Spec me a machine for £600

jesta

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My mate wants to get a desktop and doesn't know much about PC parts so he has asked me to help. Having been out the loop for 2 years I no longer know which components are decent so I am hoping you fine fellows here can help me.

He is looking to spend £600 on the system including everything bar speakers, mouse and keyboard he will mainly use it for photoshop, rendering (Cinema 4D, etc), 3D modelling and if possible some gaming. Would £600 be enough to do these things easily?

Thanks guys.
 
Hi, yes, it will be more than enough!
for 3D modeling use Q6600 or E8500 processors!this CPU's overclocks PERFECT and they are not expensive!(~£160) or E8400 even cheaper...
for new games, blue-rays, photoshop get 4850 or better go for 4870 for less than £170!
not sure which motherboard: i prefer ASUS, i think they make one of the best...get one of P5Q series! (£100-£150)
get OCZ memory 2GB-4GB it is on sale only for £40 4GB
logitecH 5.1 speakers for ~£50, wireless mouse+ keyboard- i prefer LOGITECH (£20)
...it will be really good choice:fast performance, famous brands...
 
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Hey, my mate doesn't need any speakers, mouse and keyboard or software. Are the Q6600 and E8400 quad core or dual core? Whats a good size monitor and brand to go for?
 
jesta said:
Hey, my mate doesn't need any speakers, mouse and keyboard or software. Are the Q6600 and E8400 quad core or dual core? Whats a good size monitor and brand to go for?
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Q6600 is Quad and E8400 is dual. Right now people seem to like the Q6600 and i'm getting one myself.

As for monitors, I really like Viewsonic. I've got a 22" non-widescreen one from 2 years ago that's still sweet. There's a 22" widescreen 1080p 1920x1080Resolution 20,000:1 Contrast Ratio on OC for 170 quid. I havn't tried it but I reckon that'd be awesome.
 
How about the £750 system on The £300-£1250 Tower, Full & HTPC System Weekly Builds Thread

Less: OS, keyboard, mouse, and delivery.
 
get 6600, it is quad 2 core 2,6ghz...it overclocks relly good, but some orgue that the bills for electricity are high...
E8....-series more economic.
about monitor, well, i think it is up to him or you to chose, but whatever you chose i think will be ok...lg, dell, vewsonic, etc.
 
Thanks for the replies, would it be better to go for quad core over dual core if hes rendering as I believe it uses ram and CPU rather than graphic card? Could someone spec me a proper system with a case, psu, hard drive etc as I have no idea what's a decent hard drive and psu (had a Hiper before for my PSU so I'm bad with PSU decisions :p).
 
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For rendering I'd go with the quad, get it overclocked using the freezer 7 pro, should get to at least 3ghz.

With free delivery it comes to about £615.
 
To get a monitor in that spec, you'd need to drop the CPU down to an E5200 and drop the graphics card down to a 4670. Should leave you about £150 for a decent monitor. For a quad core machine you'll need to increase the budget for a monitor, or could possibly go for a cheap amd phenom setup. I've never spec'd one, so someone else would be better checking if this is any good.

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You could drop the monitor down to a cheaper alternative

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp... W2242S-PF 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black

Also just add a cheap dvd-rw to that aswell.

Cheap intel setup but with the 4850

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