£600 system spec

AHarvey

AHarvey

AHarvey

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Hi all,

I've £600 to spend on a system that needs to cover gaming, developing, and more importantly, editing photos (15-20mb each) and videos.

I've a case, 700w modular psu, keyboard, mouse and 2 x 24 inch monitors.

Any suggestions on what would be a decent spec, or the type of thing I should be looking for? Storage isn't so important, but would be a plus :)
 
- depends on a few things.
- Can your case take long cards?
- Do you have a OS?
- Do you already have a high capacity SATA drive?
- Do you already have a optical SATA drive?
- Do you need stuff like firewire / esata for your video capturing?

Assuming "yes" :D


YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560Ti OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £204.98
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £173.99
1 x MSI P67A-C45 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £104.99
1 x G.Skill RipJawsX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (F3-12800CL8D-8GBXM) £77.99
1 x Titan Fenrir Evo CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1156//LGA1366/AMD K8/AM2/AM2+/AM3) £36.76
Total : £610.70 (includes shipping : £10.00).



- i5-2500K,
- P67 motherboard
- high-mid graphics card
- 3rd party cooler
- 8 gigs of ram for video and image editing comfort.

If you do need all the stuff I didn't include, you'll have to make concessions.
- If overclocking is not an option, you can downgrade to i5-2400 retail and H67.
- Or downgrade the cooler to a less one, or even take the retail i5-2500k, which has a 3 year warranty as well (price not as good as a few days ago).
- You can swap to a GTX460 or GTX470, or go the ATI route for more choices across the range.
- You can get a Win 7 + HD bundle for under £98, saving around £10.
 
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Thanks for that, tbh, Yes to everything however, I never really looked in to esata, just transfer everything from cf card via USB :)

Thanks for that spec btw, would I get any real performance upgrade from going to the Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 over the i5?
 
I'd change the cooler, you won't be able to use the fan in "push" with the G-Skill RAM. I don't think it will fit over the top of the heat spreaders.
Akasa AK-CCX-4002HP Venom CPU Cooler
Shouldn't provide any problems.

Depends on the programs you use in deciding between the i5-2500K and the i7-2600K.
If they can use hyperthreading then the i7 will boost performance.
 
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