help in selecting the right configuration

[gdatuk]

Friends...
Am planning to buy some computers (5) for my graphic desigin studio
Applications run mostly are Adobe CS, Corel, Quarkxpress
Along with some web graphics stuff like flash and dreamweaver.
Please suggest me a perfect (or atleast almost perfect) system configuration.

Must i got for P4 3gig or anything in AMD(have no idea abt AMD)
how much ram needed, DDR or SDr?
what graphics card to go for?
TFT or CRT..(Today i saw an ad in Hindu..View sonic TFT 15inch for 10.5k)
Which spec for Power supply and cooling solution?

Note: I need tower, moni, key, mous all in Black to match my studio and existing systems. Budget is 35k per system inc UPS

Kindly throw in your views

[Aniruddh]

well intel is gud but AMD is betta so go for AMD.intel is really gud for ur type of work and AMD basically for gaming but it does not mean dat it cant handle dat so here goes da AMD config...
1)17''crt Samsung magicbrite2 -8k
2)3000+ (939)-7.2k
3)MSI K8N NEO4 Platinum mobo-6.5k wont suggest Asus A8N-E as hav heard from many dat its Fans givin problems.may b other will tellu more bout it if i m wrong.
4)512(400Mhz)ddr ram-3k(Kingston)
5)80Gb SATA-3.6k
6)Gainward Vanilla 6600-dunno da exact price may b around 6k.6600Gt others will suggest but wid dat ur budget will go beyond 35k.
7)Numeric 600VA UPS-2k
8)Sony CD-RW,DVD-ROM-2.8k
9)Speakers i really dun hav much idea bout dis others will definately help u out on dis.
10)Microsoft kb,optical mouse-1.5k

[zombie]

AMD 64 3000+Asus A8N-E = ~14k
512MB DDR @400MHz = ~2.6k
160GB SATA = ~4.2k
6200 GFX = ~3.5k
TFT are long daily usage though size of TFT that you get for certain amount is more than a larger CRT
Stock cooling is fine
Go for any roomy cabinet with extra fans = ~2.5k
Thats about it.

[abhijit_reddevil]

Originally Posted by Aniruddh

well intel is gud but AMD is betta so go for AMD.intel is really gud for ur type of work and AMD basically for gaming but it does not mean dat it cant handle dat so here goes da AMD config...
1)17''crt Samsung magicbrite2 -8k
2)3000+ (939)-7.2k
3)MSI K8N NEO4 Platinum mobo-6.5k wont suggest Asus A8N-E as hav heard from many dat its Fans givin problems.may b other will tellu more bout it if i m wrong.
4)512(400Mhz)ddr ram-3k(Kingston)
5)80Gb SATA-3.6k
6)Gainward Vanilla 6600-dunno da exact price may b around 6k.6600Gt others will suggest but wid dat ur budget will go beyond 35k.
7)Numeric 600VA UPS-2k
8)Sony CD-RW,DVD-ROM-2.8k
9)Speakers i really dun hav much idea bout dis others will definately help u out on dis.
10)Microsoft kb,optical mouse-1.5k

Problems in A8N-E??? Never heard from anybody...

it's DTP work basically, Athlon64 compared to even a Pentium 4 2.66 GHz LGA 775 won't give any benifit, as these applications needs Cache & RAM,

I would suggest that U go for an Intel Pentium 4 3 GHz CPU, Intel 915GAG motherboard with onboard gfx & PCI-E X 16 slot, use the onboard gfx, that enough for vector art, but the CPU should be HT, it helps a lot in photoshop & Illustrator

Add to it 1 GB of dual channel DDR400 RAM, & U R done

in case U will do 3d modeling, then the config is different, plz specify wweather u will do 3d Models or not

LCD is a must for DTP work, as U will work a lot on the machine, looking at the monitor, so better go for a 17" Samsung 710N Monitor, Dreamweaver is hell on 15" monitor

[gdatuk]

Originally Posted by gxsaurav

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in case U will do 3d modeling, then the config is different, plz specify wweather u will do 3d Models or not

yes will be doing some modelling mainly 3dstudio max/maya, openGL programing on unix/c environment

simply add a 6600GT with 256 MB RAM, or even cheap a FX 5700 with 256 MB RAM, the viewport eats a lot of RAM, & go for the LCD monitor

[gdatuk]

a vendor suggested to go in for 17 inch crt or even 21 inch rather than 15inch tft..he suggested it is cheap and doesnt eat much of my budget.
what adv would i have on getting tft....