Approximate Purchase Date: The next week or two
Budget Range: $3000 - $4000 after rebates
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Workstation - Photoshop CS5, Illustrator CS5, Vegas Video 10, Cubase
Parts Not Required: Keyboard, mouse, speakers, Windows 7, optical drive
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Newegg, Amazon
Country: USA
Parts Preferences: No real preference
Overclocking: No
SLI or Crossfire: Not sure if I need one of them?
Monitor Resolution: 1920x1200 (at least two, possibly three monitors)
Additional Comments: I am looking to build a new workstation to replace my old Dell Precision 690. That machine is running dual 3.2 GHz Xenon processors with 12 GB of RAM and roughly 4 TB of hard disk space (RAID 1). I'm thinking that another dual-processor i7 or similar setup would be good.
I do a TON of high-resolution image editing and resampling (images range from 6000 x 6000 pixels to 10,000 x 10,000 pixels), HD video editing and multitrack audio recording and editing, so a lot of RAM and disk space are important. I don't do any gaming at all on this system.
I have built many machines in the past and I am comfortable working on computers in general. That said, it's been 4 or 5 years since the last one. Wow have things changed! Stability, speed and storage space are the things I'm most concerned with in this build, as is some degree of future-proofing. I have had my Precision 690 for around 5 years and would like to keep this one for a similar duration.
Please let me know if I left anything out and I'll add whatever info I forgot.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions or configurations -- I'm completely lost with all the new technologies that are out there these days!
Budget Range: $3000 - $4000 after rebates
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Workstation - Photoshop CS5, Illustrator CS5, Vegas Video 10, Cubase
Parts Not Required: Keyboard, mouse, speakers, Windows 7, optical drive
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Newegg, Amazon
Country: USA
Parts Preferences: No real preference
Overclocking: No
SLI or Crossfire: Not sure if I need one of them?
Monitor Resolution: 1920x1200 (at least two, possibly three monitors)
Additional Comments: I am looking to build a new workstation to replace my old Dell Precision 690. That machine is running dual 3.2 GHz Xenon processors with 12 GB of RAM and roughly 4 TB of hard disk space (RAID 1). I'm thinking that another dual-processor i7 or similar setup would be good.
I do a TON of high-resolution image editing and resampling (images range from 6000 x 6000 pixels to 10,000 x 10,000 pixels), HD video editing and multitrack audio recording and editing, so a lot of RAM and disk space are important. I don't do any gaming at all on this system.
I have built many machines in the past and I am comfortable working on computers in general. That said, it's been 4 or 5 years since the last one. Wow have things changed! Stability, speed and storage space are the things I'm most concerned with in this build, as is some degree of future-proofing. I have had my Precision 690 for around 5 years and would like to keep this one for a similar duration.
Please let me know if I left anything out and I'll add whatever info I forgot.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions or configurations -- I'm completely lost with all the new technologies that are out there these days!