Build for Photo Editing (semi Pro) Big Budget

Randall8686

Randall8686

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Hi All

Well i have been given the task of Building a Machine for a Photographer (thats his job) / Graphics Editor
He will use his machine for Editing photos and creating graphics and video Editing (HD stuff) Wont be used for gaming but I believe he will still want a good graphics card for HD video stuff ???

Current system will then be used for gaming its a Q6600 system with 8gb of ram and he has outgrown it now

Here is the Fun Part budget for Just tower is £2000 +- 10% :eek::eek:

Obviously this is his Job so has to be 100% stable and does not really want to overclock.

Storage is not too much of a issue as he has NAS storage but wants at least 5TB local storage on the machine. (god knows why)

Case i will let him choose so lets take £100 out the build for a case.

He does not want to go Apple for some strange reason as i thought that was better for these tasks.

He already has W7 prof 64 bit retail.

the application drive will have about 200gb of apps installed so im thinking SSD for this ?

What do you think ? Needs to be build this weekend without fail so i gotta get moving on this.

I have put a spec together my self but would be interesting to see what you would do with this kinda cash.

Any questions about usage let me know i can call him and ask. (he also has no idea how to build a system and i clean his machine out every 6 months as he really is not interested in hardware so has to be maintenance free
 
Randall8686 said:
He does not want to go Apple because he knows its hideously overpriced for what you get
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fixed :D

but, on a serious note i do have a question. why dies he not want to make his super incredible machine a gaming machine too, because we are going to struggle to spend £2000 on the tower (i assume he has his own high spec monitor)

*edit*
i honestly cant find a single place to make this more reliable, faster or better in any way that is sensible for what he is doing.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 512GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £669.98
1 x Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor £254.99
1 x Asus P8Z68-V Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £139.94
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 460 HAWK "Super-OC" 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £127.99
1 x Intel 311 Series 20GB 2.5" SATA-II SLC 25nm Solid State Drive £89.99
1 x Lancool Dragon-Lord PC-K62 Mid Tower Case with Window - Black £84.98
1 x XFX 650W XXX Edition Modular Power Supply £81.98
2 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £62.39
3 x Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB SATA-II 64MB Cache - OEM (WD20EARS) £54.98
1 x Thermalright Silver Arrow CPU Cooler (Socket LGA1366/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA775/AM2/AM3) £50.99
1 x LiteOn IHAS124-19 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
1 x Akasa Dual 2.5" SSD/HDD Mounting Kit £6.98
Total : £1,831.06 (includes shipping : £13.75).


big SSD is for all his apps, and is big enough to function as a scratch disk too. small SSD is for the Z68 motherboard's smart cache feature as it is an SLC drive, rather than an MLC drive, which means it can survive more reads and writes. also included a bracket so that they can both be mounted in one 3.5 inch bay

the small SSD is the first thing i would remove if you wanted to save money, along with the bracket, because this is the kind of thing you would want if you are planning to use the SSD for several years as a caching drive

it has 6TB of storage as requested, but how he will use it all up i really dont know.

he will be able to overclock the processor to 4.8Ghz quite easily, but if you leave it at 4.6Ghz or less it will run until the end of the universe

*edit*
swapped big SSD for a bigger one to use it as a scratch disk as well as for apps
 
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Oh I don't know.... :)

Right:
2600K obvious choice for any type of work (could get away with the non-"k" if there absolutely no overclocking.)
Antec 620 - cool and quiet
Asrock Z68 Extreme4 - Solid board, haven't heard any complaints as of yet.
16GB RAM - Video Editing has the ability of hitting that!
120GB SSD - Windows and editing programs
300GB SSD - For a scratch disk, decent read and write speeds.
2 x 3TB HDDs - for Data storage (could get 5 Samsungs but no point as speed isn't an issue with the SSDs)

Which leaves £450 for a graphics card, case and some fans to blow over the drives.


YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel 320 Series 300GB 2.5" SATA-II 25nm Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £419.99
1 x Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor £254.99
1 x Corsair Force Series 3 120GB SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (CSSD-F120GB3-BK) £184.99
1 x Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £144.98
2 x Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD30EZRX) £124.99
1 x XFX 750W Black Edition Modular Power Supply £99.98
2 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £62.39
1 x Antec Kúhler H2O 620 CPU Watercooler (Socket Intel LGA 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AMD AM2 / AM3 / AM2+ / AM3+) £46.98
1 x LiteOn IHAS324-32 24x DVD±RW ReWriter SATA (Black) - Retail £19.99
Total : £1,558.67 (includes shipping : £10.00).
 
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Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Crucial RealSSD M4 512GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £669.98
(£558.32) £669.98
(£558.32)
Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor £254.99
(£212.49) £254.99
(£212.49)
OcUK GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £249.98
(£208.32) £249.98
(£208.32)
Lian Li PC-Z60 Diamond Series Midi Tower Case - Black £199.99
(£166.66) £199.99
(£166.66)
Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £144.98
(£120.82) £144.98
(£120.82)
BeQuiet Dark Power Pro P9 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £136.98
(£114.15) £136.98
(£114.15)
Corsair Hydro H80 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/LGA2011/AM2/AM3) £84.98
(£70.82) £84.98
(£70.82)
Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £62.39
(£51.99) £62.39
(£51.99)
Samsung SpinPoint F4 EcoGreen 2TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD204UI) £53.99
(£44.99) £53.99
(£44.99)
Samsung SH-B123L/BSBP 12x BluRay ROM / 16x DVD±RW Lightscribe SATA-II Optical Drive - Black (OEM) £46.98
(£39.15) £46.98
(£39.15)
Sub Total : £1,587.71
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £12.50
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £320.04
Total : £1,920.25
 
R088ieS86 said:
Oh I don't know.... :)

Right:
120GB SSD - Windows and editing programs
300GB SSD - For a scratch disk, recent read and write speeds.
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would it not be sensible to get the 311 series for the scratch disk, as thats what its been designed for (i assume scratch disk means a disk for the caching, but i could be very wrong here)

*edit*
stulid, may i assume that the case you have selected is the replacement 'i have a massivly expensive PC' case now that the silverstone is not being stocked?
 
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hmmm you refering to SSD caching?
A scratch disk is a place to store your temp files. in the case of photo and video editing, files you're working on. It makes it quicker to load them - when you have finished you save them to your mechanical drives.
 
Reaper 392 said:
*edit*
stulid, may i assume that the case you have selected is the replacement 'i have a massivly expensive PC' case now that the silverstone is not being stocked?
Click to expand...

Just like the looks, Lian-Li always scream quality.


In fact,

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-262-LL


Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Crucial RealSSD M4 512GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £669.98
(£558.32) £669.98
(£558.32)
Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor £254.99
(£212.49) £254.99
(£212.49)
OcUK GeForce GTX 570 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £249.98
(£208.32) £249.98
(£208.32)
Lian Li PC-U6B Special Edition Midi Tower Case - Black/Red £229.99
(£191.66) £229.99
(£191.66)
BeQuiet Dark Power Pro P9 850W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £136.98
(£114.15) £136.98
(£114.15)
Gigabyte Z68MA-D2H Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £109.99
(£91.66) £109.99
(£91.66)
Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £62.39
(£51.99) £62.39
(£51.99)
Samsung SpinPoint F4 EcoGreen 2TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD204UI) £53.99
(£44.99) £53.99
(£44.99)
Samsung SH-B123L/BSBP 12x BluRay ROM / 16x DVD±RW Lightscribe SATA-II Optical Drive - Black (OEM) £46.98
(£39.15) £46.98
(£39.15)
BeQuiet Dark Rock Advanced CPU Cooler (Socket LGA 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366, AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / 754 / 939 / 940) £42.98
(£35.82) £42.98
(£35.82)
Sub Total : £1,548.55
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.75
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £312.06
Total : £1,872.36
 
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R088ieS86 said:
hmmm you refering to SSD caching?
A scratch disk is a place to store your temp files. in the case of photo and video editing, files you're working on. It makes it quicker to load them - when you have finished you save them to your mechanical drives.
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ah right. yes i was referring to the caching.

not really sure how much space he would need for that, but if his apps + OS take up ~200GB, then surely the remaining 56GB will be fine for a scratch disk
 
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