$1000 Gaming/photo editing PC

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Approximate Purchase Date: Within a month

Budget Range: ~$1000 after rebates

System Usage from Most to Least Important: Photo editing, gaming (WoW, etc)

Parts Not Required: Keyboard, Monitor, mouse, speakers, etc...

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Anything in Canada

Country of Origin: Canada

Parts Preferences: none

Overclocking: Maybe

SLI or Crossfire: Maybe

Monitor Resolution: 1024 x 768, upgrading soon to 1920 x 1080

Additional Comments: Preferred as quiet as possible, but not too important. Also needs as much RAM as possible for the fastest possible export and editing of photos, videos SOMETIMES.


This build is for a friend of mine, and currently I have a few parts picked out...

AMD Phenom II x4 955BE
nVidia GTX 570
Basic AMD 880G or 890FX Mobo
8 GB RAM

No preference on parts, Thats just what I picked out that I think would be fairly good.