System suggestion

leowyatt · 12-02-2008, 10:10

Hi all,

I've been tasked by someone to spec them a system. Unfortunately for me I've been out of the hardware scene for 4+ years now so have no idea what works well with what anymore

So I will task the amazing people of BD to help my friend build his system. The main use of the PC will be photo editing. So I'm thinking as much RAM as possible would be a good idea. He seems to think he needs RAID in the system as it would help with speed but I don't really think it's needed for what he is using the sytem for. What do you all think?

Right onto budget, he has around £600 for the box and the gubbins as he'll be getting monitors separately. Only main requirements are that the graphics card run 2 monitors, one would be a 24" and the other say a 19".

My thoughts spec-wise was C2D with 4GB of RAM with something like a GeForce 7300GT but that is just a guess.

Help me BD people, you're my only hope

12-02-2008, 10:10	#1
leowyatt Chef extraordinaire Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Infinite Loop Posts: 11,143	System suggestion Hi all, I've been tasked by someone to spec them a system. Unfortunately for me I've been out of the hardware scene for 4+ years now so have no idea what works well with what anymore So I will task the amazing people of BD to help my friend build his system. The main use of the PC will be photo editing. So I'm thinking as much RAM as possible would be a good idea. He seems to think he needs RAID in the system as it would help with speed but I don't really think it's needed for what he is using the sytem for. What do you all think? Right onto budget, he has around £600 for the box and the gubbins as he'll be getting monitors separately. Only main requirements are that the graphics card run 2 monitors, one would be a 24" and the other say a 19". My thoughts spec-wise was C2D with 4GB of RAM with something like a GeForce 7300GT but that is just a guess. Help me BD people, you're my only hope __________________ "Dr Sheldon Cooper FTW!"