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Bendel

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Hey everyone,
I'm currently in Australia studying abroad, but when I get home I plan on building a new desktop. My current Sony Vaio laptop is garbage for a lot of the things I need it to do. The screen is terrible, it can't handle photoshop cs5, and I don't like the fact that when I run a secondary monitor off of it the screens aren't the same resolution. Also, I don't have an hdmi port.

So, I've been doing my research for a couple days and I've made this list of components I plan on buying. The base components are a kit off of newegg, with a few additions of my own. It's a little over my budget at this point so I either need to play with my budget a little bit or drop some components.

Processor: Intel i5 2500k
Motherboard: ASUS P8P67
Graphics: ASUS ENGTX560 TI DCII/2DI/1GD5 GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 1GB
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4gb)
Power Supply: Corsair 750W
Harddrive: Seagate 1TB
SSD: Crucial M4 64GB
Case: Cooler Master CM690II
DVD: Asus
Monitor: 2x ASUS VW246H 24" w/ Huey Pro
And Windows 7


As of now, I feel like the graphics card might be more than what I need. I feel like that's a place where I could save a bit on my budget. That card is $250 and I feel like I could get by with a cheaper one. Anything else I'm missing or I could do better for a similar budget?

The most important need is photo editing. Gaming may be a factor but I don't do a lot of it. Thoughts?
 
why the high-er end 560ti, there are many for cheaper, for 240 a 6950 is better too. also a ssd is just a luxury, it can be dropped, will just make boots faster than a hdd. also a 750w is complete overkill for this, all you need is a quality (like that corsair, or go antec/xfx/seasonic/silverstone/pc power and cooling) 650w or even 600 or less would work, i'd rec like a tx650 though to be safe. also look at the haf912, and some lian li's around hat price.

but what are you planning to do with this exactly, cuz this is a straight up ghamer, not what you had put in your op.
 
The graphics card that was listed was part of a package deal that I used as the basis of what I was going to buy. I figured by the time I'm actually purchasing components prices will fall, I just wanted a general estimate.

I know the ssd is a luxury, but I really want it. I want quick startups and plan on installing Windows/Photoshop/Office on it.

The 750w power supply was because of similar builds I've looked into - they either have a 650W and people say it's on the verge of being too little, or they have the 750W. At what point do I need the 750W then?

Like I said, this will mostly be for photo editing and batch editing raw files. I also will most likely do some gaming. I want Skyrim and I'd prefer it on a pc over my xbox, but if I don't have a computer that can run Skyrim I'm limited to the xbox.
 
5 more, a good bit faster read/write, and has a mir for 20 off

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227737

a 750 would run 2 of that gfx card, alot of people ain't too bright, and if you look at other gtx560ti's, they all say "500 Watt or greater power supply recommended," so we recomend a 550 to a 600w so you have the head room, and with an ssd it'll want a little more, idk how much they use, but it shouldn't even recomend a 550 for that.

johnb's appeared after i posted, and yeah, that's a great quality one and provide plenty of head room. and the k means the 2500k is overclockable, and if you plan to do that you should grab a cpu cooler like the coolermaster 212 or the antek kuhler 620 i think, 1st id lower end, 2nd is lower end liquid cooling, which will kill the first.
 
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