New i7 build ?

[jnbradl]

Thanks in advance.

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
Web browsing, Photoshop, Video Editing
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?

3) Where do you live?
NC
4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. Please be very specific.

5) If reusing any parts, what parts will you be reusing? Please be especially specific about the power supply. List make and model.
None
6) Will you be overclocking?
Not at first, maybe in the future
7) What size monitor do you have or plan to have?
22 inch
8) When do you plan on building/buying the PC?
ASAP
9) What features do you need in a motherboard? RAID? Firewire? Crossfire or SLI support? etc.
Firewire



This is what I am about to buy from NEWEGG. Will these parts perform well together?



Case: COOLER MASTER COSMOS 1000 RC-1000-KSN1-GP Black/ Silver Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case

Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD5 LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard

Memory: G.SKILL 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Triple Channel Kit Desktop

PSU: Corsair 750tx 750 watt

Vid Card: SAPPHIRE 100245L Radeon HD 4850 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card

Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

CPU: i7 920

OS: MS Vista Ultimate SP1 64bit

 

[lt_shiro]

1. for video editing, you will need whole lot more space. I suggest 2 x 640 WD GB Hard drives in Raid 0 and 2 x 1.5 TB Hard Drives in Raid 1.

2. 9800 GTX is price horribly, replace with GTX 260 192. Its like $20 different in price from 9800 GTX.

3. Big case like that doesn't need a modular powesupply. Corsair 750 watt would be better buy.

 

[jnbradl]

Thank you for the quick response. What other vid Cards would everyone recommend? I would like to go the budget route since I do not game much of any.

The card I have selected is this:



EVGA 512-P3-N871-AR GeForce 9800 GTX(G92) 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card

$110 with $10 mail in rebate

Any other choices that compare in price and performance?

 

[Dangman]

EVGA 512-P3-N871-AR GeForce 9800 GTX(G92) 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card

$110 with $10 mail in rebate

Any other choices that compare in price and performance?

Well first of all, your price is off: That 9800GTX is $160, not $110. Second, the HD4850 costs around that much but is much faster than the 9800GTX.

Anyway, if you're using CS4, that does use the GPU to help ridiculously large image files. But I haven't seen a review where they compared Photoshop CS4 performance with different video cards yet. But from what I've been able to gather, at most all you need is the HD 4550 for Photoshop CS4.

 

[jnbradl]

Thanks for the correction. I was looking at the cart in newegg. They had the card at $110 dollars and the "free gift" at $49.

So this would be a good substitute?

SAPPHIRE 100245L Radeon HD 4850 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card