Advice building a photo editing system

[Odin9977]

 

[itotallybelieveyou]

uhhh right you didn't post ANYTHING

 

[Odin9977]

Sorry, I made a mistake the first time.
I would like to build my first system, I will use it for photo editing mainly, with Photoshop Cs3 and Lightroom.
Could anybody give me a hand?
Thanks

 

[burntham77]

Lots of RAM. 4 gigs minimum. At least a dual-core, quad if you can swing it. Photoshop will love you long time.

 

[StevieD]

RAM, RAM, RAM and some more RAM.

The modern MB and 64bit OS can handle 8GB. Might be overkill, but planning to go to 8 GB is a better strategy than just buying 4GB with no long term strategy. I would buy 2 x 2GB sticks with the plan to go to 8 GB if needed or desired. The 2x2 sticks will cost a little more, but allow you to bump to 6 or 8GB at a latter day with the lowest total cost.

The Q6600 is an ideal CPU.