Well I went through a similar quest a month or so ago and ended up builing my own system. You want to find the sweat spot for processor power versus performance. I went with an Intel i7-930, its a fast quad core than Windows7 x64 multithreads and sees as 8 cores. I think the chip with heat sink and fan was $199. Went with an Asus Motherboard, 6gig of triple channel ram, a Nvidia GTX260 graphics card, not too expensive but supports CUDA for CS5. Used an Intel 80gig SSD for my C-Drive, super fast! For storage I added four (yes four) 2 TB drives set up as a RAID10 array.
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Nikon D700, D300, D5000, NIKON GLASS 85mm F/1.8 D, 105mm f/2.8 Micro AF-S VR, 70-200 AF-S VR f/2.8, 28-300 AF-S VRII,10.5mm Fisheye, 24-70 AF-S f/2.8, TC-20E II AF-S, Sigma 12-24 HSM, Sigma 30mm f/1.4 HSM, Sigma 150-500 OS, 2 SB-600 Speedlights, Manfrotto 190MF3 tripod & 322RC2 ball grip head. - NJ, USA
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