Need new desktop PC for CS3

I've been doing everything on a laptop virtually forever but it's time I
have a nice desktop.

I'm thinking of a Intel E6400 CPU with 4GB of RAM for Windows XP Pro. I'd
like firewire on the motherboard. I want to run a two-monitor setup, of
which currently I have only one monitor which support DVI. So I need two
PCI-Express video cards. Which ones? Is 256MB per card enough? If I ever
plan on running Vista of course I would need 512MB per card to support Aero
without shared memory. Preferred motherboard brand is Asus but are there
others you like?

I world pay up to $2000 for the right system.

I don't mind building the system myself (my day job is IT afterall) but is
there anyone out there selling a computer like this right off the shelf?

Thanks!

On Mon, 14 May 2007 15:25:03 -0700, just bob wrote:

> I've been doing everything on a laptop virtually forever but it's time I
> have a nice desktop.
>
> I'm thinking of a Intel E6400 CPU with 4GB of RAM for Windows XP Pro. I'd
> like firewire on the motherboard. I want to run a two-monitor setup, of
> which currently I have only one monitor which support DVI. So I need two
> PCI-Express video cards. Which ones? Is 256MB per card enough? If I ever
> plan on running Vista of course I would need 512MB per card to support Aero
> without shared memory. Preferred motherboard brand is Asus but are there
> others you like?
>
> I world pay up to $2000 for the right system.
>
> I don't mind building the system myself (my day job is IT afterall) but is
> there anyone out there selling a computer like this right off the shelf?
>
> Thanks!

No offense, but it seems to me you've got the thing backwards - buying a
new computer so you can run a piece of software?