Advisable Spec pease.

omeyas · 14 May 2009 at 20:31

Hi, looking for a tower only. Will mainly be used for general work, surfing etc,not a gamer, but the main use will be running photoshop. As a keen photographer, most days I am using photoshop, and as my camera is a Canon 5D MK2,and that produces very large file sizes. So really looking for something fairly quick, quiet, with perhaps two decent sized HD's. (not essential to have two as I have three external HD's for storage, 1TB,500GB and 250GB) Looking to spend around £600-700 max. I'd be grateful for any advice as regards a decent spec.
Thanks

siumatfung · 14 May 2009 at 20:33

are you an overclocker?

32bit or 64bit OS?

RJC · 14 May 2009 at 20:40

Spec any use:

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition 3.2GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £199.99
(£173.90) £199.99
(£173.90)

Gigabyte GA-MA780G-UD3H AMD 780G (Socket AM2+/AM3) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £79.99
(£69.56) £79.99
(£69.56)

Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103UJ) £72.99
(£63.47) £145.98
(£126.94)

Corsair VX 550W ATX Power Supply (CMPSU-550VXUK) £69.99
(£60.86) £69.99
(£60.86)

Lian Li PC-A07B Aluminium Midi-Tower - Black (No PSU) £66.69
(£57.99) £66.69
(£57.99)

Kingston HyperX 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel (KHX8500D2K2/4G) £43.99
(£38.25) £87.98
(£76.50)

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4350 512MB "Low Profile" DDR2 TV-Out/DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail £34.49
(£29.99) £34.49
(£29.99) Sub Total : £595.74 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 15% VAT : £91.24 Total : £699.48

siumatfung · 14 May 2009 at 20:49

siumatfung · 14 May 2009 at 21:11

RJC how the hell did you spend more than me?

RJC · 14 May 2009 at 21:13

siumatfung said:
RJC how the hell did you spend more than me?

Twice you done a ninja edit

Went for 8gb of Ram as he is photoshoping, bigger HD and £10.00 more on the board.

siumatfung · 14 May 2009 at 21:17

damn got caught but oh right but erm he did say he doesnt need lots of HDD space cos hes gots lots of external HDDs. but erm i was considering SSD hehe

siumatfung · 15 May 2009 at 15:13

i wonder where the guy who posted this threaad is

Kennysevenfold · 15 May 2009 at 15:41

My go

Product Name Qty Price Line Total

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 LGA775 'Yorkfield' 2.83GHz 12MB-cache (1333FSB) Processor - OEM £206.99
(£179.99) £206.99
(£179.99)

Gigabyte GA-X48-DS5 Intel X48 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £99.99
(£86.95) £99.99
(£86.95)

Corsair HX 520W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-520HXUK) £82.98
(£72.16) £82.98
(£72.16)

Asus ATI Radeon HD 4670 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail £60.94
(£52.99) £60.94
(£52.99)

Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (WD6401AALS) £55.99
(£48.69) £55.99
(£48.69)

Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black (No PSU) £49.99
(£43.47) £49.99
(£43.47)

Noctua NH-U12P CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/LGA775) £48.29
(£41.99) £48.29
(£41.99)

OCZ Gold Edition 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 Dual Channel (OCZ2G10664GK) £34.99
(£30.43) £69.98
(£60.86)

Samsung SH-S223F/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
(£15.64) £17.99
(£15.64) Sub Total : £602.74 Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : FREE VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £92.47 Total : £695.96