Hi all I am charged with upgrading my Wife's PC. She is a photographer and uses Photoshop a lot and the Nikon D200. So files are roughly 16 mb each.
Question I have is money is an object but we need to get her some production lift.
What's the best value for money? We have about $800 to upgrade. I am lost in all the options.
We currently ahve and will re-use:
Her Lacie Monitor
Antec Sonota II w/Antec True Power 450w PSU
Video Card - ATI but still good and she doesn't game
I would like:
Dual Core Processor (no overclocking to minimal overclocking)
2 GB of Memory
400 GB SATA II HD as the main drive and then I will attach her others in as well. (2 250 GB PATA Drives). SHe doesn't want to deal with a Raptor boot drive adn moving files.
So any advice? I am not partial to Intel or AMD in this instance. Normally I am AMD all the way but I want the best bang for the buck.
Thanks for all the help and replies!
-Chris
Question I have is money is an object but we need to get her some production lift.
What's the best value for money? We have about $800 to upgrade. I am lost in all the options.
We currently ahve and will re-use:
Her Lacie Monitor
Antec Sonota II w/Antec True Power 450w PSU
Video Card - ATI but still good and she doesn't game
I would like:
Dual Core Processor (no overclocking to minimal overclocking)
2 GB of Memory
400 GB SATA II HD as the main drive and then I will attach her others in as well. (2 250 GB PATA Drives). SHe doesn't want to deal with a Raptor boot drive adn moving files.
So any advice? I am not partial to Intel or AMD in this instance. Normally I am AMD all the way but I want the best bang for the buck.
Thanks for all the help and replies!
-Chris