£600 Photoshop Rig

Supermellow

Supermellow

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Hey guys - Building a rig for a family member this week and I would just like a confirmation on my choices.

The rig will be used for photoshop editing and browsing only - no gaming.

Maximum budget is to be £600 inc. delivery.

Build so far
Processor - i5 3750k
Mobo - Z77-D3H
PSU - XFX Pro 550w Core Edition
RAM - Geil Black Dragon 8GB
SSD (OS only) - Intel 330 60GB
HDD - Caviar Black 1TB
OS - Windows Home Premium
Delivery @ 10

Total = 574.93

I have a case/ DVD drive/ Cooler already.

The system will not be overclocked initially but thought it would be nice to give it a boost in a years time.

I have gone for the 3750 as it has the HD4000 integrated graphics as budget will not allow for a GPU.

His current system is a pre-built Packard Bell unit with a Q8200 @2.33Ghz and 2GB of RAM.

Any thoughts on the above?

Cheers

SM
 
Hey Doomspeed,

Cooler is a Prolimatech Panther so will be fine for the overclock.

Photoshopping wont be very heavy but the 430 sounds like a good idea - I will have a scout about later to see what I can find.
Would it maker a noticeable difference to have one installed, even if it was just a 430 or similar?
 
 
Supermellow said:
Hey Doomspeed,

Cooler is a Prolimatech Panther so will be fine for the overclock.

Photoshopping wont be very heavy but the 430 sounds like a good idea - I will have a scout about later to see what I can find.
Would it maker a noticeable difference to have one installed, even if it was just a 430 or similar?
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It should just speed up processing of images and make them a bit clearer..

honosuseri said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £179.99
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 128GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-128M5P) £99.95
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £79.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x **B Grade** Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD1002FAEX) £46.99
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £39.95
1 x GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEL38GB1600C9DC) £35.99
Total : £574.85 (includes shipping : £10.00).

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Take a Bow My friend, Take a Bow. :)
 
Doomedspeed said:
Take a Bow My friend, Take a Bow. :)
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Thanks bud :) 16GB of RAM is possible to the budget with the kits on offer at the mo ;)

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £179.99
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 128GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-128M5P) £99.95
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £79.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CML16GX3M2A1600C10) £59.99
1 x **B Grade** Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD1002FAEX) £46.99
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £39.95
Total : £598.85 (includes shipping : £10.00).



SSD is higher capacity than the 330, more reliable controller and better speeds (do the firmware update too btw). HDD is B grade but a bargain, 16GB of RAM, still with better timings than the Geil kit. 450W PSU is more than ample even if he decides to drop in a dedicated GPU later
 
All looks good to me apart but not sure about the B grade HDD, but I suppose it is refurbished so should be no different to the new product.

Thanks for all the help guys - think I will be ordering tonight.

SM
 
Doomedspeed said:
How heavy is a photoshopping? it might be worth trying to get a second hand Nivida GPU, A 430 or something. Just to use CUDA. :)
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Photoshop doesn't use CUDA, and the GPU acceleration doesn't work very well on Windows 8 either :( Not sure if that was the OS the OP was intending on.
 
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