Help building a PC.

Mutleyracers

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
 
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.
 
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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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.
 
For office use, I suggest the Intel NUC boxes. They'll save you a lot of space. They'll be fine for light Photoshop use.
 
Mutleyracers said:
Could I do better than this laptop 8GB 1TB I7-7500 PROCESSOR IDEAPAD 320 at a price of £650. That is pretty much our budget.

Thanks again
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No,
i7-7500U is a dual-core processor with quad threads, Ryzen 5 1600 is a hexa-core processor with 12 threads,
8GB of unknown memory versus 16 GB DDR4 super premium memory,
1TB of unknown, probably slow HDD vs 500GB of fast SSD.

It's up to you, but if you don't wanna be screwed big time, run away from laptops and Intel ;)
 
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!
 
I doubt so, because with a DIY PC, you need to factor in the cost of the operating system, monitor and peripherals. Those alone would cost approx £200. That leaves £450 for your actual PC components. If your budget were larger, then I would be inclined to agree, but not at £650 all inclusive.
Also, how likely are you to want to spend hours diagnosing a PC that goes wrong? Or a build that does not boot at first try? I know it's not often that this happens when building a computer, but it happens enough to warrant a thought about it.
Happy to be proved wrong though.
 
Seems a lot of work is going on, HDD in Raid 1 . This means one hard drive goes, system is still on the other drive. Basically mirrored .
That or back up your files onto an external driver regularly.
Photoshop is good for 4 cores/ 4 threads and speed is key .
You watching Netflix at 4k ?
 
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
 
@Mutleyracers best i can do, of course you can cut some corners and get cheaper items, but i think this is as bargain basement as i would go without compromising too much. £760 all in. you could save yourself a fair bit if you can obtain windows some other way.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £758.58 (includes shipping: £14.70)​
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