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Hey guys. Ive been asked to do a build for my GF's dad and would like some advice. He went to dell and specced an i5 machine for £700 which was a complete rip off (poor dell components etc). Although he hasn't set a budget Simply as cheap as possible for his uses. Ill set the budget at a flexable £500.
Uses: photo editing - hes a professional photographer for the NHS. He does a lot of editing for family, as do his daughters. He also wants to do some encoding of old videos, although this is a secondary task but should still be looked at.
Notes: I don't mind overclocking the system if need be, but I would prefer not to as I would like to keep heat and noise down if possible.
Components needed: pretty much everything including windows7. He's using an old Pentium 4 (donno socket) atm, so very little can be salvaged. Only thing not needed is a monitor.
The main thing I want to know is, is it worth going AMD over intel to save that extra cash. i5 is appealing because it can shutdown unused cores meaning that overclocking can be avoided.
I was also going to try and add in a USB3 PCI-E card (bit-tech recently reviewed) since transfer speeds would be handy. Anyone used or have any comments on a USB3 card at this time?
Thanks for your help in advance.
Uses: photo editing - hes a professional photographer for the NHS. He does a lot of editing for family, as do his daughters. He also wants to do some encoding of old videos, although this is a secondary task but should still be looked at.
Notes: I don't mind overclocking the system if need be, but I would prefer not to as I would like to keep heat and noise down if possible.
Components needed: pretty much everything including windows7. He's using an old Pentium 4 (donno socket) atm, so very little can be salvaged. Only thing not needed is a monitor.
The main thing I want to know is, is it worth going AMD over intel to save that extra cash. i5 is appealing because it can shutdown unused cores meaning that overclocking can be avoided.
I was also going to try and add in a USB3 PCI-E card (bit-tech recently reviewed) since transfer speeds would be handy. Anyone used or have any comments on a USB3 card at this time?
Thanks for your help in advance.
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