Photoshop system.

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Hi,
Ive been asked to spec up a system on the cheap for photoshop usage by a friend.


Im unsure what sort of specs i should be looking at.
Its obviously gonna be dual core, and from experiance, 4Gb of memory would come in handy. I was also thinking of two HDDs. A small one for the OS/programs and a second for storage/swap file?

Suggestions?
Keyboard, monitor, mouse & speakers arnt needed btw, and could do with dual display outputs as there are two monitors.

Thanks in advance all. :).
 
I am using a Dell Trinitron P1110 21" @ 1600x1200 with CS3
much much better then a flat screen monitor.

And you can get a refurb P1110 for about £35 now.

hope that helps a bit
 
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Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775) £27.99
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Abit IP35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £64.99
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Western Digital Caviar SE16 640GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD6400AAKS) £59.99
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OcUK ATI Radeon HD 3850 Pro 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £81.99
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Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3250410AS) £33.99
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OcUK Huntkey 550W PSU £34.99
(£41.11) £34.99
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Intel Core 2 Duo E2200 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.20GHz (800FSB) - Retail £46.99
(£55.21) £46.99
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Pioneer DVR-215DBK 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
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needs a case and a budget so we can work towards it
 
jak731 said:
needs a case and a budget so we can work towards it
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Budget is as cheap as possible.

Preferably MATX.
And i dont think that fancy of a graphics card is needed for photo work. So thres -£90 of the price you put. :).
Ive seen a good antec case with a 380W PSU, so theres some more money saved off the PSU.
Can probably use the DVDRW out of the old system as well.
 
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If its a system that is built for using photoshop, I would seriously consider a Q6600 (2.4 quad) if you can afford it. Photoshop uses all cores very efficiently which makes it much smoother to use in general. And yes, for photoshop, CPU is more important than a really fancy graphics card. Also, as much memory as you can afford, 4gb would be good! :)
 
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This is what ive come up with:

Samsung SpinPoint T 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache £48.99 (£57.56)
Intel Core 2 Duo E2200 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.20GHz (800FSB) £46.99 (£55.21)
Antec NSK 4480 Mini Tower Case (Silver) - 380W Earth Watts PSU £44.99 (£52.86)
Samsung SpinPoint S 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD161HJ) £27.99 (£32.89)
Asus P5K-VM Intel G33 Micro ATX (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £52.99 (£62.26)
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2G8004GK) £41.99 (£49.34)
OcUK GeForce 8400 GS 256MB DDR2 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express) £20.99 (£24.66)
Samsung SH-S203D 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) £14.99 (£17.61)

Sub Total : £299.92
Shipping : £10.95
VAT : £54.40
Total : £365.27
 
Billzz said:
If its a system that is built for using photoshop, I would seriously consider a Q6600 (2.4 quad) if you can afford it. Photoshop uses all cores very efficiently which makes it much smoother to use in general. And yes, for photoshop, CPU is more important than a really fancy graphics card. Also, as much memory as you can afford, 4gb would be good! :)
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Its not gonna be used for really heavy PS work.
Its for someone who's just starting out with it. Just learning it.
 
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