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RoastChicken

RoastChicken

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Basically my sisters Boy friend has asked me to build him one. Now I'm fine with actually building and setting a PC up its just what components to go for is the issue.

Were Aiming at a £500 budget but the PC needs to be fairly powerful. Will be Running CS4 would be hugely heavy use but Illustrator will be used quite a bit.

So I'm looking at:

E8400
8 Gb Ram
HD 4870 1024MB GDDR5
500Gb HDD
Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3P Intel P45
PSU?


It will be running Vista Ultimate 64bit And internet security is both already purchased. DVD drive again don't worry about.

I mean if theres any particular makes that are reliable for particular components i personally would prefer to go with a Gigabyte board prefer them really, and Go with an Intel processor also.

The graphics side i really don't know how much power etc is needed to run CS4 so if that is too powerful or could be toned down a bit thats fine but if we can get it in that £500 it would be marvellous.

Thanks for the help. :D

(Not sure if this is the right forum)
 
Firstly theres going to be currently very little gaming done on the machine its not being built for that really. And if there was to be gaming were not looking to max out settings to things like steam games maybe Team fortress things on the range of that.

From what he's told me its photo editing if by 3d you mean rendering objects in 3d i don't beleivev thats what he's doing but i would have to check.

On the RAM side the main reason i went for 8gb was i assumed when photo editing it can be a major memory hog so went for 8 probably could go for 6 instead if 4 wasn't enough.

On the upgradeing side i eman once this is built there wont be any upgrades happening really. the only thing that might change would be an extra HDD for space and possibly if we went for 4gb/6gb ram upgrade that but really there wouldn't be much upgrading for 4-5 years.

We have Windows already went for 64bit to maximise the memory for at least 4gb and give the option of being able to upgrade it at a later date.

On the graphgics side i don't know how powerful it needs to be to be perfectly honest, don't know much in the photo editing side. Do the Phenoms hold up against the Intel Dual cores?

Thanks for the help
 
I assume this:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-168-GI

Is DDR 2 Backwards Compatible tey don't mention it but i would guess all boards are surely?
Or am i going to have to go with DDR3 memory?
I much prefer the Gigabyte boards personally hence going for 1

Just finalising my spec now took your advice and will be going with 4gb RAM for now.
And also going with XFX ATI Radeon HD 4830 512MB GDDR3.
 
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