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Originally Posted by DavidU
I want to do astro imaging & processing and the kids will play games etc.
i7 920?
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After heaps of research I'm getting an i7 920 in a few days for electromagnetic simulations, image processing and gaming.
Other people might say wait for the release of the i7 860 or whatever as they can clock faster, but it'll be months till there are stable enough motherboards and BIOS revisions to have a good experience.
At least 4GB. More if you're pushing around really large images or doing plenty of multi-tasking. But as mentioned Vista x64 would be a good option, as it's the primary target of driver developers these days.
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Originally Posted by renormalised
Your main thing with what you want is RAM.....the more the merrier. A good fast CPU wouldn't go astray either
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RAM is dirt cheap these days, so it's easy just to get heaps and not concern yourself with it at all. Instead the focus should be on the CPU as you can judge the potential performance improvement easier. I'd definitely go quad-core as more programs are becoming multi-core aware these days.