Ultimate PC for creative design

gabsta69 · 26 Nov 2009 at 11:55

Hi everyone,

My manager has asked me to look into what would be the best PC in a £2000 budget for creative designers.

I need the best pc to be able to run editing software for movies, images, needs to laugh at the face of indesign and run super smooth.

All suggestions welcome.

Thanks in advance.

Gab

nightwish · 26 Nov 2009 at 12:10

I'll probably get flamed, but the new 27" iMac comes in at a tad under £2k I think. I don't have one, but a friend has just got one and it looks quite nice.

95thrifles · 26 Nov 2009 at 12:11

Pretty much this, use SSD as boot drive and run the 2 WDs in RAID1

Shakeel · 26 Nov 2009 at 14:24

if your not going to oc you might as well use the stock cooler. same thing with the motherboard. just get cheaper gigabyte motherboard

TheTard · 26 Nov 2009 at 19:31

or you could go for an overclocked bundle, take all the hard work out =]

Xelene · 26 Nov 2009 at 20:00

Don't see the point of crossfiring graphics cards for design work, there's no benefit.

I7 with as much RAM as you can fit, SSD boot drive and a big Scratch drive. Then spend what you have left over on a *good* 400+ Screen. Peripherals are important too, if they freehand then a tablet is important.