Looking to Upgrade My Workstation - Need guidance!

[mukul_chou]

This should be one of your guide


www.tomshardware.com/us

[bob williams]

I will almost definitely PM one or all of you with questions regarding my choices

No, No, No Alex, don't bait us with a good string, then leave us hanging while you jump off in to those PM's [:|]. Actually, I am very interested in hearing what you ended up with and the questions/answers that lead to your decisions; I am fixing to build my next one, so this is all great info for me as well.


Thanks,


Bob

[bob williams]

Alex, et.al, ---Just wanted to see how your new system build was going. Any Recommendations, warning or horror stories? Its been a few years since I have done a complete build; but, you got me motivated to start on my own. So far I have collected:


Intel I7-950 processor


Asus Sabertooth X-58 Motherboard


G-skill 6gig 1600, triple channel memory


what I still need to get:


Case with lots of cooling fans


Power supply---800 watts or better


What I currently have and plan to install in the new build:


2- Western digital HD

[Daniel Browning]

Does anyone see any problems with my planned set up?

Looks good to me, Bob. If it were me, I probably wouldn't bother with the old 250 gig 5400 RPM drives -- I'd save them for external backup drives. (I use a $30 docking station rather than buying enclosures for each drive).

Is there any need to consider two graphics cards, if your not a gamer?

If you use software that takes good avantage of the video card for processing, that would be one reason. It can be a very big deal for video editing (e.g. Adobe Premiere Pro with certain CUDA graphics cards), but I'm not aware of it having a similar benefit on still photo software. (Photoshop does some things with the graphics card, but not enough for it to matter to me.)

[scalesusa]

I see everyone has their own preferences, whatever works for them is right for them.. I built my own pc