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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 177573" data-attributes="member: 13090">I'm not saying you must have an i5 or i7 but you do NOT want a Celeron. It's not that Celeron processors &quot;don't perform well&quot;, for web browsing and office applications they're fine; they're not designed to do any sort of &quot;heavy lifting&quot; so they can be over-taxed pretty quickly however. The size of your RAW file isn't going to be a huge issue here. You don't mention what application you are going to using to edit your photos with but assuming you are going to be using Photoshop you're going to want a minimum of 8GB of memory and you are definitely going to want discrete video RAM (meaning a video *card* not &quot;Integrated&quot; video or &quot;Shared&quot; video memory).I recently rebuilt my desktop and I too went from a Core2 Duo to an i7 (quad core),from 8GB to 16GB on the motherboard and too a video card with 1GB of video RAM. Congratulations on dumping Vista! That version of Windows paid for my current computer... Mainly by doing installs for people wanting their Window XP back, or wanting me to install Win7 for them.I must say the new machine runs Photoshop like butter and, just as importantly, it runs Skyrim like butter...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 177573, member: 13090"] I'm not saying you must have an i5 or i7 but you do NOT want a Celeron. It's not that Celeron processors "don't perform well", for web browsing and office applications they're fine; they're not designed to do any sort of "heavy lifting" so they can be over-taxed pretty quickly however. The size of your RAW file isn't going to be a huge issue here. You don't mention what application you are going to using to edit your photos with but assuming you are going to be using Photoshop you're going to want a minimum of 8GB of memory and you are definitely going to want discrete video RAM (meaning a video *card* not "Integrated" video or "Shared" video memory). I recently rebuilt my desktop and I too went from a Core2 Duo to an i7 (quad core),from 8GB to 16GB on the motherboard and too a video card with 1GB of video RAM. Congratulations on dumping Vista! That version of Windows paid for my current computer... Mainly by doing installs for people wanting their Window XP back, or wanting me to install Win7 for them. I must say the new machine runs Photoshop like butter and, just as importantly, it runs Skyrim like butter... [/QUOTE]

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