Help building a PC.

Mutleyracers

Mutleyracers

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Hi

I am looking for advice on building a PC for my office. None of it will be for gaming as most people spec. It will be for invoicing, photo shop, sketch book and streaming movies and net service tv. Could anyone recommend me some components.

Oh, I have never built a PC before. Do the parts come with instructions and would a novice be able to build one.

Thanks for the advice in advance.

Regards Lee
 
mistersprinkles said:
It isn't difficult to build a PC. Having said that I have seen some intellectually challenged people on forums over the years kill their PC's during the build process by using an entire tube of thermal paste, and other stupid things, so there is risk involved.

Watch some build videos. The newegg build videos with Carey Holzman (who I think is a moron but that's besides the point) are excellent quality.

Parts wise, I guess it depends on what kind of stuff you're doing with photoshop. A good starting poing would be a high end 8th gen i3 or low end Ryzen 5, 16GB of RAM, a large SSD, a large hard drive, decent power supply.

We need to know what you do in photoshop, file sizes, filters used, etc, to recommend specific parts.
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Hi. Thanks for getting back to me so quickly and with the advice. Photo shop will be used just for editing pictures taken from phones and tablets and also editing videos from the phone.

I hope that helps
 
4K8KW10 said:
Hi,

So, a 6-core/12-thread processor for multi-threading, 16GB premium RAM, fast 500 GB solid state drive and quiet case and power supply unit:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £751.61 (includes shipping: £11.70)
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Wow thanks for the list of items. I shall have a read up on these as I actually don't have a clue what the parts actually do. I just have this bug to build a PC.
 
Ok so the PC seems much more powerful and will past longer etc.
We are considering returning the new laptop if we can build a pc for the same price with better specs, which from the comments above sounds like a possibility??
My wife wants to do a big video project making our home videos onto dvds with menus and editing etc. We also have a LOT of photos (maybe about 30,000 or more) that she would like saved onto it rather than on external hard drives. What type of memory and processing speed should I be looking at?
Thank You!! Appreciate all the advice already!
 
Hi. Thanks for the advice. We have a monitor but it's not 4k. Don't have Netflix. We have prime. The monitor would only be used for streaming when my wife kicks me out of the lounge. Once a week maybe
 
Wow thank you. It looks like a good set up. I already have a Samsung full HD monitor which I bought yesterday. Not sure how I would obtain Microsoft another way to be honest with you.

I like that you added speakers as well.
 
Now I am getting butterflies!!

Are these black Friday deals these prices

And, are they actually that difficult to put together? Does each component come with wiring harnesses? And does it require any soldering?
 
Oh I see. Only 40 pounds difference between building and buying one. I thought I would save more than that to be honest.

I shall look it up. Thank you

I would still like a build though
 
Ok cool. Thank you so much for your help. I will chat to my wife about it. Very good to know I can add the 250 ssd to it as well.

I totally understand where you are coming from with the returns. I still get excited at the thought of building though
 
Quartz said:
Here's an Intel NUC build:

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £704.85 (includes shipping: £15.90)
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Note that OCUK don't have a great range of NUCs so you may have to get them to quote for a different chassis.
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So you believe Intel are good. Others I believe said not so.

I have a screen!
 
Now that is a strange time to start selling them.

I see they have different configurations. I wonder if all of them will be reduced. I think if the one with ryzan 5 and dual memory goes for 699 I would grab it
 
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