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Castiel

Castiel

Castiel

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A spec me thread. The father in law wants something to use for CS6/CAD and general office stuff. Budget is around £700. Case due to limitations on the area he wants to put it can be no larger than the Corsair Carbide 200R, and he has specified 16Gb Ram and a i5 3570 processor. The only other requirement is that it needs to be as quiet as possible (normal ambient sound)....there will be no over-clocking either.

I am more used to building gaming PCs so my build is probably overkill., so any advice and specs are most welcome. :)
 
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16gb RAM + i5 3570 sounds good so far. An SSD would be nice too.

As far as graphics goes, I don't know about CAD but as long as he's using standard photoshop without any fancy plugins he won't need much horsepower. Integrated should suffice.
 
reflux said:
16gb RAM + i5 3570 sounds good so far. An SSD would be nice too.

As far as graphics goes, I don't know about CAD but as long as he's using standard photoshop without any fancy plugins he won't need much horsepower. Integrated should suffice.
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I think he wants to utilise cuda for something so an nvidia card of some sort is probably what he is after...an SSD is probably a bit wasted on him tbh and its money better spent elsewhere.
 
Does he have any components, including an OS from an existing PC he can reuse?
An i7 3770k would be better suited.
 
Idleman said:
Does he have any components, including an OS from an existing PC he can reuse?
An i7 3770k would be better suited.
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No, his old dell is way to old, he needs W7, although I do have an old GTX640 lying about....

why would an i7 3770k be better suited to such a machine? there will no over-clocking, no gaming and no intensive anything tbh and what does the extra £100 actually buy you over the i5 3570?
 
1 x Intel Core i5-3570 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £169.99
1 x Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Tomb Raider & Bioshock PC Games £161.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX16GX3M2A1600C11) £89.99
1 x ASRock Z77 Pro4-M Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £75.95
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) HDD £59.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black £49.99
1 x Windows 8 Pro Upgrade Edition - from XP SP3 / Vista / Windows 7 £44.99
1 x OCZ CoreXtreme 500w '80 Plus' Power Supply £32.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.98
Total : £717.46 (includes shipping : £10.50).



for me the cheapest liquid cooler would be better than stock tbh, as it will keep it cooler and less sound as you said no overclock etc

plus you get free del :)

cuda will add nothing either as all cad products support dx or open gl and all amd cards same as all nvidia, no budget for a pro card and not needed either if he doesn't need a i7 either
 
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It's more for CS6 than Autocad tbh, any CAD stuff he will do (he's a retired architect) would be fairly basic. He definitely doesn't need a Quadro or any thing like that.
 
reflux said:
Yeah, do you know what he needs CUDA for? Cos iirc the only Adobe product that uses it is Premiere.
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I have no idea...he just said that he wants Cuda....what for I don't know. I don't think he really needs to spend as much as £160 on a GPU anyway. I was going to shove the GTX640 I already have in it and see if that was sufficent before buying another.

He doesn't want W8 so W7 is a must.
 
 
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