Back in early 2006 I upgraded my pc based on a component list that Nirofo shared in post 15 in
this thread using some of my existing components but taking that processor & motherboard as a starting point, and I've since upgraded to 2Gb RAM
It has served me well but me thinks nearly 3 years on that the time has come to move on again so what would anyone's current recommendations be without spending the preverbial arm & leg. I'm not planning on running Vista (pah) so
AMD or Intel processors?
Dual core or more?
What motherboard?
Graphics card?
etc?
My main "power" applications are Photoshop (of course), Lightroom (which can be slow in version 2.1 using the new gradient filters & adjustment brushes) & Video Studio 12 which takes a loooooong time re-rendering even short videos