[250-300] Office rig for graphic design

Whytey · 24 Mar 2015 at 17:00

Looking to build two identical rigs for creating graphics, and general office tasks nothing too expensive at the moment around £250-300.
I haven't built a rig in quite a few years so i'm not too sure what to go for e.g. AMD/Intel ATI/Nvidia. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Whytey · 24 Mar 2015 at 17:36

We're on the bare minimum at the moment. So i don't particularly want to spend any more than £300.
I'm not too sure about the GPU. My home system uses a 5850. Not sure would would compare to that now or whats better..

Whytey · 24 Mar 2015 at 20:26

Photoshop, Illustrator etc..

Whytey · 24 Mar 2015 at 21:00

Not sure on the mobo/ram/psu

Whytey · 26 Mar 2015 at 16:09

Thanks for the spec @gradyhawks how does that CPU compare to the old i3 from a few years ago? i'm currently running that.

Whytey · 27 Mar 2015 at 17:28

Any good alternatives that will fit, around the same price?

Whytey · 29 Mar 2015 at 23:01

We're thinking about going with the i3 build. Do you think that would be the fastest build overall?

Whytey · 30 Mar 2015 at 20:53

Danny75 said:
i5.

But if using OpenCL, a Kaveri would be faster (unless you added a discrete GPU) for Photoshop/Illustrator.

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Kaveri 7700K 10 Compute Core APU w/ Radeon R7 Graphics (4 CPU + 6 GPU Compute Cores) - Retail £99.95
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLRED38G2400HC11CDC01) £49.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A88XM-HD3 AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £49.99
1 x SK Hynix 128GB SSD SH910A SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (HFS128G32MNB-2201A) £44.99
1 x EVGA 430W 80 Plus Power Supply (100-W1-0430-KR) £32.99
1 x Zalman T3 Micro -ATX Case USB 3.0 - Black £16.99
Total : £304.50 (includes shipping : £8.00).

So what you have to consider is if you'll be upgrading at all (adding a GPU), as you'll end up with better performance with Intel + GPU (say an R7 260X or so). Otherwise Kaveri.

I think we're going to go for the Kaveri build but the motherboard is out of stock is there any similar ones or is that the best one out of them all?

Whytey · 2 Apr 2015 at 11:06

Danny75 said:
No, not the best, just seems good value for money.

This Asus is in stock and has four memory slots, handy for adding more RAM.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus A88XM-PLUS AMD A88X (Socket FM2+) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £56.99

Make sure to get 2133/2400MHz RAM.

We decided to go for the Kaveri with the ASUS, thanks for the help

Is it worth updating the bios and possibly overclocking the APU?