need help with a new pc

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      Hello everyone... I am new to the scene and I was hoping someone can help me come up with a system for gaming and for my renderings... I use photoshop and a few 3d rendering programs a lot for my hobby. I was hoping for a smooth system that can handle the processing load. I have a toshiba monitor and use a wacom intous 5 drawing pad for everything... and unfortunately I am on a tight budget. 
  Please... someone help me with some ideas... I have heard a lot about DS and i must admit that i am impressed...
              thank you

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budakia Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 01 Jan 2013 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3	Quote Reply Topic: need help with a new pc Posted: 01 Jan 2013 at 4:58pm
	Hello everyone... I am new to the scene and I was hoping someone can help me come up with a system for gaming and for my renderings... I use photoshop and a few 3d rendering programs a lot for my hobby. I was hoping for a smooth system that can handle the processing load. I have a toshiba monitor and use a wacom intous 5 drawing pad for everything... and unfortunately I am on a tight budget. Please... someone help me with some ideas... I have heard a lot about DS and i must admit that i am impressed... thank you

DomTheBomb Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 19 May 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 314	Quote Reply Posted: 01 Jan 2013 at 8:08pm
	Welcome to the forums budakia! If you could provide us with your budget and monitor(s) resolution that would help us put together a build that fits your needs. Also, if you have already started configuring a system you can post it in configuration discussion to receive feedback from other forum members.
	DS x17, 1 Year 5 Months i7 3720QM (2.6GHz/3.6GHz) 16GB 1600MHz DDR3 Nvidia GTX 680M 4GB 240GB Intel 520 SSD Windows 8.1 Pro

budakia Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 01 Jan 2013 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3	Quote Reply Posted: 02 Jan 2013 at 3:02am
	I have a 26" Toshiba set at 1360 x 768 60hz 16:9 ratio That is all I could really tell you. I would like to keep my budget at around $1500.00... because I need to get a few other things like an external hard drive, My hobby is airbrushing and I always do renderings and photo manipulations in adobe photoshop.... this is the main reason i need something with some power.... Thank you for relying and helping me with this,

bprat22 Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List DS ELITE DigitalStorm East -- (Unofficially!) Joined: 08 Jun 2011 Online Status: Offline Posts: 20391	Quote Reply Posted: 02 Jan 2013 at 6:08am
	Hi budakia... Welcome to the forums. For your budget I would recommend one of the pre-built sysems because they do offer more for the money. The Marauder level 4, ODE level 1 and Bolt level 3 fall within your budget and are real nice syatems. The difference.... The Marauder 4 is the cheapest. The ODE 1 for another $200 gives you a better case, a better graphics card that's about 20% better in gaming than the 660Ti , and cpu overclocking. Oc'ing is a cheap way to get a boost in performance and your apps would appreciate the added clock speed. The Bolt level 3 has the avantage of the i7-3770k cpu over the others. For your renderings, etc. the 3770k with its Hyperthreading gives you a 4 core chip with 8 threads for faster processing over the 3570k's 4 core, 4 thread in the other builds. To stay in budget with the Bolt 3 , you could drop the SSD, and Blu-ray player for DVD player. Here's another config just to show you some options. It's over budget but the X79 Sabertooth motherboard is a quad channel memory board as opposed to the others Z77 dual channel ram. The quad channel has a 256 bit memory buss, the Z77 boards a 128 bit memory buss. Theoretically twice the speed but in reality about 20-30% or better by some estimates. Its also has 16GB ram. The wider memory bandwidth will make your renderings smoother. Config # 770555 Cost $ 1815 Chassis Model: Special Deal Hot Seller - Corsair Carbide 500R (Black Finish) Exterior Finish: - Standard Factory Finish Trim Accents: - Standard Factory Finish Processor: Intel Core i7 3820 3.6GHz (Turbo Mode up to 3.8GHz) (Quad Core) Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth X79 (Intel X79 Chipset) (Features USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gb/s) System Memory: 16GB DDR3 1600MHz Digital Storm Certified Performance Series (Highly Recommended) (Hand Tested) Power Supply: 800W Corsair GS (Dual SLI Compatible) Expansion Bay: - No Thanks Hard Drive Set 1: Operating System: 1x (1TB Western Digital Caviar (7200 RPM) (Model: Black Edition) Set 1 Raid Options: - No Thanks Hard Drive Set 2: Multimedia\Data: - No Thanks Hard Drive Set 3: Backup\Misc.: - No Thanks Optical Drive 1: DVD-R/RW/CD-R/RW (DVD Writer 24x / CD-Writer 48x) Optical Drive 2: - No Thanks Internet Access: High Speed Network Port (Supports High-Speed Cable / DSL / Network Connections) Video Card: 1x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB (Includes PhysX) Add-on Card: - No Thanks Sound Card: Integrated Motherboard Audio Extreme Cooling: AIR: Stage 1: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO (High Performance Cooler) H20 Tube Color:- Not Applicable, I do not have a FrostChill or Sub-Zero LCS Cooling System Selected Chassis Airflow: Standard Factory Chassis Fans Internal Lighting: - No Thanks Enhancements: - No Thanks Chassis Mods: - No Thanks Noise Reduction: - No Thanks LaserMark: - No Thanks Boost Processor: Stage 1: Overclock CPU 4.0GHz to 4.4GHz Boost Video Card: - No Thanks, Please do not overclock my video card(s) Boost Memory: - No Thanks, Please do not overclock my memory Boost OS: - No Thanks, Please do not tweak the services on the operating system Windows OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-Bit Edition) Recovery Tools: Windows Recovery Toolkit (Bundled with Windows CD) Virus Protection: - No Thanks Office: - No Thanks Game: - No Thanks Display: - No Thanks Surge Shield: - No Thanks Speakers: - No Thanks Keyboard: - No Thanks Mouse: - No Thanks External Storage: - No Thanks Exclusive T-Shirt: FREE: Digital Storm T-Shirt - Black (Large) Priority Build: - No Thanks, Ship Within 10-15 Business Days After Order Is Successfully Processed Warranty: Life-time Expert Customer Care with 3 Year Limited Warranty This config is more $$ than you asked for and the other builds with Z77 dual core ram will work great and stay in budget. It all depends on what level you render, Photoshop, special effects, etc. And budget of course. You really can't go wrong with any of them. They will all give you what you want, just that some options have a bit better components. It's all good. Hope this helps and good luck. Edited by bprat22 - 02 Jan 2013 at 6:14am

budakia Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 01 Jan 2013 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3	Quote Reply Posted: 03 Jan 2013 at 3:22am
	wow!! i definitely love the last config!!! Thank you very much bprat22!!! I realize I have some options now and I think within a couple of months I will have a perfect pc!! Thank you all!!

bprat22 Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List DS ELITE DigitalStorm East -- (Unofficially!) Joined: 08 Jun 2011 Online Status: Offline Posts: 20391	Quote Reply Posted: 03 Jan 2013 at 8:41am
	Glad to help.

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