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CoxyBoy123

CoxyBoy123

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My current spec is sort of in the sig
I have a budget of a £1000, would love to keep it as much below that as possible
Spec me the best possible PC to run Adobe Master Collection, my current PC is sweating a bit and struggling :(
 
Actually, scratch that. Buy it individually and OC yourself.

What HDD's do you currently use?

For a boot drive, how big would you need? 64GB? or 128GB+
 
Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - OEM + Colin McRae Dirt 2 Full Game £199.99
(£173.90) £199.99
(£173.90)
Intel X25-M Mainstream 80GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (SSDSA2MH080G2C1) £192.99
(£167.82) £192.99
(£167.82)
Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £189.99
(£165.21) £189.99
(£165.21)
2 x Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 (1600MHz) Tri-Channel (TR3X6G1600C9) £117.99
(£102.60) £235.98 (12GB)
(£205.20)
Corsair H50-1 High-Performance CPU Watercooler (Socket LGA775/1156/1366/AM2/AM3) £56.99
(£49.56) £56.99
(£49.56)
Sub Total : £761.69
Shipping cost based on delivery to Home, *** *** with:
FREE SHIPPING (DPD Next Day)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : FREE
VAT is being charged at 15.00% VAT : £114.25
Total : £875.94
 
I have two 250gb Caviar blues in Raid 0
and a 720gb seagate storage drive
Well it would have windows 7 on it thats it
 
Im not sure about the graphics card helping, I just know that the i7 920 is a beast and is awesome at more or less every program.

What screen do you currently have?
 
CoxyBoy123 said:
A crrappy 19'' monitor :S
Anybody else know if a graphics card will help??
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TFT or CRT ?

What ever it is you would do with picking up a nice 24" TFT. It doesn't have to be super expensive either. You should beable to pick one up for around £150.

As for graphics card, personally I would go the Nvidia route, which one, I will let others decide. (There are a lot of ATI fanboys around here but I bet many are just gamers)
 
do you think there is a need for a dual monitor set up??
I am not doing any gaming, so would i benefit from upgrading graphics card
 
CoxyBoy123 said:
do you think there is a need for a dual monitor set up??
I am not doing any gaming, so would i benefit from upgrading graphics card
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You can run at max 1920 x 1200 resolution on a single 24" TFT display so, if you have double that then thats really useful for video editing and after effects stuff and whether you prefer to reference stuff on an additional monitor while working on one or using different applications at the same time without tabbing between applications on the one screen.

Probably not if you are not gaming. If you are just using stuff like Photoshop and After Effects then the graphics card you already have should be fine with what you have.

You can hold off with graphics card till early next year where Nvidia will be adding their new Direct x11 range.
 
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