Help with new build - £500 budget

[Adaml123]

Hey guys,

New to this hope you can help

Looking for a build for maximum £500 - this is for graphic design i.e. photoshop/illustrator etc rather than gaming specifically. Just the tower and internal components needed, no peripherals or montor

Thanks in advance!

 

[Seearbe]

Close to no gaming ability on this but for graphic design it would be good. Could upgrade GPU later if you did want to game at all.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Six Core 4.2GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £178.99
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (CMK16GX4M2B32= £69.95
• 1 x MSI B450-A PRO MAX (Socket AM4) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £88.99
• 1 x Asus GeForce GT 710 SILENT 2048MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £37.99
• 1 x Seasonic S12II 520W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply= £58.99
• 1 x TeamGroup 480GB L5 Lite SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 3D NAND Solid State Drive= £39.95
• 1 x Kolink Pitch Midi Tower Case - Black= £24.95

Total: £513.01 (includes shipping: £13.20)​

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[Adaml123]

Perfect that looks great mate- appreciate it!

 

[Seearbe]

Hold fire before pressing the buy button. Second opinions are worth waiting for as I've been known to make a glaring mistake in the past!

 

[snips86x]

Can't fault it but a shame there's no gold PSU option for that price range.
Unless there are b-grade options.

 

[Adaml123]

Yeah I won't rush in to things just yet, appreciate the input nonetheless

 

[Gray2233]

That Seasonic unit is an ancient design, I wouldn't recommend it in any modern build. The Superflower Leadex III is on special at the moment for a fantastic price and is a vastly superior PSU:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Super Flower Leadex III 550W 80 PLUS Gold Modular Power Supply - Black= £59.99

Total: £59.99 (includes shipping: £0.00)


If you plan on doing any gaming at all that Nvidia 710 is going to struggle, but it should be fine for most non-gaming use. I have been told that Illustrator makes use of GPU acceleration so you might want to look into that more as the 710 might not hold up in that respect, it isn't an area I'm overly knowledgeable in.​

 

[Adaml123]

Thanks for the PSU advice that looks great. I was under the impression that you didn't need a dedicated GPU for graphic design but I'm not an expert on the subject- I'm putting this together for a friend so it sounds like I might need to a bit more research. Appreciate the help!

 

[Danny75]

I was under the impression that you didn't need a dedicated GPU for graphic design but I'm not an expert on the subject

It's a minefield, what with old advice now sometimes not being accurate as software developers upgrade their stuff to make use of GPUs more, and so on.

 

[Seearbe]

Good spot on the psu. I hadn't seen it at that price so definitely change up to that.

With design stuff, the gpu might help but it's not the thing driving performance. At the budget you have, getting to a good cpu and ram level is far more important. Plus you've allowed an upgrade path without any real wasted cost.