[thrasherht]

My sister is big into photography and is starting to do it as part time income, so she needed a good computer to go along with it.

I was able to pick up all the parts for it minus the hard drive and dvd drive for 500 dollars.

Specs:
Corsair CX430
Gigabyte GA-H67MA-UD2H-B3
Intel i5 2400
Corsair 1333mhz 2x2gb
WD Blue 250gb
all in an NZXT Gamma

Pictures:
All the parts layed out

PSU in the box

PSU out of box

Main components

Motherboard taken out of box

motherboard closeup

CPU installed

Ram installed (different angle)

PSU test fitting

board installed

Lights and cables all hooked up and ready to go

getting it all setup

lights on

case glowing

 

[fishman78]

Looks like a decent start. Keep in mind with photography you'll also be looking at investing in a good monitor and storage for RAW files / Backups.

 

[thrasherht]

Quote:

Originally Posted by fishman78 Looks like a decent start. Keep in mind with photography you'll also be looking at investing in a good monitor and storage for RAW files / Backups.

we have that covered.

one of these
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-036-_-Product

with two of these in raid 1
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-514-_-Product

This for monitor
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/p...en&s=dfh&cs=22

 

[BillOhio]

This is a thread about a photography rig and your pics are out of focus.

Looks good, enjoy the new build, what software will you use with it?

OH, and this is OCN afterall so add a 590/6990 when you get the chance.

 

[MechanicalHand]

Should have let her do the pictures then

 

[thrasherht]

Yes, I know my pictures suck. This is why I am the one with the 60 dollar digital camera and my sister is the one with the nikon D80.

She doesn't need a video card for the computer.

she uses a bunch of software for editing her photos.
I know she uses:
photomatix pro
lightroom
photoshop
and a few others.

 

[thrasherht]

Quote:

Originally Posted by MechanicalHand Should have let her do the pictures then

yea probably, but she wasn't home while I was building it.

 

[Spongeboy5040]

I thought photoshop used GPU acceleration?

 

[thrasherht]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spongeboy5040 I thought photoshop used GPU acceleration?

to an extent, but not mainly. Most of the speed comes from the CPU.

My sister had a P4 3ghz dell with 1gb of ram. So this was a HUGE improvement.

I might put a GPU in it later, but for now it is just fine. Photoshop opens in under 2 seconds now, compared to like 30 seconds before, and applying filters is instant compared to 30 seconds of rendering.