Paq

Hola happy peeps
got a quick q for ya

basically, i have pIII 450 with 224 MB of ram and not enough of anything...

I do, however, have teh software i need, so i'll be sticking with windows, probably win xp. I have photoshop CS currently, but not installed on this computer, just PS7 here.

Anyway, i am going to build another computer that will be my photoshop only computer. Basically, i want a CD burner, which i have, a largish hard drive to store pics for editing, enough ram and processor power to make it scream in photoshop as it is taking entirely too long to do what i need now. by entirely too long, i mean, i'm working on 22MP pictures from a med format camera along with interpolated pics from a 10D, so most of hte pics are in the 50-500 meg range uncompressed and doing something like batch sharpening or batch anything takes hours.

Sooo, if you were going to build a computer just for photoshop, what would you get.

Doh, forgot one thing, it does need a modem for dialup, no real nic or network support, just a modem. Mouse/graphics pad is already taken care of, I'll pick up a cheap keyboard, monitor will be a flatscreen, but not LCD, i can't stand those bc of the fixed resolution..

I have also been toying with a double monitor setup idea, but not sure on that yet. i find i need speed more than deskspace. Mobo integrated sound is fine.

umm
ok, so from ground up, could you help me pick out what to buy that would make a good computer for this purpose? I can and have built computers before, but it's been a while and i'm not up to date on what is new, what is fastest, etc. For instance, i know the 800 FSB is something i'd want in a pIV chip, but i'm not sure how the AMD processors relate in terms of power. If they work just as well, the money savings would sway me towards that direction.

So, thanks again, and lemme know if i left anything out

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Chris