Looking for non-specific hardware recommendations

Let's start by saying that I am a passionate amateur photographer who uses Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 4 on a Windows laptop with the following specs:

Windows 7 Home Premiium

Intel i7 Q820 1.73 GHz

8G ram

750 GB 7200 RPM hard drive

ATI Mobility Radeon HD4670

Bamboo graphic tablet

Dell SP2009W 20 "monitor as main display - screen laptop as secondary display

While this works fine for now, more I learn and use Photoshop, the slower and more boring becomes my system.  It is not uncommon for the registration of a tiff file that is unique to the PS to take 5 minutes.  I am considering the construction of a new computer.  I am convinced that I am able to build a computer but a large number of material choice is where I get confused.  In addition, I don't know what the most important components to run the faster PS.

I read through a bunch of messages from people asking "is this system, all good for Photoshop" or "what video card is better 4xx or 5xx" etc.  But this isn't really what I need to know.  Are there general advice on what is most important for the PS?  RAM?  GHz? Discs work?

Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions.

If you set up a system yourself around a motherboard you can create a monster for 3 grand.

A really powerful combination can be a motherboard based on 37xx i7 or i7-39xx, (which has high speed), 16 GB of RAM with space to grow, 4 vector x OCZ 256 GB SSD in RAID 0 for the system, applications and data to work, more a HDD spinning for low-access to data (for example, your library), ATI Radeon HD 7850.

Another possibility (which is the route I usually take) is to find positions of high-end just-end of the lease (as Dell details) on eBay.  Most people don't realize what a previous generation system, with all parts of higher-range can outperform models of this generation with something else that the highest parts of the range, and the price can be quite a bit less.

For example: I bought these people before: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Precision-T5500-Dual-2x-Six-Core-6C-Xeon-2-80GHz-X5660-Quadro - 4000-8 - 310 - / 251205144017? pt = Desktop_PCs & hash = item3a7cfe4dd1

You might ask to downgrade the video card Quadro 4000 for a basic model, get your own for example, ATI 7850 and spend the savings on the SSD.

-Christmas

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