Hi,
I want to replace an ageing PC and I'm looking along the lines of a 3XS system from Scan. Apart from the usual web surfing & office applications, my main interest is photography so I want it to run Photoshop & lightroom with ease. I'm going to be using two Dell 24" U2414H monitors. I'm looking at something along the lines of the following (just listed the main components):
Motherboard: X99-A ASUS
Processor: Intel Core i7 5820K Unlocked, S 2011-3, Haswell-E, 6 Core, 3.3GHz, 3.6GHz Turbo, 28 PCI-E Lanes, 15MB Cache
Cooler: Corsair H80 with Corsair SP120 Quiet Fan
RAM: 32GB (4x8GB) Corsair DDR4 Vengeance LPX Black PC4-19200 (2400)
Graphics card: EVGA 2GB GTX 960
Power Supply: RM750W Modular Gold Silent PSU
Drives: 250GB Samsung 850 EVO 2.5" SSD, 2 x 2TB WD Red storage drives
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster Z Performance Gaming/Audio PCI-E 5.1 Channel
OS: Microsoft Windows 8.1 64Bit
Optical drive: Pioneer BDC-207DBK 8x Blu-ray Reader, 16x DVD±R, 8x DVD-R DL, 8x +RW, 6x -RW
So, a few questions:
- Have I pitched this about right or is it overkill?
- Do I actually need watercooling?
- Graphics card - this is one area I'm a little uncertain about - Is the 2GB card sufficient? And the question I'm really unsure of - If I want to calibrate BOTH monitors with an X-Rite i1 Display pro - do I need 2 graphics cards or just one? (I believe it's something to do with LUTs - Lookup tables - but as I say, I don't really understand this bit!)
- Sound card - Do I actually need one?
- Windows 8 - I currently use Windows 7 and I'm comfortable with it - any need to go with Windows 8 bearing in mind a free upgrade to Windows 10 later this year is supposedly coming?
Thanks Folks!