I need an upgrade.....Help please!

[Raybo]

I have been an AMD user since about '95, my first was a 600Mhz purchased from BB (forgot the brand but I think it was an Acer), I than started DIY using the Acer case and upgrading the MB along with slapping in a T-bird 1 gig prosessor. I have been through several builds and am currently at my sig, it's deffinetly getting long in the tooth!
I have had cold boot problems for about 6 months (not sure if it's the PSU or MB) and recently devolped BSOD problems. I checked my sticks individually and one of them turned out to be bad so I removed it, now i'm running on 1 gig and my rig is running a bit slower but no BSOD problems.

With that said i'm long overdue for an upgrade and i'd like to stay with AMD and would like some advice (i'm thinking about $1000 total)
I know i'll have to upgrade my OS so please keep that in mind.
My wants are...
An SSD
1 TB HD to go along with my SSD
Video card does not have to be cutting edge but I would prefer ATI
16 gigs ram(?)
MB around $100ish?
I'm not sure if I need a new PSU, i'll see if I can get it checked out
I have a Pentax K-5 and will be using Lightroom for prosessing my raw files (raw files are around 20Mb)

Thanks as always,
Ray

[RogueTrader]

At the risk of being seen as unimaginitive, you could start like I did...select one of the HW Leaderboard systems based on budget, and replicate it. At least you know the thing will work! Tweak it by using resources like cpubenchmark.net. Best of luck, have fun with it!

[br01]

I think your best bet is with the CPU. Get the best AMD CPU and then the cheapest mobo and mem you can as you mentioned image processing and for that I would probably go Intel.