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Wightpants

Wightpants

Wightpants

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Hi all,

I'm trying to put a system together for my sister to use for graphic design work. She uses Adobe Photoshop CS6 and Illustrator CS6 and also CorelDraw x8 and Corel Painter2017.

She's already ordered a BenQ PD3200Q 32 inch 1440p monitor for £400. I want to put the rest together without going much over £1000. She doesn't need a HDD. This is what I've came up with so far:

Case - £55 - Carbide Series 100R Silent Edition Mid-Tower PC Case - Black
CPU - £309 - Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz (Kaby Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail
Mobo - £165 - Prime Z270-A Intel Z270 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard
RAM - £170 - Corsair Vengeance LPX - DIMM 288-pin
SSD - £117 - 250GB Samsung 960 EVO M.2
PSU - £95 - EVGA SuperNova 650W
GPU - £96 - Asus R7 360 OC 2GB GDDR5 DVI-I DVI-D HDMI DisplayPort PCI-E Graphics Card
OS - £10 - Windows 10 Home

Total - £1017

I've done gaming setups before, but not graphic design. Does this look reasonable? Also, if I'm not overclocking, will the stock cooler and built-in case fans do the job?

Thanks in advance for any help,
Wightpants.
 
to be honest if its for non gaming, you can drop the K chip as well as the Z motherboard

Coffeelake i3 is now 4 cores and 4 threads, older i7s where 4 cores /8 threads along with the i3's being 2/4

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/inte...ocket-lga1151-processor-retail-cp-63q-in.html
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asro...cket-1151-ddr4-atx-motherboard-mb-15p-ak.html

£220 vs £470 and will give the same results when its pure photoshop

also depending what rendering she'd be doing, CPU or GPU based, im sure Coffeelake internal GPU is faster then i7 if its CPU based and would save you having to spend on a GPU
 
I'd imagine more threads would be better, perhaps Ryzen? Not sure on which SKU, but I'd be tempted to go team red on value for money.
 
Thanks for the input guys.

I've spoken to sis - she will likely be working with more than one app at a time, plus various browser tabs open including youtube tutorials and the like. I like the idea of using the Coffelake internal GPU for now. I don't think the apps she has use much GPU. But I think it would be best to go above i3 for CPU.

orbitalwalsh said:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asro...cket-1151-ddr4-atx-motherboard-mb-15p-ak.html
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That's very reasonably priced. Is it good performance wise? Whilst I want to keep costs within budget, Id rather make sure it's going to perform well going forward. I've never been much cop at working out which mobos are good!

FL630 said:
I'd imagine more threads would be better, perhaps Ryzen? Not sure on which SKU, but I'd be tempted to go team red on value for money.
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I'm not yet convinced by AMD, but I'll kep it in mind.

Thanks again guys,
Wightpants.
 
Wightpants said:
Thanks for the input guys.

I've spoken to sis - she will likely be working with more than one app at a time, plus various browser tabs open including youtube tutorials and the like. I like the idea of using the Coffelake internal GPU for now. I don't think the apps she has use much GPU. But I think it would be best to go above i3 for CPU.



That's very reasonably priced. Is it good performance wise? Whilst I want to keep costs within budget, Id rather make sure it's going to perform well going forward. I've never been much cop at working out which mobos are good!


I'm not yet convinced by AMD, but I'll kep it in mind.

Thanks again guys,
Wightpants.
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Pains me to say, It is a good board, Have Gigabyte im yet to test to see if it matches with reviewers saying ram cant be pushed , so until I see myself with gigabyte and strix, that ASRock board is performing well . RMA and rep support, couldn't comment on the first bit but if buying OCUK they are excellent to deal with and some support on here unlike Asus and MSI, Gigabyte has them crawling out the wood work .

Intel i5 8400 OEM chip is a shoe horn between the two, 6 core and was a god price- should drop down in next 3 weeks though
 
I think you could build a great PC for that task for much less than £1k, spend the money saved on a later version of the Adobe apps, or an Adobe cloud subscription, or an awesome screen, something like that probably has more value to a graphic designer

My basket at Overclockers UK:

Total: £644.53
(includes shipping: £12.60)



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Is this going to be multiscreen setup? Good monitors can make the world of difference in graphic design as well...

With the disks I would use the SSD for OS/App drive, then a RAID mirror with a pair of standard hdd drives - if they're going to use the system for work, then its great to have reliable storage for all of those hours of work!

Edit: removed extra PSU - another £50 whoops! :/
 
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