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cathy78

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Hi there!
I need to have a new system to edit images (90% Lightroom) since the old Laptop is just too slow. Some surfing, youtube watching might be done at the side ;)
I thought of this:

Intel® Core™ i5-3570
GIGABYTE GA-Z77-D3H
G.Skill DIMM 16 GB DDR3-1600 Quad-Kit
be quiet! Pure Power CM L8 630W
Antec Three Hundred
LG GH-24NS
Samsung 840 series 2,5" 120 GB
Western Digital WD10EZEX 1 TB

Any comments or recommendations on this?

I don't want to go into overclocking, so I'm wondering if I could take a cheaper mainboard? Also I have no idea about the PSU and case size. I want to have options to put in additional 2-3 harddisks. I also have a gpu in mind (like a quadro 600, to get 10bit per color) but right now no budget for this.

I do want to keep the system quiet, would it be better to take a after market cpu (or case) cooler?

Thank you for your help!
 
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cathy78

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Does Haswell coming out mean, that price for the other CPU/Boards (like my choice above) might drop soon?
I would like to have xeons (many of them...) but Lightroom is pretty bad when it comes to using modern hardware. It does not use multithreading and doesn't use the gpu at all. That's why I looked into this list http://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html and picked the i5 since it was pretty high up and pretty affordable. And it will be a huge step up from a Turion TL-56.
So I should change either to a k cpu or a b75/h77 motherboard?
 
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In that case, get i5 3570k and a decent cooler ( Hyper 212 evo ) and OC your CPU. You might want to drop the PSU a bit, thou, since you don't need a discrete VGA. And yes, Ivy bridge CPUs and movo will get a price drop when 1150 stuffs got released.
 
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Probably, but he's suggesting you buy a Haswell, since it's coming out. When buying a laptop, you always buy the best, the newest, hardware that you can afford. You cannot swap out components in a laptop, like you can with a desktop, so you are stuck with what you buy.
 
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cathy78

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I actually bought used laptops the last couple years.
But anyway, I'm not sure about OC yet, but maybe I have to keep my options open and spent 30$ more now to do so. How much effect has overclocking RAM? And would it make more sense to use faster RAM from the start? I stumbled over a review that concluded something about the sweet spot is at 1600 - but I don't remeber details...
How can I calculate the right PSU? I guess I have to plan ahead with more HD and a discrete gpu...
 
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