Designer pc

antrock101

antrock101

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Hello,

I have a friend who is looking for an alternative for a mac for design work (more bang for buck)
it's been 6 years since I last built a pc can someone help spec this for me.

She uses:

Photoshop
Illustrator
Premier pro

I'm ideally looking at 3 build prices: £700, £850,£1000 gbp to include a screen that renders true colours.

Presuming 16-32 gb of ram will suffice, I have no idea on AMD vs Intel nowadays tho? with the lower spec £700 - £850 i will be buying a nas for storage so just a ssd working drive and harddrive space for editting, nothing needed for permanent storage.

£1000 build will need storage

Thanks
 
I'd suggest going up to 32gb for design work. Images to work with now can be crazy sizes 17963 x 4200 or 75 megapixel image was one I saw recently, 17951 x 5585 or 100 megapixels another.... the trajectory is only up. If you're multitasking between applications, and files, then not having to worry about the RAM. And then video work.... or both together... probably 16mb would do if budgets are tight, but for that extra future proof as a media work station, why not be prepared... ?
 
My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £1,125.68
(includes shipping: £15.90)



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Over budget, missing (ideally) a fast M.2 scratch/cache disk, 32GB RAM, and an extra (or larger) HDD for more storage or safety backup. But these can be added over time, as upgrades.

22/24" IPS 1920x1080 monitor could also bring price down by £100. A better monitor could then also be a future upgrade.
 
Danny75 said:
Over budget, missing (ideally) a fast M.2 scratch/cache disk, 32GB RAM, and an extra (or larger) HDD for more storage or safety backup. But these can be added over time, as upgrades.

22/24" IPS 1920x1080 monitor could also bring price down by £100. A better monitor could then also be a future upgrade.
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I'm also a designer, and I think this spec is great. I'm almost ready to pull the trigger, but I'd definitely like to add a scratch disk. Which M.2 would you recommend with this build?
 
Mike DDD said:
I'm also a designer, and I think this spec is great. I'm almost ready to pull the trigger, but I'd definitely like to add a scratch disk. Which M.2 would you recommend with this build?
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Bear in mind prices have changed, there may be some better options for same price now.

In order:

Samsung 960 Pro Polaris 512GB (very expensive though, and no 256GB model available)
Samsung SM961 Polaris 256/512GB (don't get the 128GB model)
Samsung 960 Evo Polaris 250/500GB

The SM961 is like an OEM version (with less warranty or support) of the 960 Pro and nearly as fast. The 960 Evo has TLC NAND instead of MLC and is slower at some things as well as having less endurance (still a lot though).
 
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