Looking at getting a new tower for home. Looking for recommendations

[JimClark]

Looking at getting a new tower for home. Need more horsepower for using Photoshop and possibly Lightroom to work on my images. Tired of using this 6year old computer. What processor are people using with LR and Photoshop CS6 now days. I7? also would like recommendations for memory and video card
Any of you guy's build systems?

[Heaving Earth]

what do you use now?

[Heaving Earth]

ive heard nothing is fast enough for cs6...lol
i just picked up a mac mini with i7, 500gb hd, 60 gb ssd in front, and 16 g memory. its pretty damn fast.... I'm sure it would handle it...
i found it on craigslist, and its a beauty. i really got a helluva deal on it too

[JimClark]

Really want to know?
It is 5 or 6 years old and a Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 2.33 GHZ and 16GB of ram running windows 7. it works on photoshop though I mostly use Bridge and Adobe Camera Raw for working on my images. But is extremely slow using Lightroom.
Jim

what do you use now?

[Heaving Earth]

I like the Mac mini because you can actually open it up and add or remove hard drives and solid state drives internally. I run music software, so i run the program on the ssd and store on the hd. Keeps the program itself running quick. I recommend running your programs on a ssd and storing on a hd. Whatever you do, try to dedicate your computer to doing the task you get it for.

[photohoward1]

Any Mac Is great! But if you are Diehard Windows person Get the latest greatest intel chip. (probably the i7) Since the machine you are using is 6 years old every new machine is going to be better.
Video card really only matters if you are a gamer. Photoshop does not care. Load it up with memory though. 4gig at least. Get the Best you can afford or want to spend.