[250-300] Office rig for graphic design

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?

Danny75 · 30 Mar 2015 at 20:58

Whytey said:
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?

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.

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?

Danny75 · 3 Apr 2015 at 17:04

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

Very welcome.

Whytey said:
Is it worth updating the bios and possibly overclocking the APU?

I always update the BIOS, but if it works without issues there is no real need to.

You'll have to see for yourself if you get any noticeable gains from overclocking, and how much you can overclock with the stock cooler.