Is this spec ok to run Lightroon 3 and CS5 and lots of photo editing-- advice welcome

[mompesson]

[/B]Case
COOLERMASTER SILEO 500 QUIET MID TOWER CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7-870 Quad Core (2.93GHz, 8MB Cache) + Turbo Boost
Motherboard
ASUS® P7P55 LX: USB 2.0 & SATA 3.0Gb/s, CrossFireX™ SUPPORT
Memory (RAM)
8GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 4GB)
Graphics Card
1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX465 GDDR5 PCI EXPRESS - DirectX® 11
Free Item
FREE MAFIA II Game (RRP: £34.99) with a qualifying GTX 4xx Series GPU!
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
2nd Hard Disk
1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (READS XD, MS, CF, SD, etc)
Power Supply & Case Cooling
450W Quiet 80 PLUS Dual Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£29)
Processor Cooling
INTEL SOCKET LGA1156 STANDARD CPU COOLER
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities
ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Firewire & Video Editing
3 Port IEEE 1394a Firewire PCI Card (£9)
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
BULLGUARD INTERNET SECURITY - FREE 90 DAY TRIAL
Surge Protection
Belkin 8-Socket 2M SurgeMaster with £175,000 Protection Warranty! (£18)
External Hard Drive
WD My Book Essential 1TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive WDBAAF0010HBK (£75)
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 9 to 12 working days
Quantity
1

[Meds]

The specification looks great;

- Good CPU
- Plenty RAM
- Powerful GPU (some might say OTT but no harm done, will be future proof )
- Nice HDDs - Sleinous will be happy!

Only thing I'd mention is the PSU - 450W is minimum recommended (if that!) for GTX465, I'd rather see the 600W/Corsair TX650 to be on the safe side.

[Sleinous]

The specification looks great;

- Good CPU
- Plenty RAM
- Powerful GPU (some might say OTT but no harm done, will be future proof )
- Nice HDDs - Sleinous will be happy!

Only thing I'd mention is the PSU - 450W is minimum recommended (if that!) for GTX465, I'd rather see the 600W/Corsair TX650 to be on the safe side.

I'd rather see the 600W or TX650W too tbh

And yes, i'm a happy bunny! Excellent HDDs

[mompesson]

Thanks for the advice .ive up graded the psu to Corsair 750w, is that ok? What would you advise on partitioning my first drive ? 50-50

[Sleinous]

depends, if youre only putting windows on one partition and then all docs on another and changing the path to your documents then about 25/75, dpeending on the disk size. Obviously windows doesnt take up all that much room but youll need programs too

Depends really on how much room you need for documents videos etc etc etc music and so on. If not much then yes 50 50 is fine.