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A family member has asked me to build him a PC, primarily for Photo Editing/Processing (Lightroom). However he does also do some light gaming.

Budget is around £400-£500. He's specifically said he wants 16GB RAM. I'm assuming Adobe Lightroom is quite Memory intensive...

Come up with this so far, can anybody recommend anything different/better?

YOUR BASKET
1 x Kingston HyperX Beast 16GB (4x4GB) PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Quad Channel Kit (KHX24C11T3K4/16X) £139.99
1 x AMD Kaveri 7700K 10 Compute Core APU w/ Radeon R7 Graphics (4 CPU + 6 GPU Compute Cores) - Retail £119.99
1 x Gigabyte G1.Sniper A88X AMD A88X Chipset (Socket FM2+) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £81.95
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 600w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020060-UK) £59.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £59.99
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower Black/Black £29.99
Total : £501.49 (includes shipping : £8.00).



Gone with APU as seems to suit what he's asked for. No need for any crazy graphics etc.. Case is.. meh! its a case, it will spend most of the time under his desk anyway!
 
 
 
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i3 and the 750 is probably the best balance imo, i3 performs better than the cpu in the 7700k most of the time and the 750 gives you much more gpu power as well which lightroom could probably use. The 6450 gfx card in the fx build isn't even really capable of "light gaming"

edit from what i just read, lightroom still doesnt really make use of gpu acceleration, if that's the case, the fx build will likely be faster with lightroom but gaming capability will be virtually none bar basic indie games!

2nd edit my build, with an i5 and the 750, the i5 will give great performance with lightroom and the 750 will play a lot of games decently., and a 450 watt psu can handle it as its low powered.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4460 3.20GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £134.99
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP8G3D1609DS1S00CEU) £104.99
1 x Gainward GeForce GTX 750 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £79.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £59.99
1 x Asus H81M-PLUS Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £40.99
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 450W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £39.95
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower Black/Black £29.99
Total : £500.48 (includes shipping : £8.00).



also if you swap the i5 for an i7 4790 (non k) and remove the gfx card you will improve lightroom performance further at the sacrifice of gaming performance, and still be in budget...

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4790 3.60GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £227.99
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP8G3D1609DS1S00CEU) £104.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £59.99
1 x Asus H81M-PLUS Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £40.99
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 450W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £39.95
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower Black/Black £29.99
Total : £513.49 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
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allthough gains from an ssd are pretty marginal in lightroom, ssd storage is very beneficial at least for general use, but since the budget doesnt really allow for it without sacrificing more important cpu power maybe swap out the standard hdd for a hybrid like this, just sacrificing some storage capacity.

YOUR BASKET
1 x seagate sshd 7200rpm 3.5" 1tb sata 6gb/s 64mb cache - oem (st1000dx001) sshd hybrid drive £59.99
total : £68.69 (includes shipping : £7.25).



and if you go slightly over budget you can put the application and windows on a boot drive and keep the hybrid drive for photos/games

your basket
1 x crucial mx100 128gb sata 2.5” 7mm ssd + 9.5mm adapter (ct128mx100ssd1) £56.99
total : £65.69 (includes shipping : £7.25).



here you can see, they say you dont really need a gfx card for lightroom and there is an article about ssd gains:

http://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/optimize-performance-lightroom.html

so yeah £50 over budget build with faster storage and gaming capable

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4460 3.20GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £134.99
1 x Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (BLS2CP8G3D1609DS1S00CEU) £104.99
1 x Gainward GeForce GTX 750 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £79.99
1 x Seagate SSHD 7200RPM 3.5" 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DX001) SSHD Hybrid Drive £59.99
1 x Crucial MX100 128GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT128MX100SSD1) £56.99
1 x Asus H81M-PLUS Intel H81 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £40.99
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 450W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £39.95
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower Black/Black £29.99
Total : £557.47 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
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