New Office PC

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Hi,

Can someone please spec me up a suitable office computer?

Budget, under £1000

The PC will be used for Office and Web surfing. The dual screens are due to the amount of document editing adding pictures etc.. Photoshop is used to touch up and make minor changes to pictures.

Requirements are as follows:

Dual Monitors 22" or better
Windows 8.1
CPU preferably Intel as not really an AMD fan (that's just personal choice)
Motherboard
RAM
PSU
Case
GPU, needs to support two monitors
1TB data storage minimum but 2GB would be better (separate drive)
SSD for system disk 120GB?

Don't really want to overclock just keep it standard, quite if poss but other office noise probably negates this worry.

Will need everything, basically

Cheers

Steve
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £149.99
2 x Packard Bell Viseo 243D 24" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £115.99 (£231.98)
1 x EVGA GeForce GT 640 Single Slot 4096MB PCI-Express Graphics Card (04G-P4-2647-KR) £89.99
1 x Intel Core i3-4130 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £89.99
1 x MSI Z87-G43 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £86.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £69.95
1 x Toshiba 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA200) HDD £62.99
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 550W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £49.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £47.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED34GM1600HC11DC01) £32.99
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £17.99
Total : £954.95 (includes shipping : £20.10).

 
Spec:

YOUR BASKET
2 x BenQ GW2460HM 24" Widescreen LED Professional Slim Bezel Monitor - Black £169.99 (£339.98)
1 x Intel Core i5-4430 3.00GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £139.99
1 x MSI Z87-G43 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard - FREE Alpenfohn Civetta Cooler!! £86.99
1 x Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £71.99
1 x GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD38GB1600C11DC) £59.99
1 x MSI Radeon R7 240 "Low Profile" 2048MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £59.99
1 x Arctic Dual Monitor Stand Z2 with USB-Hub - Black £59.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £53.99
2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £47.99 (£95.98)
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £47.99
Total : £1,033.07 (includes shipping : £13.50).



2 x 24" IPS monitors
Intel CPU
Motherboard with CPU cooler
120GB+ SSD
2TB of (mirror) storage
 
Thanks for the quick response.

Doomedspeed you must have read my mind the Dual monitor stand is a great addition as I was wondering if I could achieve this.
The mirrored storage is prob not needed as boss has PC backed up to USB external drive weekly and takes off site. He totally mistrusts web storage/backup solutions in favour of running his trusty USB all over the place (and yes he has multiple ones just in case lol)

Couple of other questions i3/i5 are these OK for Photoshop, looking on forum looks like they are as Photoshop seems to be RAM and HDD speed needy. I take it either of the two recommended GPU's will be OK?

Sorry for so many questions but need to get this right as current PC being about 6 or 7 years old just crawls if you try and open several offices apps and then Photoshop. How ever it is a dual core e7300 but only has 2GB of ram with everything running off the primary HDD which is a 640GB drive to which I dont know the speed, could be 5400 or 7200

Cheers
 
A bit of a rework then:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4430 3.00GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £139.99
2 x Dell Studio S2240L 22" IPS Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £139.99 (£279.98)
1 x MSI Z87-G43 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard - FREE Alpenfohn Civetta Cooler!! £86.99
1 x Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £71.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £69.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £65.99
1 x MSI Radeon R7 240 "Low Profile" 2048MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £59.99
1 x Arctic Dual Monitor Stand Z2 with USB-Hub - Black £59.99
1 x GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD38GB1600C11DC) £59.99
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 550W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £49.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £47.99
Total : £1,009.33 (includes shipping : £13.75).



The i3 would work but the i5 is a nice touch, photoshop has jut started (with CS6 i think) to ultilise multiple cores in its processing. So the i3 would be fine for now the i5 adds a bit of contingency to the rig.

Well if you can get an i5 and 16GB of RAM (and) an SSD,.. Win win win..

The GPU's are both good. The Nvivida one will be specced for CUDA support but outside of 3D work (CAD) that doesn't really benifit, the processing cores on the GPU help with photowork such as this. The GT 640 has 384 and the R7 240 has 320.. For the money, id go for the 240. :)
 
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Hi,

Thanks for the update. I have now spent some time slightly changing things and just want the once over.

I have gone for two 1GB HDD to run in RAID 1 (mirroring) to get some protection for the data stored on PC. Added a new USB 3 external drive to speed up backup for off site storage.

I change the CPU from the i5 4430 to the 4440 as this give slightly more standard speed for not much money. Also added a Optical drive.

The PSU also got swapped out for corsair due to it being modular but that means its now 500w and not 550w is this a good idea or bad idea?

Most of the other stuff remains the same with additions of cables etc that I need.

My only last thought is now this has pushed this up by £200 and on reflection two 24" monitors might be hard to align on my corner desk with the Arctic Z2 stand due to the mount being some way back compared to the monitors.
Would the BenQ GW2265HM be an OK replacement or should I go for another 22" monitor or do you think a corner desk and the stand plus 24" monitors will be OK?

YOUR BASKET
2 x BenQ GW2460HM 24" Widescreen LED Professional Slim Bezel Monitor - Black £169.99 (£339.98)
1 x Intel Core i5-4440 3.10GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £131.99
1 x MSI Z87-G43 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard - FREE Alpenfohn Civetta Cooler!! £86.99
1 x Toshiba SSD HDTS212EZSTA 9.5mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive - Retail £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £69.95
1 x GeIL Black Dragon 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD38GB1600C11DC) £65.99
1 x Samsung M3 1TB USB3.0 Slimline Portable Hard Drive - Piano Black £62.99
1 x Arctic Dual Monitor Stand Z2 with USB-Hub - Black £59.99
1 x MSI Radeon R7 240 "Low Profile" 2048MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £59.99
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 500w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020059-UK) £55.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £47.99
2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £43.99 (£87.98)
1 x LG GH24NSB0 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £19.99
1 x Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £8.99
1 x OcUK Value 3m DVI to HDMI Gold Plated Cable (CDLDV-303) £6.79
1 x OcUK Value 2m Male - Male Gold Plated Swivel Head HDMI Cable (CDLHD-902) £4.79
1 x OcUK Value Standard Stereo Splitter Adaptor - 3T2R £1.19
Total : £1,207.76 (includes shipping : £13.50).

 
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