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Old Apr 26, 2006 | 12:38 PM
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Default Building a computer: Advice
My parents have asked me to build a computer for their work.

They are professional photographers and this computer will be used mostly for using photoshop and handeling extremely large digital images (I'm not sure, but I think their camera is something like 20 megapixels).

Here is a list of what I am planning on ordering from newegg. Does this look like it would be good for digital photography?


AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ - $460.00
http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16819103546

ASUS A8n32-SLI Delux mobo. - $209.99
http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16813131568

Lian Li PC60USB Case - $99.00
http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16811112022

Antec TruePower 550W Power Supply - $99.99
http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16817103932

eVGA Geforce 7600GT 256mb Video Card - $179.00 + $15 rebate
http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16814130283

Corsair XMS DDR 400 (PC 3200) 4gb(4 x 1gb) - $376.00 + $50 x 2 rebate
http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16820145575

NEC 16x 3550a DVD burner - $35.99
http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16827152060

Linksys PCI Wireless Adapter 802.11b/g - $49.99 + $10 rebate
http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16833124115


I still need to add a hard drive. Any advice? Are the Raptors good? 3gb/s SATA? They already have some large external firewire drives for storing images. This will mostly be to just run programs off of.

I am particularly unsure on the Video Card. Is the 7600GT an overkill since they won't be gaming? It needs to handle large digital images very well.

They will be switching from Macs to a PC because their lab is all PC based.

My parents already have a monitor/keyboard/mouse.
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