Can you help me out with spec'ing out this thing?
Primary use is office, internet but generally multitasking - 10-20 tabs in a browser, Word, Excel, Photoshop, plenty of folders etc opened.
Additionally, this machine would see some light CAD use.
I thought about:
i3 2100 (or 2120)
8GB RAM (whatever on the promo 1600MHz, generally with lifetime warranty etc)
~120GB SSD (M4 or anything with Marvell chip preferable)
~500W PSU
Bitfenix Merc Beta case (looks neat and solid)
DVD+RW
H61 mobo (which one?)
I hope the gfx in i3 will be able to cope with this light CAD usage but if an upgrade is needed I'd rather go with something non-CAD (current ancient rig with X300 chip was able to just cope with the demand so this is not a priority).
Budget is ~£450 (without Windows).
Primary use is office, internet but generally multitasking - 10-20 tabs in a browser, Word, Excel, Photoshop, plenty of folders etc opened.
Additionally, this machine would see some light CAD use.
I thought about:
i3 2100 (or 2120)
8GB RAM (whatever on the promo 1600MHz, generally with lifetime warranty etc)
~120GB SSD (M4 or anything with Marvell chip preferable)
~500W PSU
Bitfenix Merc Beta case (looks neat and solid)
DVD+RW
H61 mobo (which one?)
I hope the gfx in i3 will be able to cope with this light CAD usage but if an upgrade is needed I'd rather go with something non-CAD (current ancient rig with X300 chip was able to just cope with the demand so this is not a priority).
Budget is ~£450 (without Windows).
