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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rocketman122" data-source="post: 286451" data-attributes="member: 14443">yes, you should.  for the price though buying components yourself and installing vs buying prebuilt dell/hp you get better compnents and more flexibility. usually the MB is dell proprietary and its "accept what they give you" but everything will play nice together and wont have troubleshooting issues mostly and youll have suppoort. so from what I see you would be wise to go this route.just be aware that most times these computers are set as they are and you wont be able to upgrade components later. just something you should be aware of. not sure if its rellevant. but whats good is installing windows is usually headache free.ram is a working table. meaning if you put an image on it, you can add tons of effect and layers which addms more space and needs a bigger table to process.  using many layers and effects with a small table will slow the system down because it will start using the HDD and thats when it will slow down. 8gb is TONS of memory. youre only using a D90 for now and it soednt have huge files. the D600 is very heavy. I can feel my pc straining and using nef with viewnx recently, it was unbearable. but im only using 4gb and xp can only use 3gb out of it and I had irefox open and it itself was using 700mb of ram. so it made my working table very tiny. 8gb IS A HUGE amount of ram for editing pictures. video editing needs a lot of ram for rendering. pics doenst ever need so much. 8gb is fine. its even fine for video editing but if you will do 1080p editing then 16gb would be better when you finally render. but for now, 8GB is more than youll use.</blockquote>

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