Photoshop build under £500

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Hi
I am looking to build low end work machine mainly for photoshop and web development.
So I have those parts from my old PC that I can scavenge:
Western Digital WD20EARS 2TB Hard Drive SATAII 64MB Cache - OEM Caviar Green
Coolermaster Elite 330 Case With Coolermaster eXtreme Power 500W PSU
BENQ GL2760H

I need everything else ideally if I can get it under £300 total but my budget is £500. What would you guys recommend?

EDIT: I can stretch it to about £700 if you guys think it is necessary. I will build it myself. I have mouse keyboard and speakers. My preference is AMD but I didn't follow for a while so if Intel is significantly better I might get that. I would like SSD for windows. I am using Photoshop CS6 and Illustrator CC 2015. Thanks again for help it's been about 6 years since I builded anything but I should be still good.
 
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Its a shame the APUs for desktop arent coming out next year as you could have ditched the stand along Graphics card .
The Ryzen 1600 will offer you 6 cores and 12 Threads for your Photoshop work , along with 16GB - its the cheapest there is and just happens to be 3200hz speed which is better for the performance of the AMD chip
saw you've got a hard drive. Listed a small 128GB SSD which is the cheapest price for that volume and just happens to be the latest and fastest form of storage- add your OS and programs to it and save all work to your hard-drive
 
lejo said:
Looks good thank you!
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hopefully others will also comment to get a good ball park figure - i5 8400 looks to be good on paper compared to the last and previous i5 intel generations - would be 6 cores , 6 threads - no overclocking if your into or not into it - but i cant see it matching the older generation chip or Ryzen 1600 price wise to be honest

not sure if any of your photoshop plug ins use any GPU power but this would have been a great chip for you

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/5859...potted-new-apu-rocks-vega-gpu-tech/index.html

but not out till next year same 6 cores 12 threads but inbuilt better GPU
 
Hello, photoshop is for the most part not heavily multi-threaded, most tasks will max out at 2-4 threads. So I think you're likely to see better performance with a high clocked i5 or i7. That being said it would be marginal, pretty much any current gen CPU would be past the point of diminishing returns so you'd notice very little extra performance from a faster cpu.

You could probably get away with the above spec with something like a ryzen 3 1300x or overclocked 1200 to save yourself some money.
 
Correct: Photoshop primarily only uses a handful of CPU cores, so using anything above a quad core CPU is typically actually worse for performance even though those CPUs are much more expensive.
 
^^^ why is good to have more views :)

my wife and i run photoshop with multiple other programs when on the get go - my reason for more cores. If its just photoshop, as others have stated can save cash either by dropping to a Ryzen 1400 / 1200 or i5 .

coffee lake , if they can nail the price right on Non K version might be a good number for you
 
the 1030 would be better than the 730 to an extent and its newer.

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upping the tier with a 1050 for more grunt

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something with a radeon gpu

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but more importantly a better supply would be advisable also for longetivity, so same list above just without graphics card for prospective, gold rated, full modular and unless your going to game then 450w would be plenty for any graphics card under 150w even if you put a 6 core processor in the mix.

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with your potential extended budget its certainly worth it.
 
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