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July 29, 2010 2:22:28 AM

ok...

I am building a desktop for the MAIN purpose of photo-editing.... but also other tasks...possible some games...

Now i do have a case and most of my stuff picked out...BUT I would like to see different options concerning CPU/MoBo

Right now I am teetering between

1. AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 3.4GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor

or

2. Intel Core i5-750 Lynnfield 2.66GHz 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1156 95W Quad-Core Processor BX80605I5750

now id love if someone could give me pro and cons....plus MoBo matches...

I dont plan on Xfiring yet, but could be future use thing...

I guess Memory speed is somewhat important as is OC

think im going with

1. G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL7D-4GBRM

not sure on the GPU card yet.....



any thoughts...

I plan to finish my "planning" and post a complete system plan this weekend to get final responses before sending out orders ...


Budget is between 800 and 1000 US$





Will

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July 29, 2010 4:59:00 AM

If you overclock the Core i5 750 to 3.4 GHz or so it will be quite a bit faster than the Phenom II X4 965 at 3.4 GHz. I suggest the Core i5 750 & Asus P7P55D-E Pro.

Otherwise the Phenom II X6 1055T is a good option as well, combine that with the ASRock 870 Extreme3 and you've got a nice combo which can do CrossFireX too - just depends whether you game enough to use two cards later on.
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July 29, 2010 5:18:44 AM

Theres no reason to buy a 6core processor for photo editing... I'd go with an i5 simply b/c you are talking about doing crossfire/SLI in the future. The best videocard value is the new GTX460. I have one, it's awesome and It was the best $200 ever spent.

The reason I say go intel is b/c you cannot do nvidia SLI on AMD chipsets. Technically you can, but it requires some very indepth tuning and hacked software.
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July 29, 2010 5:41:37 AM

Photoshop can take advantage of six cores, so why not? It's only $20 more than a Phenom II X4 965, same price as Core i5 750, and will be faster than both as it can use six cores... last time I checked, and the main point of his build is to do Photoshop.

Two GTX 460s in SLI would be good but depending on how much OP games, it may not warrant the price of a LGA 1156 which can do x8/x8 SLI and have SATA III/USB 3.0 seeing as it's probably going to be needed.

If OP games quite a lot in reality, then the Core i5 would be more justifiable.
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August 1, 2010 5:04:47 PM

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