New Desk Top PC

Hi Craig. You wont need a costly graphics card for game playing but a Pentium dual core prossesor< ( 3 or 4mhz speed) with an 800mhz front side bus is usefull. 4 megabites of internal memory would be nice. I have a 500 gig  and 160 gig hard drive internal. And a 320 gig external. I back up all my photos on the external drive and then turn it off. If my computer blows up, then all my photos are safe. I have Windows XP backed up on my second internal drive, so if my main drive goes down, I can swap them over and carry on.

The actual size of you hard drive depends on how large your photo files will be, but the bigger the drive the more photos you can store. You will probably get a lot of different answeres as everybody's needs are different. But the faster the prossesor, memory and front side buss, the faster your pc can deal with resizing your photos and all the conversions.  All this sounds expensive, but the price of PCs has dropped so fast that you can get all that lot quite cheaply now.

Ooh Ive got a headache now. Lol