Sub £550 gaming/photoshop PC

bolosemi

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Looking to build a PC for photoshop & gaming which can handle the latest games like Battlefield 4, Batman-Arkham City.

Need pretty much everything apart from the usually mouse, keyboard, monitor etc.

Would like to stick with budget if possible. Spec me please
 
 
 
Doomedspeed said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS Radeon R9 270X IceQ BOOST 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £161.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £85.99
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £56.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 450W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £53.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £47.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x Raijintek Themis Direct Contact CPU Cooler £17.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.95
Total : £574.46 (includes shipping : £8.00).

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when he sells 4 games that come with CPU and 4 games with GPU, this one will make a great and cheap build.
 
Doomedspeed said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS Radeon R9 270X IceQ BOOST 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £161.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £85.99
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £56.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 450W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £53.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £47.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x Raijintek Themis Direct Contact CPU Cooler £17.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.95
Total : £574.46 (includes shipping : £8.00).

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It's a great setup, but my AMD chip was pants on when using PS. I'd recommend the 8-core from experience.
 
snips86x said:
It's a great setup, but my AMD chip was pants on when using PS. I'd recommend the 8-core from experience.
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The Problem with photoshop is its not FULLY multi-core yet..

Its still works on the idea of a powerful 'core' rather than a lot of smaller threaded cores (multi-core, hyperthreading)... So really AMD chips aren't ideal for the task.. Though it fits into the budget nicely.
 
Doomedspeed said:
The Problem with photoshop is its not FULLY multi-core yet..

Its still works on the idea of a powerful 'core' rather than a lot of smaller threaded cores (multi-core, hyperthreading)... So really AMD chips aren't ideal for the task.. Though it fits into the budget nicely.
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Yeah, that's the experience I've had. My 2500k smashes it now, wish I'd gotten one sooner.
 
Thanks for all the advice.

Thinking of going with ExRayTed reccommedation due to the better processor. Thinking of a better case and coolers.

1 x HIS Radeon R9 270X IceQ BOOST 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £161.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £113.99
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Antec VP450P 450W '80 Plus' Continuous Power Supply £41.99
1 x Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) HDD £38.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard III Gaming Case - Black £27.95
1 x OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
Total : £549.97 (includes shipping : £11.75).

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Get the AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor on Doomedspeed Post. Also do I need to change anything else if I do this

1 x HIS Radeon R9 270X IceQ BOOST 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £161.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £85.99
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £56.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 450W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £53.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £47.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99
1 x Raijintek Themis Direct Contact CPU Cooler £17.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.95
Total : £574.46 (includes shipping : £8.00).
 
You should get the faster RAM from my spec as it's cheaper, only problem is it's shown as 'due soon'

The superflower PSU is better than the Antec unit so get that. The corsair case is better than the xigmatek by a country mile, so definitely get that if you can afford it.

A third party cooler is recommended as the oem one is louder than a loud thing; the one doomedspeed recommended is a fine cooler
 
Give OCUK a ring in the morning and find out when it's coming back into stock. If its going to be a while go with the ram from Doomedspeed's spec
 
Would this work? I know it cost abit more!

TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01)
 
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