get away with a 650 Seagate/Tagan/Corsair for half the price. I'd be surprised if that spec you'd posted would even pull 200-250w on full load! Have a clocked Q6600 @ 3.6, 6 HDDs, clocked 8800GT at max load (cpu burn on all cores, hdtach on all the drives) it pulls 160W. On board sound is alright, but you will notice bleed/noise from the PCI bus (sounds like a dot matrix going if accessing drives etc). And Vista?! Why? XP64 is a lot less resource hungry and for what you're doing, it'll work perfectly well. Also HDDs, i would look at having a TB (possibly external) drive just for backups, smaller quick drive (raptor's raid 0 possibly) for the OS, and then media/storage on other drives as required. Storing the page file on a smaller 36GB raptor or a decent SATA drive will speed things up. If photoshoping is a big thing (handling large 1GB+ images etc), then look at RamDisks (ideally look at 8GB in total for the system and creating a 4GB ramdisk for PS) for photoshop scratch disks - it's the biggest speed increase you'll get. Also, if doing HDR stuff then it's worth moving windows temp files directory to a seperate drive will again increase speed. [Edited on 29-08-2008 by Dom] [/quote]
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