New system - non gaming

[neocon]

What's a good spec for a non gaming PC capable of 4K?

Budget is £5-600.

Price must include 4k monitor, CPU, MB, Ram, case, PSU, SSD.

I have a dvd drive, an additional SSD and win10 already.

Machine will be used for some light Photoshop and image editing.

Thank you please

 

[Danny75]

Will you actually need to use the DVD drive?

Which SSD have you already got?

For time being came up with this:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Philips 276E8VJSB 27" 3840x2160 4K IPS 60Hz Widescreen LED Backlit Gaming Monitor= £225.95
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 3400G Quad Core 4.2GHz (Socket AM4) APU with RX Vega 11 Graphics - Retail= £128.99
• 1 x Patriot Viper Steel 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C17 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVS416G360C7K)= £74.99
• 1 x MSI B450M Mortar MAX (Socket AM4) DDR4 mATX Motherboard= £84.95
• 1 x Corsair TX550M 550W 80 Plus Gold Semi Modular Power Supply (CP-9020133-UK)= £64.99
• 1 x Kolink Citadel Micro-ATX Case - Black= £39.95

Total: £633.02 (includes shipping: £13.20)​

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The case has no 5.25" bay and there is no SSD as budget's been exceeded.

That Philips monitor is supposed to come with a Display Port cable according to Philips USA. OcUK says HDMI cable only. Accessories sometimes vary from country to country so would ask OcUK about that. You definitely want to use Display Port with this particular setup because the HDMI on the Mortar motherboard doesn't do 60Hz @ 4K only 30Hz.

You'll get a bit better for your money if some parts are second-hand. Although this setup would allow decent upgrades to 8 core or 12 core CPU + discrete GPU.

 

[neocon]

Will you actually need to use the DVD drive?

Which SSD have you already got?

For time being came up with this:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Philips 276E8VJSB 27" 3840x2160 4K IPS 60Hz Widescreen LED Backlit Gaming Monitor= £225.95
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 3400G Quad Core 4.2GHz (Socket AM4) APU with RX Vega 11 Graphics - Retail= £128.99
• 1 x Patriot Viper Steel 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-28800C17 3600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVS416G360C7K)= £74.99
• 1 x MSI B450M Mortar MAX (Socket AM4) DDR4 mATX Motherboard= £84.95
• 1 x Corsair TX550M 550W 80 Plus Gold Semi Modular Power Supply (CP-9020133-UK)= £64.99
• 1 x Kolink Citadel Micro-ATX Case - Black= £39.95

Total: £633.02 (includes shipping: £13.20)
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The case has no 5.25" bay and there is no SSD as budget's been exceeded.

That Philips monitor is supposed to come with a Display Port cable according to Philips USA. OcUK says HDMI cable only. Accessories sometimes vary from country to country so would ask OcUK about that. You definitely want to use Display Port with this particular setup because the HDMI on the Mortar motherboard doesn't do 60Hz @ 4K only 30Hz.

You'll get a bit better for your money if some parts are second-hand. Although this setup would allow decent upgrades to 8 core or 12 core CPU + discrete GPU.

Thanks for this.

We have a 120GB SSD. It does need a dvd drive, but I can just choose a different case.

CPU, MB, RAM combination looks good too.