Attached Link: Desktop or Laptop, Specs, The Ultimate Artists Computer

I see that **inshaala** is,

thinking of doing some minor upgrades to [his] computer

A similar question came up recently on the Art Theory Forum -- I have
provided the link to that message thread. 

Some points to keep in mind ...

1. a 'faster' graphics card does not help photoshop -- it would probably
   be helpful only for a game redraw. 

2. Tanchelyn spoke corectly by saying that the video card must have it's
   own refresh memory.  If it doesn't have it's own refresh memory not only
   does it use some of your RAM, more importantly, it also steals processing
   time by using as much as 10% of the memory bandwidth to do screen refresh. 

3. I also note that Tanchelyn said that XP has a memory limit of 2GBy --
   OTOH, I found this page on the Crucial web site that gave the XP limit as
   4GBy.  This is an important point that needs more research.  I'll check with
   one of my software suppliers. 

4. I feel that your HDD should be a RAID-1 array or a RAID-5 array as one
   of the best ways to safeguard your data -- this concept is discussed in the
   cited message thread in the Art Theory forum ... (of course, I wouldn't mind
   discussing it all again here grin). 

5. It bears repeating that if PS is going out to the swap file, an additional
   HDD would improve performance ... but having a RAID-0 array for the PS
   swap area would give an even greater improvement. 

HTH

--
Martin