Dell UK or Custom Build - £500 Budget...

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mapollo

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Bit of help reqd if possible please.

So I'm in the UK and have a £500 Budget for a new desktop PC. The budget is just for the PC (which would have to include include Windows 7). I don't need monitor,keyboard, Mouse etc.

Machine is mainly for Photoshop CS5. Photography is my hobby I've just bought a Canon 5dMK2 which produce images in the region of 20MB+, some video editing and internet. No gaming.

I can get a machine from dell for about £500 that I think would do the job BUT

I built my last PC myself with help from people on this site around 5 years ago. I have the confidence to put the machine together once I have the parts BUT I don't have the knowledge to choose the parts initally.

So does anyone fancy doing me a spec for a machine to suit my needs remembering I'm UK based.

Persuade me to self build :)

TIA David....
 
£523
Casecom 6788
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/172779

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium - OEM
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/173791

OCZ Stealth Xtream 500W PSU
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/135159

Sony DVD+-R/RW/DL AD-7260S-0B SATA
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/220988

Gigabyte GA-MA770T-ES3 (I would recommend you get AMD 870 chipset if you could spend little extra)
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/194682

HIS HD 4670 IceQ Edition 1GB
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/177121

AMD Athlon 635 II X4 (If you really stay within budget, get Athlon IIx3 440. But quad core would be better for photo editing)
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/191956

Crucial 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/191175

Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3 1TB
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/173804
 
Thanks for your reply

OK you persuaded me to self build (that was easy wasn't it) :)

Quad core it will be I don't mind going a little over budget.

It's been suggested to me that I consider multiple hard drives. One say for OS and programs, one for my images and video and a small one as a scratch disk for Photoshop.

Have you (or anyone) got any thoughts on this? Good idea or bad? Can you get say 40GB hard drives these days for OS or scratch disk.

On my present machine I have a 5 year old HDD. Its a WDC WD2000JB-22GVC0.
Would using the above drive for say the OS disk or Scratch Disk cause any problems (regarding speed)? Is it wise to use a 5 yr old HDD on a new build? I'm thinking maybe not.
 
OK, I've partitioned a hard drive on my current machine and to do it again did cross my mind BUT would there be any difference in performance compared to using multiple hard drives????
 
A bit over budget but i think it will be better.

Intel Core i5 750 2.66GHz Socket LGA1156 8MB L3 Cache Retail Boxed Processor
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/172755

ASUS P7H55-M PRO H55 Socket 1156 i5/i7/i3 DVI VGA HDMI Out 8 CHannel Audio MATX Motherboard
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/190022

G-Skill 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz/PC3-12800 Ripjaw Memory Kit CL7(7-8-7-24) 1.65V
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/180490

ASUS HD 4670 512MB DDR3 DVI VGA HDMI Out PCI-E Graphics Card
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/181962

The rest same as daisymtc.. :)

Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 32MB Cache - OEM
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/173804

OCZ Stealth Xtream 500W PSU - 1x PCI-E 6/8pin, 2x SATA 12cm Fan
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/135159

Casecom 6788 Black Mid Tower Case with Full Black Interior/Exterior 120mm Blue LED Front Fan - No PSU
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/172779

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium - Licence and media - 1 PC - OEM - DVD - 64-bit - English
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/173791

Total with 5 day del option...££607.44
 
mapollo said:
Thanks for your reply

OK you persuaded me to self build (that was easy wasn't it) :)

Quad core it will be I don't mind going a little over budget.

It's been suggested to me that I consider multiple hard drives. One say for OS and programs, one for my images and video and a small one as a scratch disk for Photoshop.

Have you (or anyone) got any thoughts on this? Good idea or bad? Can you get say 40GB hard drives these days for OS or scratch disk.

On my present machine I have a 5 year old HDD. Its a WDC WD2000JB-22GVC0.
Would using the above drive for say the OS disk or Scratch Disk cause any problems (regarding speed)? Is it wise to use a 5 yr old HDD on a new build? I'm thinking maybe not.
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Your old HDD would probably be slower than current one. You could make the HDD into Partition. Say C drive with 80Gb for OS & all porgramme and the rest for storage.
I specify 1TB drive because you say you do a bit of photo editing. And I think those photo take quite a bit of space. However, you can save £10 - 15 on HDD if you don't need that much of space.

BTW, core i5 750 suggested by Nevakonaza is a better machine. But that is more expensive.
 
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