smartbei

Feb 27 2006, 03:46 PM

I am looking to buy a decent mild-gamer computer and I need some help with picking and choosing parts. I will be using some high-end applications such as Solidworks (3d design program), Adobe Photoshop, and Macromedia Flash. I want a computer that will be able to run these well, and be stable enough that I won't need to reboot as much as I do with the current computer. I have no need of a DVD writer, and have about 2500 NIS (New Israeli Shekels) to spend (roughly $550-$600) not including the monitor. Any recommended specifications would be great, and if your from Israel, perhaps recommended places to buy computers or parts (not much hope of that ). Thanks in advance!

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saga

Feb 28 2006, 07:53 AM

since you do work with photoshop and 3d design program you should try intel pentium 3.6 GHz of processing speed. Its good for gaming too. ABout the video card, use Radeon which has at least 256 memory since it works will with gaming and 3d rendering too. then have a 200GBytes of Hard disk, SATA is preferable since its more faster than IDE, be sure that it is at least 7200 RPM and its Seagate . About your RAM.. have 1Gbytes of RAM which have at least 400MHz of speed.. This set is sure a powerful one. I believe thats the 3 main component for having a high-end computer

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pbrugge

Mar 2 2006, 01:03 PM

Do you want to render your 3d projects on this pc? If so it would be an good idea to get enough ram that is fast to 512mb will do but wont be workable when making big projects 1024 or 2048mb @ 400/533Mhz will be an better choise.

For processor and pentium4 3Ghz or Amd 64 3200 will do fine I would recommend the amd since these are better to tune for higer clockspeed.

Well the harddisk, You say yourself you never filled an disk over 25GB so you could do 2x80GB in raid with cache of 8mb a disk.

You also will need an motherboard and videocard?
Don't take AGP anymore but make sure the motherboard has a pci-e 16x slot for graphic-cards pci-e is cheaper and better as agp when it comes to speed and performance (sometimes even a factor 3). An Nvidia 6600GT is a perfect card for gaming.

Hope this is helpfull

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