Thank you John, Jim, Harm and Moose-Breath for your help. I would like to get something similar to Harm’s “Economical” build mentioned on his post earlier in this forum titled “What PC to build, updated January 2012” Chassis: CoolerMaster HAF 932 PSU (Power Supply): Corsair Pro Gold AX850 Motherboard: GA Z68-UD5 CPU: i7-2600K CPU Cooler: Cooler Master H212 RAM: 4x4 GB DDR3-1600 GPU GTX 560 Ti Please could you help me understand a few things better. CPU COOLER: For the CPU cooler, Harm recommended the Cooler Master H212 in this price bracket. Is there a reason that you didn’t recommend the “Cooler Master H212 plus” as it seems to be the updated model catering to the i7? John recommended that I get something similar to the Cooler Master Hyper N520 RR- 920-N520-GP 92mm Sleeve CPU Cooler Intel Core i7 compatible. I have looked at both of them but can’t understand the difference. Some people seem to have had problems fitting the H212 plus into their chassis. Is the Hyper N520 better than the H212 (Plus ?) or are they similar? My present tower is conveniently located inside a small cupboard so it is encased on 3 sides with only 4 small vents on each of two sides and an open front. If I wanted to house the new computer in the same cupboard, does this have implications for the model cooler that I use or would you recommend against the cupboard? CHASSIS: The Chassis comes with options for 3 additional fans if I understand it correctly. Would I use the Cooler Master CPU cooler instead of the three fans or in addition to the fans that come optional with the chassis? POWER SUPPLY: Would there be an advantage to using the Corsair 1200 watt power supply over the 850 watt on the above configuration? Does this power supply sit outside the chassis? GRAPHICS CARDS: GTX 560 Ti, GTX 460, GTX 470. Which one is better? The prices seem to differ amazingly depending on which make you use eg MSI, Gigabyt or Palit. Palit seems the cheapest. I am at this stage only using Premiere Elements 10 and Lightroom 4 for video editing. Not planning on upgrading to Premiere Pro any time soon. I know that some graphics cards caused problems with Premiere Elements 9 but can only find an outdated supported devices list on the Adobe Premiere Elements site which was last updated in October last year. None of the three cards mentioned above appear on the list although I found reference somewhere else to the GTX 470 being supported. John said that Premiere Elements does not make any special use of extended graphics card abilities. Does this mean that I could actually just use the onboard graphics facilities of Sandy Bridge i7 2600K or do I need a card for another reason? I would be happy to save the money if it won’t help me at all and put in a good card if I do decide to upgrade to Premiere Pro in the future. Thank you very much for your help. This has been quite a steep learning curve for me. Kind regards Linda
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