SPecs for a mid range PC for graphics work

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mattwnz

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#103540 9-Jun-2012 23:09

I am looking at building a new PC and am wondering what peoples opinion is on the following system specs. It is to be used for Adobe CS6 stuff (photoshop, illustrator, indesign), as well as some CAD stuff, so need an OK 3D card for that. Not going to be using it for games. I have always had nvidea cards in the past but this radeon card look to offer better value. I have priced it around $1850, although I would like to get the price down to the $1500 mark if some of these things are overkill. The other thing I would like is to have 3 monitors running off it, which I am not sure is possible.

Motherboard Asus P8Z77-V LK
CPU - Intel Core i5 3550 3.3Ghz Socket 1155 Box
DDR3 memory - Corsair XMS3 Vengeance DDR3 PC12800/1600MHz CL9 4x4GB
Solid state drive (SSD) - Intel 330 Series 2.5" SSD 120GB
Harddrive - Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EARX 64MB 2TB
Graphics card (PCI Express) - Sapphire Radeon HD7750 HDMI DisplayPort 1GB
Power supply unit - Silverstone Strider Essential ST70F-ES 700W
Chassi - Lian Li PC-6B (Black)
Operating system - Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Eng (64-bit OEM)

mattwnz

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#638382 9-Jun-2012 23:35

I do already have things like an optical drive, keyboard, monitor etc, , so don't need to include those in my budget.

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#638393 10-Jun-2012 01:19

Have to say for a nearly $1.9k build that is a rubbish graphics card, The 7750s I have seen are generally don't support 3 outputs too easily either, Although AMD Cards are definitely the better bet for this.

A 6950 or 7850 would be a better bet especially considering graphics work + 3 screens.

With that sort of work the SSD would probably run out of space rather quickly so would only be used as the system drive, A second SSD could be a good bet for a working drive.