What would £2500 get me

rutter1985 · 9 May 2013 at 11:57

Hello peeps.
I need a new pc, from overclockers uk, what would £2500 get me? it needs to be futreproof=upgradeable, im not a massive gamer but would like it to play up to date games would like it to be water cooled , my main reason for a pc is to edit photgraphs with photoshop.
would like to see peoples ideas weather it would be intel or amd
thanks
cant wait to hear your ideas.

Just to let you know i was going to get a imac 3.4GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz so would like better than this

Chris-.- · 9 May 2013 at 11:57

Should get your post moved to hardware section or prebuilts.

Craig1981 · 9 May 2013 at 11:59

I imagine £2500 would get you a pretty high end setup. I paid less than that for my current PC and its still got good performance on new games a couple of years later.

wingman · 9 May 2013 at 11:59

rutter1985 said:
it needs to be futreproof=upgradeable

Nothing is future proof

rutter1985 · 9 May 2013 at 12:03

oops how do i move this ? or will have to write it again

Mark A · 9 May 2013 at 12:05

£2500 PC to edit photographs? Don't be silly.

rutter1985 · 9 May 2013 at 12:06

not just for photos want it for gaming to

Cosimo · 9 May 2013 at 12:08

You need to ask this question in General Hardware.

rutter1985 · 9 May 2013 at 12:09

jsmoke · 9 May 2013 at 12:09

Just PC or do you need monitor, keyboard etc?

elmarko · 9 May 2013 at 12:10

What could it get you?, a fantastic PC for £1500 & £1000 to put into savings, donate to charity, put towards a holiday or any other better use.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminishing_returns

Or you could get a £1000 PC & one of these bad-boys (depending on how much photo-shop you intend to use & how seriously).

wannabedamned · 9 May 2013 at 12:12

I would say spend 1500 on it, and leave a thousand over for upgrades as and when needed.

Say in 6 months if you see a frame rate drop, sell a component, add the funds to your upgrade funds, purchase the replacement, see a frame rate increase with newer tech and not much cost.

Rinse and repeat until you need to spend 1500 again on a new rig. At which point, you'll already have savings for it, and a previous semi decent spec to sell to add to the funding the new machine.

rutter1985 · 9 May 2013 at 12:14

need good monitor for photos.i was looking at dell ultra sharp but dont no if its good for gaming to

rutter1985 · 9 May 2013 at 12:18

how do i delete a thread and move this one to right place

Gibbo3771 · 9 May 2013 at 12:23

More than needed, you can get a top end 2011 socket build with water cooling, utterly overkill.

1500 would get you what you need bud.

Wait for Haswell.

Idleman · 9 May 2013 at 12:41

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1 x Asus PB278Q 27" Professional LED Multimedia Monitor - Black £499.99
1 x Intel Core i7-3820 3.60GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail £259.99
2 x HIS HD 7950 IceQ BOOST 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H795QC3G2M) £251.99 (£503.98)
1 x Gigabyte X79-UP4 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £209.99
1 x Toshiba SSD HG5D Series 7mm 256GB Solid State Hard Drive - (THNSNH256GCST) £179.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian 650D Gaming Midi Tower - Black £149.99
1 x Samsung Green 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz 30nm Dual/Quad Channel Kit (MV-3V4G3D/US) £123.98
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £103.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST3000DM001) HDD £99.95
1 x XFX 750W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £83.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00403) £79.99
1 x LG BH16NS40 16x SATA Internal BDRW - Retail £79.99
Total : £2,402.46 (includes shipping : £22.20).

Forgot to add this.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Akasa USB 3.0 internal adapter cable (AK-CBUB09-15BK) £5.99
Total : £8.27 (includes shipping : £1.90).

Stelly · 9 May 2013 at 12:42

As if by magic

Stelly

CREATIVE!11 · 9 May 2013 at 13:04

Idleman said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus PB278Q 27" Professional LED Multimedia Monitor - Black £499.99
1 x Intel Core i7-3820 3.60GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail £259.99
2 x HIS HD 7950 IceQ BOOST 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H795QC3G2M) £251.99 (£503.98)
1 x Gigabyte X79-UP4 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £209.99
1 x Toshiba SSD HG5D Series 7mm 256GB Solid State Hard Drive - (THNSNH256GCST) £179.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian 650D Gaming Midi Tower - Black £149.99
1 x Samsung Green 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz 30nm Dual/Quad Channel Kit (MV-3V4G3D/US) £123.98
1 x Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (Socket 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £103.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST3000DM001) HDD £99.95
1 x XFX 750W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply £83.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00403) £79.99
1 x LG BH16NS40 16x SATA Internal BDRW - Retail £79.99
Total : £2,402.46 (includes shipping : £22.20).

The monitor linked in this post is VERY good and to be honest essential if you are going to be working with any material which you need colour accuracy.

Akagi · 9 May 2013 at 13:15

CREATIVE!11 said:
The monitor linked in this post is VERY good and to be honest essential if you are going to be working with any material which you need colour accuracy.

Yeah, don't skimp on the monitor if you want to edit photo's and such

My BenQ panel, though it is fantastic for general use and gaming, is shown up by my old 20" Dell when it comes to colour accuracy.

pumaz · 9 May 2013 at 19:10

A nice holiday and a great PC