Advice on 2 seperate systems.

[Adaptive12]

Hi folks

I was wondering what advice you might have for me on building two seperate systems.

The first would be a dedicated image (and possibly video) editing machine, used in a photography studio for nothing but editing and checking websites.

The second would be used for a smaller amount of photographic editing, but big time gaming, and here audio is important too.

Ideally I'm looking for under £700 per machine. What advice do you guys have? And I'm not adverse to spending a little more if it significantly boosts performance, my last PC cost £1000 and was built 7 years ago and it's still going strong, but lacks dual/quadcores and the latest graphics styles, in fact I'm out of touch with building PC's these days so off the peg options are also a strong consideration

Cheers

Matt

 

[95thrifles]

First Rig - uses powerful CPU, 8 gig of RAM, 500 gig boot drive, and 2 storage drives, with a low spec NV gfx card, not sure if you can make use of CUDA or not

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM £169.99
Asus P8P67 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £124.99
GeIL 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz VALUE PLUS Dual Channel (GVP38GB1600C9DC) £83.99
OcUK GeForce GT 430 1024MB GDDR3 Low Profile PCI-Express Graphics Card £55.99
BeQuiet Pure Power L7 530W Power Supply £42.98
2 x Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £42.98
Silverstone SST-PS03B Precision Midi Tower Case - Black £40.84
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £27.98
LiteOn IHAS324-32 24x DVD±RW ReWriter SATA - (Black) Retail £19.99
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 939 / AM2 / AM3 / 775 / 1155/ 1156 / 1366) £19.39
Sub Total : £560.10
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.75
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £114.37
Total : £686.22

Second Rig - Still decent CPU, only need 4 gig of RAM, powerful gfx card, mobo and PSU would support addition of a 2nd card later if it were necessary, I know you said sound is important too but nowadays onboard sound is v good

MSI ATI Radeon HD 6950 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £199.98
Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5 AMD 890FX (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £139.99
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £106.99
XFX Pro 650W Core Edition Power Supply £68.99
Coolermaster HAF 912 Plus Case - Black £52.98
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £42.98
GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz VALUE PLUS Dual Channel (GVP34GB1600C9DC) £35.99
LiteOn IHAS324-32 24x DVD±RW ReWriter SATA - (Black) Retail £19.99
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 939 / AM2 / AM3 / 775 / 1155/ 1156 / 1366) £19.39
Sub Total : £572.74
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £12.50
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £117.05
Total : £702.29