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I want to build a computer for my girlfriend which she will be using for digital imaging (not really heavy DI). I would imagine that a computer used for that would need a decent video card and a good amount of ram. Below are the requirements that i would like to meet with my budget if possible. I am not just being lazy and asking you guys to do this. I am pretty familiar with higher end products and so building a computer on a budget is hard for me because i dont know if a certain product is a complete pos or decent.

- Do not worry about any software, keyboard, mouse, or monitor (just hardware)
- AMD 64 (Socket 939 if possible)
- you suggest mobo, ram, hdd, DVD rom, case, and GPU
- I would like to keep this around $400 if possible If you can get something that is considerably better and it puts me at $500 then thats fine.

I dont know if this is possible. Any suggestions will be appreciated. You guys have always been able to help me with other problems and I would like to thank you for that and for the time you are taking to help me with this.
 
If she's going to be doing 'digital imaging', I would highly suggest foregoing a fancy 3D accelerator and building something with a motherboard based on the GeForce 6100/410 chipset, and pouring as much as you can into 1) RAM and 2) Processor speed.
 
I would definitely agree with Morley about the video card. She's probably not going to need anything more than what the TForce 6150 has to offer (integrated GeForce 6200). Here is the best that I could do using quality parts and still keeping it around your budget.

CASE: Cooler Master Centurion 541 with 380w PSU - $70
CPU: A64 3000+ Venice - $135
RAM: Corsair ValueSelect 512MB x 2 - $79
MOBO: Asus A8N-VM CSM - $88
HD: Seagate 7200.7 80GB SATA150 - $58
ROM: NEC 3550a 16x DVD+/-RW - $39

Total = $469
 
The high-end video cards do not improve static image quality. In fact, your regular, run of the mill "Xtreme" graphics will handle digital imaging just fine.

(in case you didn't get that "Xtreme" part, that's from the "legend" of the Intel "Xtreme" graphics. The only thing the "Xtreme" stood for was "Xtremely" bad at games.)
 
thank you everyone for your suggestions

emptyflame: you gave me exactly what i needed. thank you so much
 
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