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So my friend has finally decided to upgrade his ooooooold dual core rig. He is an amateur photographer but a semi pro at photoshop, his rig is just too dyer for words but finally he has had the ok from his mrs to spend some money 
He is on a tight budget (£500 - £550) and after talking to some of you we have come up with this -
YOUR BASKET
1 x BenQ G2222HDL 21.5" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £119.99
1 x Samsung 128GB SSD 830 Desktop Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC128D/EU) £89.99
1 x AMD A6-3670K 2.70GHz (Socket FM1) APU Processor (AD3670WNGXBOX) **£10 Cashback** £85.99
1 x Asus F1A75-M AMD A75 Chipset (Socket FM1) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard ** FREE NEXUIZ GAME ** £72.79
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus' Power Supply (CMPSU-430CXUKV2) £36.98
1 x MSI HD 6450 1024MB GDDR3 Low Profile PCI-Express Graphics Card £31.99
1 x OcUK Value 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit £29.99
1 x Arctic Silentium T11 Midi Tower Case - Black £26.99
1 x Alpenföhn Civetta CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/1156/1155/AM2/AM2(+)/AM3/FM1) £12.38
1 x OcUK Value 3m DVI to HDMI Gold Plated Cable (CDLDV-303) £7.99
Total : £515.09 (includes shipping : FREE).
I know you might say loose the GPU, use the on board and put the extra cash towards an IPS monitor but what you have to bare in mind in that he does not sell his pictures.
He also has one of these monitors already but wants a second, also as you maybe aware the llano CPUs offer hybrid crossfire and as photoshop does benefit from graphic acceleration we chose to add a cheep 6450 GPU!
What we will be doing this weekend is running some tests on his old rig -
1) windows start up (fully ready) and shut down.
2) photoshop start up.
3) bridge start up.
4) 35 image photo merge (panoramic).
His old rig is an old intel dual core (cant remember which) 2GHz, 4GB ram, 320GB HDD.
Im hoping from the above to introduce him to current tech and show him what he has been missing out on
He is on a tight budget (£500 - £550) and after talking to some of you we have come up with this -
YOUR BASKET
1 x BenQ G2222HDL 21.5" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £119.99
1 x Samsung 128GB SSD 830 Desktop Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC128D/EU) £89.99
1 x AMD A6-3670K 2.70GHz (Socket FM1) APU Processor (AD3670WNGXBOX) **£10 Cashback** £85.99
1 x Asus F1A75-M AMD A75 Chipset (Socket FM1) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard ** FREE NEXUIZ GAME ** £72.79
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus' Power Supply (CMPSU-430CXUKV2) £36.98
1 x MSI HD 6450 1024MB GDDR3 Low Profile PCI-Express Graphics Card £31.99
1 x OcUK Value 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit £29.99
1 x Arctic Silentium T11 Midi Tower Case - Black £26.99
1 x Alpenföhn Civetta CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/1156/1155/AM2/AM2(+)/AM3/FM1) £12.38
1 x OcUK Value 3m DVI to HDMI Gold Plated Cable (CDLDV-303) £7.99
Total : £515.09 (includes shipping : FREE).
I know you might say loose the GPU, use the on board and put the extra cash towards an IPS monitor but what you have to bare in mind in that he does not sell his pictures.
He also has one of these monitors already but wants a second, also as you maybe aware the llano CPUs offer hybrid crossfire and as photoshop does benefit from graphic acceleration we chose to add a cheep 6450 GPU!
What we will be doing this weekend is running some tests on his old rig -
1) windows start up (fully ready) and shut down.
2) photoshop start up.
3) bridge start up.
4) 35 image photo merge (panoramic).
His old rig is an old intel dual core (cant remember which) 2GHz, 4GB ram, 320GB HDD.
Im hoping from the above to introduce him to current tech and show him what he has been missing out on
