Help me with computer build.?

ok so I am not to sure what I need to make a good pc I need it for Photoshop and after effects and would also like to play new games such as Diablo 3 and cod 7, please can anyone help me with advice on what else I should put on this or what I can take off, I may not need the liquid cooler a cpu fan would probably do the same, anyways let me know what you all think





Thanks in advance!





mon-24-asu-029 Asus VE248H 24in 2ms LED 219.00 219.00


cpu-1366-950-ci7 i7 950 3.06G Quad Core Retail 319.00 319.00


mb-1366-asu-007 Sabertooth X58 DD3 AL ATX 217.00 217.00


m-12g-133-c-k3d3 12G(3x4G) DDR3 PC10600 1333MHz Crucial 166.00 166.00


hdi-wd-1000-s3-64 WD 1TB 64M 7200 SATA3 Caviar Black 101.00 101.00


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vg-pce-ati-285 Sapphire Radeon HD6850 1G 100315L 198.00 198.00


cas-clm-007 Coolermaster HAF 922 Black NoPS ATX 99.00 99.00


pow-antec-ea750eps Antec EarthWatt 750W EPS EA750 119.00 119.00


sf-msos-7-hp64 Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit OEM 124.00 124.00


o-drw-lit-038 Lite-ON IHAS124-04 24X SATA 26.00 26.00


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hdi-0ss-0064-c-s3 Crucial 64G SATA3 SSD 355Read/75Write 144.00 144.00


fan-cpu-cor-002 Corsair H70 Liquid Cooler CWCH70 119.00 119.00


wl-asu-001 PCE-N13 802.11n PCI-E x1 29.00 29.00


dcm-read-016 Azio Internal Card reader w/US 16.00 16.00|||the adobe page lists bare minimum requirements. a good photoshop machine will have 4 cores, at least 8GB RAM, some say I should be fine with 12GB (I prefer 16/24GB or more if you are doing panoramas, one person doing panoramas commented he was looking at a workstation with at least 64GB of memory)



I ran out of memory doing content-aware fill on a panorama with 3GB RAM (32-bit OS). I have a 32-bit OS, which requires 1/2 the memory of a 64-bit OS. my image took ~600MB. adding layers only multiplies the amount of ram taken. and this has nothing to do with scratch disk. I have 1TB of disk space dedicated to scratch disk. feed photoshop RAM.



I like to max a machine out when it comes to memory. I usually use it. but then I'm an unusual guy.



NVidia video cards work better with Adobe products than ATI. a Geforce GTX470 or quadro 3800 will also allow you to work with Premiere Pro should you decide to do so. (you could also investigate the 460, 480, and 580 if you are not going to do premiere pro). the Nvidia Manufacturer EVGA's line of products has a lifetime warranty on their products (register within 30 days).



Antec TruePower new or truepower blue is 80 plus certified and thus saves on power bills. you might pay more for your power supply, but don't skimp on your power supply.



I don't know for sure if photoshop uses CUDA. so the quadro may not be a good investment, I can't say for sure - it's expensive.



I would not advise using the SSD as your OS drive, for the main reason that windows uses c: for EVERYTHING (documents, pictures, video, music...)., and they only last for 2.4 years as opposed to a hard drive which lasts for 5. SSD's also silently fail. but photoshop works best when you can hardware RAID SSD's (using a good RAID controller, not the one on the motherboard,that's software RAID) and use that for swap space for photoshop - this is what I have read on blogs. SSD's are not very big.

there must be some way to do it.