New Photoediting rig

[Delavan]

Hi,

My Dad wants to get into the Photo-editing world. Also, the rig will have to sport most of the latest options/connectors for a little bit of "future-proofing" and maybe be used for a little bit of multimedia-everything/encoding. He wants a nice reflex-type camera and stuff and start to get creative (making albums, photoshop, whatever).

I'm thinking:

-CPU (i5 760 or Phenom II X4 or X6)
-RAM (4GB or 8GB, guessing 4GB is enough)
-Mobo (USB3, firewire, eSATA, lots of USB) gigabyte P55 -UD4P or something
-64GB SSD for boot drive
-At least 1 X 1TB or a 2TB HDD for storing projects
-Decent 500Watts PSU
-Windows 7 home premium 64
-Thinking of a Sapphire HD5670 Ultimate (fanless) for the HDMI, possibility of dual DVI, no noise, low power, low temps (that card is one of the coolest running cards right now), yet supports DX11, ATI STREAM, Hd video decoding, audio everything via HDMI.

I'll put all that into a Antec 300 with a few silent 120mm fans and call it quits...

Do you guys have any suggestions on the above-mentioned parts?
It might be a little overkill, but the goal is to keep the rig below the $1000 mark an build something that will feel fast for a long time...no gaming, no serious number crunching...

Plz give me your input!!!

[_dangtx_]

perhaps a 1055t on a nice giga, 870a or the ud3?

or maybe a xeon 3440 on 1156 with still a giga board, in the same price range, some may say 1366 but itll push the budget. personally id go with the 1055t. if he doesnt build right away and gets a cooler running 95 watter(the td one is 125w) even better

psu wise corsair,seasonic,antec.

not a big fan of the case, get yourself a nice precision ps04b. looks expensive/cool

[enaberif]

ram, ssd, 64bit os and a bit of ram is all yo need.

Photoshop isn't cpu or gpu intensive at all.

If you have a SSD for Photoshop it makes things so much nicer

[Delavan]

Good call on the Silverstone case.
For the 1055T, after you mentioned it on a few posts, I looked for it, and it's still not out there yet. Do we have any idea of when they're supposed to come out?

Also, any issues with a SSD on a AMD Motherboard? (Heard of some issues with TRIM not being supported with the controllers)...

[enaberif]

Originally Posted by Delavan

Good call on the Silverstone case.
For the 1055T, after you mentioned it on a few posts, I looked for it, and it's still not out there yet. Do we have any idea of when they're supposed to come out?

Also, any issues with a SSD on a AMD Motherboard? (Heard of some issues with TRIM not being supported with the controllers)...

SSD can be used on a AMD board but for the best benefits don't.

Use Intel hardware for this rig.

[_dangtx_]

looks like the standard windows driver for the trim command to be passed along must be used, i think ak mentioned.

no idea when, been waiting for a few months myself.

also, the upcoming chips wont be able to be dropped into am3, like we were told a few moons ago.

[Zero82z]

Originally Posted by _dangtx_

also, the upcoming chips wont be able to be dropped into am3, like we were told a few moons ago.

Like you were told by whom? There was never any official announcement that Bulldozer would be supported by AM3 motherboards.

[jcmaz]

Originally Posted by Zero82z

Like you were told by whom? There was never any official announcement that Bulldozer would be supported by AM3 motherboards.

Desktop Bulldozer Processors Will Require New Platforms - AMD - X-bit labs

[Zero82z]

Originally Posted by jcmaz

Desktop Bulldozer Processors Will Require New Platforms - AMD - X-bit labs

And that specifically says that Bulldozer will not be compatible with AM3, which is what I said...

[Sushi Warrior]

Originally Posted by enaberif

ram, ssd, 64bit os and a bit of ram is all yo need.

Photoshop isn't cpu or gpu intensive at all.

If you have a SSD for Photoshop it makes things so much nicer

Uhhhh what?

Quad core/i7 and an Nvidia GPU will go a long ways to improve processing time of filters/rendering and overall "speed" of photoshop. It uses Nvidia GPU's to accelerate processing. Don't need much, just a GT240 maybe.

Lots of RAM helps a lot, 6GB on 1366 would be good. i7 930 maybe? SSD would help a lot for boot-up but I can't say for certain how much it will speed up PS itself. Should help enough to justify the price. 40GB OWC maybe? They only cost $100 or so.

Lots of storage is good, but make SURE to get an external. You/he need BACKUPS and lots of them.