First build, 600 budget for everything, Help!

Stevespar

Stevespar

Stevespar

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Hello guys! Been lurking for a while, slowly learning!

Now pay day has arrived, I'm looking to build my first pc for basic family use, i.e. Internet, ms office, and my photography hobby, so will need to run Lightroom 4 and photoshop cs6, I have £600 to buy the whole system inc. monitor, mouse, keyboard.

Obviously not expecting great specifications, but a IPS monitor 23" minimum is my only request as it doesn't matter how slow the system is if the images aren't true!

Thanks guys!
 
Would this budget also include a operating system as well?

Without OS - Includes SSD for OS & Programs & HDD for Images/pictures.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Iiyama Prolite X2377HDS 23" Premium IPS Panel Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £139.99
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor **FREE SIMCITY PC GAME** (AD580KWOHJBOX) £99.95
1 x Gigabyte F2A85X-D3H AMD A85X Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £64.99
1 x Toshiba SSD HG5D Series 7mm 60GB Solid State Hard Drive - (THNSNH060GCST) £61.99
1 x BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Case - Black £49.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2133HC11DC01) £49.99
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM £45
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020058-UK) £39.98
1 x Microsoft Wireless Desktop 2000 (M7J-00020) £35.99
Total : £609.30 (includes shipping : £17.85).

 
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Sorry about that, I will need OS, would that create the same spec as above minus SSD?

Shame.. SSD would have been loverly! Haha, but I suppose I could always add that later!
 
You get Windows 8 for 3 months for free - which can give you a little time to budget in a OS at a later date? Or if it's needed now, I can amend and see what I can do.

Monitor wise, I'm not sure on what's good etc. So I just specced a 23" IPS as you asked for a reasonable price. If their's better/worse than correct me on that.

Everything included - Knocked the HDD down to 500GB however still has a 64GB SSD, changed the processor to less clocked CPU & downgraded the keyboard and mouse, which shouldn't be an issue.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Iiyama Prolite X2377HDS 23" Premium IPS Panel Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £139.99
1 x AMD A8-5600K Black Edition 3.60GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor **FREE SIMCITY PC GAME** (AD560KWOHJBOX) £83.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00403) £79.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A85X-D3H AMD A85X Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £64.99
1 x Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5 SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CT064M4SSD2) £59.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2133HC11DC01) £49.99
1 x **B Grade** Toshiba (7K1000.D) 500GB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA050) HDD £40
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020058-UK) £39.98
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Midi Tower Case - Black £28.99
1 x Gigabyte KM6150 Keyboard and Mouse Set £9.98
Total : £619.32 (includes shipping : £17.85).

 
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If windows is available free for 3 months then I think ill purchase identical to what you've mentioned, the monitor is great thank you, but out of curiosity, what would be the specification if OS was included?

And as I am going to be building this myself, are there any consumables I will require? Or tooling? Might sounds daft just covering all bases, the wife would be rather upset if I had £600 in unusable PC components haha!

Thanks again, you've been super helpful!
 
Everything will be good to go, the heatsink with the CPU will have thermal paste already applied. Everything else will have all the screws you need/mounts etc. All cables will be included etc.

My second post has everything included with an OS in there as well. if you haven't noticed it?
 
If this machine is not seeing a game in its life then I would have picked the Intel i5 .... oh wait I have :D This will help in the processing of your Adobe products

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £169.99
1 x Iiyama Prolite X2377HDS 23" Premium IPS Panel Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £139.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-HD3 Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) HDD £53.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020058-UK) £39.98
1 x NZXT Source 210 Elite Midi Tower Case - White £39.95
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVI38G186C9K) £39.95
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £19.99
1 x Gigabyte KM6150 Keyboard and Mouse Set £9.98
Total : £615.24 (includes shipping : £17.85).



http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/701?vs=675
The i5 is about twice as quick when doing retouch's photoshop.
 
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No ssd, but the potential to upgrade to an i5 Cpu at a later date.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Iiyama Prolite X2377HDS 23" Premium IPS Panel Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £139.99
1 x Intel Core i3-3225 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (55W) - Retail **High Performance IGP** £109.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-HD3 Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00403) £79.99
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (S (HD-255-SE) £62.4
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020058-UK) £39.98
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVI38G186C9K) £39.95
1 x Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £32.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £19.99
1 x Gigabyte KM6150 Keyboard and Mouse Set £9.98
Total : £636.68 (includes shipping : £17.85).

 
Aww your spoiling me now! Haha! No the pc will never see a game, never really been my cup of tea so to speak! And I'm using a old laptop at the moment running vista, it's roughly 4-5 years old,

I had noticed your post, but I hadn't refreshed the page to see it, while I was writing my reply to your first comment.
 
Just have another thought .... how about an i3 with an SSD.....

YOUR BASKET
1 x Iiyama Prolite X2377HDS 23" Premium IPS Panel Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £139.99
1 x Intel Core i3-3220 3.30GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £92.99
1 x Plextor M5S 128GB Solid State Drive - (PX-128M5S) £89.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) HDD £53.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020058-UK) £39.98
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVI38G186C9K) £39.95
1 x NZXT Source 210 Elite Midi Tower Case - White £39.95
1 x Foxconn H67M Intel H67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £38.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £19.99
1 x Gigabyte KM6150 Keyboard and Mouse Set £9.98
Total : £587.22 (includes shipping : £17.85).

 
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