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20-05-11, 07:18 PM
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I think it was Arthur C. Clarke who came up with the computing triangle - FAST - RELIABLE - CHEAP, you can only ever get any two..
If it's fast & reliable - it's not cheap If it's cheap & fast - it's not reliable If it's reliable and cheap - you've guessed it  Phil 
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20-05-11, 07:21 PM
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 Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures. Don McCullin : Nuff said! Small Town Inertia Aletheia Photo Collective Twitter account
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20-05-11, 07:24 PM
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Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures. Don McCullin : Nuff said! Small Town Inertia Aletheia Photo Collective Twitter account
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#44
20-05-11, 07:57 PM
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 My set up was 700 quid without monitor. Just under a grand with monitor.
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22-05-11, 07:50 AM
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22-05-11, 07:52 AM
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22-05-11, 08:44 AM
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#48
23-05-11, 08:18 AM
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my completely biased opinion on what my next upgrade would be would go something like this or should i say this is the system i built for myself recently
the processor has to be intel i find with processors you get to a particular speed/spec and the price increase goes silly so i tend to go for the one just before the massive price hike in this case it was the intel I7 2600k 3.4gig sandy bridge the mother board... you can't go far wrong with asus and the board of choice was the asus p8p67 pro it has pretty much everything you need along with some of the latest technology ( sata 3 , usb 3 etc.. ) and the build and reliability of asus oh it is also quite a good board for overclocking if thats your thing memory 8 gig corsair ( 4 x 2gig ) ddr3 16000mhz as for graphics well maybe i do want to play the latest games some time in the future so it would be nice to have the capability the graphics card of choice was the ATI radion HD 6900 with 2 gig of memory again with graphics cards you can get good cards for not a lot of money but they can get silly with the prices i think the 6900 is somewhere in the middle as far as hard drives go if you want speed it has to be SSD and my choice was a 128gig SSD for the operating sysytem which i think is big enough for most needs all data , graphics etc.. can be stored on external or additional internal drives an ideal would be to have a second SSD drive to use for virtrual memory, scratch disks etc.. but i havn't got round to that yet as far as sound goes it gets pretty good on board now but i still prefer the creative card route and have on of the x-fi cards in ther for good measure a nice case with plenty of ventilation and water cooling has become very easy with the corsair H70 kit ( especially if you want to overclock ) well there you have it total cost a couple of months or so ago just over a 1000 quid but should do pretty much anything and hopefully should carry on doing what i want for some time to come told you it was a biased opinion
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23-05-11, 12:44 PM
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Matt - thanks for the advice
Cosmicma - that sounds amazing. Sadly our budget really can't go over 3 - 400 450 at a real push unless I go on a serious hunger strike ; )
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Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures. Don McCullin : Nuff said! Small Town Inertia Aletheia Photo Collective Twitter account
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