Upgrade Advice

[ohjeez]

Hi Folks,

I currently have:
- Intel Pentium 950 Dual Core Processor (3.40Ghz)
- 2 GB Corsair DDr2
- Asus P5WDG2-WS Mobo
- Radeon X1800 GTO 256MB DDR3
- 400W PSU

I'm looking to do some upgrades to enable the following:
- Hooking up a new Dell UT2410 display - with my existing 19" LCD's - ie 3 Displays in total
- Doing a clean install of Windows 7 - possibly 64bit
- Enable faster use of Photoshop and Lightroom

I have to be honest, I haven't done much research as of yet....was thinking of:
- Replacing my CPU with an: INTEL CORE2 QUAD Q8400 2.66GHZ CPU
- Adding: 2 x CORSAIR 1024MB 240-PIN DDR2 XMS2-6400
- Replacing my Video card with: GIGABYTE ATI RADEON HD5770 1GB DDR5 VIDEO CARD
- And I notice that the above video card needs a 450 watt or greater PSU so replacing my current (400W) one with: CORSAIR 550W VX-550 ATX POWER SUPPLY

Is this overkill? The most demanding I would be on this system would be editing photos in Lightroom and Photoshop...

 

[saint19]

If your mobo is this: http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=cHDiFdYnaW6uIjo7

1- Change your mobo, your current mobo don't support the processor that you want install. See your self. http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=cHDiFdYnaW6uIjo7

2- The 550W PSU is enough.

 

[obsidian86]

welll you gonna have to change your board to use a c2q but if you wanna change rather get the i5

 

[dndhatcher]

As stated above, you are looking at a Motherboard/CPU/RAM replacement. You should probably go with an AMD Athlon II x4 as an i5 sounds like overkill.

Another issue you will have is for 3 monitors, one of them has to be on an HDMI connector, the other two will be DVI (or DVI-VGA adapter).