£600-700 spec - urgent

AHarvey

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Hi all,

I've got the chance to get a new pc for work, and they are paying.

Currently it's some celeron £299 Argos thing that is beyond terrible.

Issue is I need the spec asap so it can be spoken about tomorrow in a meeting and I've not built a PC in about 2 years so well behind the technology.

Budget is £600-700. It doesn't need monitors, keyboard or mouse. Everything else is required.

It'll be used for graphical work, maybe some video work, programming and web dev as well as general office stuff.

Storage isn't a massive concern as most things are in the cloud here.

case doesn't matter what it looks like as long as it's functional. Speed and responsiveness are the most important.

Self build too, either myself or someone in IT. OS needed Win 7 - 10
 
My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £764.38
(includes shipping: £12.60)
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Slightly over the £700 but would something like this be ok?
 
I think it should do the job ok. The only thing probably lacking a bit is the GPU and I base that only in that its a fairly low end card for gaming capability but I have no idea how that translates into requirements for what ever your graphical work is. An extra £125 on the GPU would make a considerable difference for gaming performance if that is relative?
 
heartburnron said:
I think it should do the job ok. The only thing probably lacking a bit is the GPU and I base that only in that its a fairly low end card for gaming capability but I have no idea how that translates into requirements for what ever your graphical work is. An extra £125 on the GPU would make a considerable difference for gaming performance if that is relative?
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Thanks :)

I've dropped the Windows CD + DVD drive, turns out that work already have a windows licence.

I've put the extra cash spent towards a 960 graphics card.

Just waiting for meeting now to find out if my manager can get the ok for it, otherwise, I am stuck using a Celeron and running home every time I need to do something demanding
 
Sorry to be a killjoy but OcUK probably isn't the right place to get a work computer. A Z170 motherboard, K CPU, and 370 GPU are a bit gamery. Overclocking and work don't go together in my mind.

Doesn't your work have an IT supplier already? Going with them will be simpler for warranty, maintenance, billing, etc. Failing that I'd buy a prebuilt office PC with a decent warranty, a huge company beginning with D comes to mind.
 
joeyjojo said:
Sorry to be a killjoy but OcUK probably isn't the right place to get a work computer. A Z170 motherboard, K CPU, and 370 GPU are a bit gamery. Overclocking and work don't go together in my mind.

Doesn't your work have an IT supplier already? Going with them will be simpler for warranty, maintenance, billing, etc. Failing that I'd buy a prebuilt office PC with a decent warranty, a huge company beginning with D comes to mind.
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For a normal office PC i'd agree, but they want graphics making and videos creating and editing so I need something with some umph and the IT dept here aren't the greatest, our call center are using old laptops running XP and Vista...I don't have a lot of faith i'll get the ok for this otherwise they are going to have to let me work from home more to get it done.

One of the guys here does know someone from Dell so they are going to take the spec and see what they can do for us but i'd rather get it from OCUK as I'll have it within a day and can easily get it built and ready for work.
 
Fair enough. I'd look along these lines (add a case of your choice).

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £605.98
(includes shipping: £11.10)
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Lartyconshayo said:
Don't think he needs windows as per his earlier post. So could get better gfx card with the 90 saved
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Makes no difference, there's nothing I'd add to that spec whatever the budget. Maybe a larger SSD.

The GPU only has a small chance of being used during video editing as is, a more powerful one is pointless without knowing more about the software and workflow. For instance, CUDA vs. OpenCL.
 
dirtybeatfreak said:
If it were me, I would be looking at the Haswell/Devils Canyon chipsets over the Skylake. They are much more suited to video editing, photographic work imo
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Why's that?

DC and Skylake aren't chipsets by the way. The chipset for DC was Wildcat Point and the chipset for Skylake is Sunrise Point.
 
joeyjojo said:
Why's that?

DC and Skylake aren't chipsets by the way. The chipset for DC was Wildcat Point and the chipset for Skylake is Sunrise Point.
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Talk about pedantry :rolleyes:... You and anyone else reading knew what I meant. In any case, most times the chipset platforms are for a specific set of CPUs so you could argue that the CPU is part of the chipset architecture. You even said as much yourself.

And my reasoning is higher caches, threads, more cores, memory bandwidth etc, all which can be beneficial for heavy work like video editing etc. It is for a machine at work so is likely to be using the higher end software which all utilize the multiple threads etc.

EDIT: That said, OP is using a Celeron atm :D
 
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I did have those in mind too but not primarily nah :) I thought something like an i7-4790 with HT (which is haswell/devils canyon) will perform better for coding or video editing etc over an i5??

This seems to support my theory? - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1260?vs=1646


disclaimer: I might be getting a little mixed with the haswell/devils canyon thing because for some reason I thought there were only 2 cpus which were devils canyon but they were basically haswells with a couple of different changes (heat and voltages iirc).

I am probably completely wrong, so will just shut it hehe:)
 
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