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Comment on my build. Planning on purchasing this week. New at this and not very sure if these components will work well toghther. I plan to use the system for photo editing, word processing, internet, and lite gaming.

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SAMSUNG Black 22X DVD Burner Black SATA Model SH-S223B
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Rosewill RCR-IC001 40-in-1 USB 2.0 3.5" Internal Card Reader w/ USB port / Extra silver face plate
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GIGABYTE GA-MA770T-UD3P ATX AMD Motherboard
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Rosewill RP600V2-S-SL 600W Power Supply
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AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor
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G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
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Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-bit for System Builders w/ Tech Guarantee
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Grand Total: $801.91

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No on the roastwell PSU, get an OCZ Modxstream for about the same price
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] -_-Product

Also dont forget to combo
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Comb [...] 11-119-203

What resolution are you running at? For photo editing and lite gaming i would suggest an i5 over a phenom II, it will perform significantly better at the photo editing and you can lower the graphics card to have more to spend on the CPU and mobo.

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Reply to hunter315

Planning on running 1080
A photo editor friend suggested I get a card with at least a gb, do I really need that much?

Reply to cromero55

Not for photo editing, for gaming yes, the 1GB of vram will help but as you arent rapidly rendering frames during photo editing the added vram wont help much. What do you consider by lite gaming? Medium settings once in a while or would you like to have high settings when you play?

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when i do play, i would like to have the best possible settings

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