Photoshop PC

[Relentless81]

Hi all,

Please can I get some help with a Photoshop PC specification its for use with Photoshop Design Standard which includes;

Photoshop CS6 Illustrator CS6 InDesign CS6

What kind of spec will run this software happily? I'm stuck on the GPU more than anything as the Adobe site mentions strange GPUs that I'm not used to!

Budget around £1400 for the hardware but that needs to include 2 x 23" monitors

Thanks

 

[Idleman]

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £279.95
1 x MSI GeForce GTX 660 Black Knight 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £179.99
2 x Iiyama Prolite X2377HDS 23" Premium IPS Panel Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £139.99 (£279.98)
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel kit (PV316G160C9K) £101.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £89.99
1 x SanDisk Extreme SSD 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive - (SDSSDX-120G-G25) £83.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02050) £83.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £71.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 300R Mid Tower Case - Black £64.99
1 x Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £59.99
1 x XFX Pro 550W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £54.98
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
Total : £1,409.29 (includes shipping : £32.90).

 

[Sasahara]

i5 would be fine for Design Standard as it doesn't gain from hyper threading.

Depending on what you are actually doing you might not get any benefit from a medium-high end graphics card.