New PC HELP

[amy65]

Hi i have had a dog of a computer for 3 years ,well this is to say it may actually have been slow and sticking through windows vista home premium.i am upgrading due to some redundancy money and want to choose carefully god knows when i will have that sort of money again.Anyway i am a keen photographer and would like a pc for photo editing and home study ,aswell as the

Click to enlarge - 2 images i am thinking about this one but what spec ?

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Choose Your Graphics Card:

ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB (- £139.10)Nvidia GeForce GTS 250 1024MB (- £134.76)ATI Radeon HD 4870 1024MB (- £121.71)ATI Radeon HD 5750 1024MB (- £112.15)ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB (- £104.33)Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 896MB (- £99.97)ATI Radeon HD 4890 1024MB (- £86.93)ATI Radeon HD 5850 1024MB (- £8.67)2x ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB Crossfire (£0.00)Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 1024MB (+ £39.15)ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024MB (+ £86.98)ATI Radeon HD 5970 2048MB (+ £252.20) Choose Your Operating System:

No Operating System (- £69.56)Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit OEM (- £0.00)Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit OEM (£0.00)Windows 7 Professional 32 bit OEM (+ £24.34)Windows 7 Professional 64 bit OEM (+ £24.34)Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit OEM (+ £58.26)Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit OEM (+ £58.26) Choose Your Case:

Coolermaster Elite 335 (£0.00)Antec 300 (+ £8.69)Lancool Dragon-Lord K58 (+ £20.87)Lancool K7C Champagne (+ £33.91)Lancool Dragon-Lord K62 Windowed (+ £42.61)Antec 902 (+ £50.43)Antec 1200 (+ £86.08) Choose Your Hard Drive:

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB (£0.00)Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB (+ £26.08)Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB (+ £46.08)10+ in stock

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norm i am leaving spec of one i like on overclockers.Please what do i pick want as good as it gets for 1000.00 pound.

£1037.94 inc VAT

£902.56 ex VAT

 

Choose Your Graphics Card:

ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB (- £139.10)Nvidia GeForce GTS 250 1024MB (- £134.76)ATI Radeon HD 4870 1024MB (- £121.71)ATI Radeon HD 5750 1024MB (- £112.15)ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB (- £104.33)Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 896MB (- £99.97)ATI Radeon HD 4890 1024MB (- £86.93)ATI Radeon HD 5850 1024MB (- £8.67)2x ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB Crossfire (£0.00)Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 1024MB (+ £39.15)ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024MB (+ £86.98)ATI Radeon HD 5970 2048MB (+ £252.20)

Choose Your Operating System:

No Operating System (- £69.56)Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit OEM (- £0.00)Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit OEM (£0.00)Windows 7 Professional 32 bit OEM (+ £24.34)Windows 7 Professional 64 bit OEM (+ £24.34)Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit OEM (+ £58.26)Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit OEM (+ £58.26)

Choose Your Case:

Coolermaster Elite 335 (£0.00)Antec 300 (+ £8.69)Lancool Dragon-Lord K58 (+ £20.87)Lancool K7C Champagne (+ £33.91)Lancool Dragon-Lord K62 Windowed (+ £42.61)Antec 902 (+ £50.43)Antec 1200 (+ £86.08)

Choose Your Hard Drive:

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB (£0.00)Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB (+ £26.08)Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB (+ £46.08)

10+ in stock

Stock Code: FS-030-OE

Case Performance Gaming Case Options

Graphics Card ATI & Nvidia Graphics Card Options

Hard Drive Performance 7200RPM Options

Memory Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 (1600MHz) Tri-Channel

Motherboard Gigabyte EX58-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard

Optical Drive LG GH22NS30 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter

Power Supply Corsair TX 650W ATX2.2 SLI Compliant PSU

Processor Intel Core i7 920 2.66Ghz D0 Overclocked to 3.40GHz!

Processor Cooler Akasa AK-967 Nero Direct Contact Heatpipe CPU Cooler

Sound Card 7.1 High Definition OnBoard Sound Card

Other Arctic Silver 5 heatsink compound professionally hand installed by our technicians

Warranty 1 Year Onsite Collect & Return Warranty

Edited December 20, 2009 by amy65

[Tootech]

Hi,

 

I can't make much sense of the info as it is very crowded together. What I can tell you is that you ought not get carried away with graphics card spec for what you use the PC for.

 

I play with photographic images using Lightroom, Photoshop and Microsoft Media Expression and my PC isn't anywhere near those spec's, and has an ATI HD2600 512MB fiitted - runs just fine.

 

Go with Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit, 4Gb memory, 500GB+ hard drive. Any half decent video card will work ok - is it a DVI output you need? Check it will fit your monitor, if not you'll need a DVI/VGA adapter.

 

Personally I wouldn't spend that amount of money on a PC, alot of the new systems are well quick enough for what you need. Have a look at this for example

 

HP Pavilion P6235UK Desktop - Desktops at Ebuyer

 

There are other good deals around - Acer's are good machines and for £650 you get a pretty good spec.

 

Hopefully others will input on this thread so you get a 'rounded' view of your options :)

[Plastic Nev]

Hi, for my two pence worth, I intend buying a new machine in the new year, mainly for the higher processing speeds given by the newer machines with dual or quad core processing. Each core doesn't run that fast, but can process more in the same time so appear to run faster. It is the ability to process more data over a given time that will be important for me as recently I have been doing quite a bit with a video camera. I personally see that a separate graphics card may not be all that beneficial even for that work.

So may buy a manufactured machine rather than do a build, however I am not ruling that out yet.

Nev.