Spec me a Photoshop/Premier PC

[regul8]

How do!

My mate has returned from his travels and he wishes me to put him a machine together.

Basically he's proper into photography now and so wants a PC that:

Runs Photoshop/Premier very well
Has a lot of disk space
DVD Burner

Hes says he doesnt need it for games, just for photo/video and web browsing. A pretty decent monitor is also required but he also wants to keep the cost down as much as possible. I was looking at the Asus 19" which looked pretty nice and was just over £100.

Anyway, what would you recommend for the above?

Thanks

 

[TheRedZealot]

I would say a Quadcore, 4Gb of RAM and 2 caviars in Raid0 (500Gb of course) Depending on how fast he want the computer to load.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

How much does he want to spend? Budget is critical for these sort of things.

EDIT: I think RAID 0 is unnecessary for this sort of thing. Why risk data security just to boot faster? PS is not all that I/O bound.

 

[TheRedZealot]

EDIT: I think RAID 0 is unnecessary for this sort of thing. Why risk data security just to boot faster? PS is not all that I/O bound.

I said that it depends on if he like to get on with his work faster or not isnt it Raid5 or something that allows for better security?

 

[BillytheImpaler]

RAID 5 requires at least 3 disks. It uses block striping and has parity data distributed across all member disks. However, it's still overkill! One fast disk will do the trick, two if the budget allows.

 

[TheRedZealot]

How big do HD camera shots get upto these days anyway?

 

[regul8]

Okay sorry, should have been more specific, id say an initial budget of around £500-600 to start and see where we go from there. Its a home machine so doesnt need to be super powerful and will be used for Photoshop more than Premier.

 

[TheRedZealot]

will you be overclocking?

 

[BillytheImpaler]

If you can, stretch to a 20" monitor. The Samsungs are quite nice.

 

[TheRedZealot]

Antec NSK 4480B Mini Tower Case (Black) - 380W Earth Watts PSU £45.99 (£54.04)
Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKS) £55.99 (£65.79)
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £142.99 (£168.01)
Abit IP35-E (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £54.99 (£64.61)
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-5400C5 Dual Channel Vista Upgrade Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2VU6674GK) OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) £64.99 (£76.36)
Gigabyte ATI Radeon 2400 Pro Silent Fanless 256MB DDR2 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GV-RX24P256H) £31.99 (£37.59)
Pioneer DVR-212D 18x18 DVD±RW Serial ATA Dual Layer ReWriter - (Black) OEM £16.99 (£19.96)
Asus VW193S 19" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black £104.99 (£123.36)
Logitech Cordless Desktop EX 110 - Retail £17.99 (£21.14)

Sub Total : £536.91
Shipping : £14.95
VAT : £96.58
Total : £648.44

 

[TheRedZealot]

whoops, ATX board with MATX , go with Billy's spec.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

whoops, ATX board with MATX , go with Billy's spec.

regul8, depending on your HDD storage needs you should choose between 500 GB and 1000 GB. If you choose 500 GB go for the mobo and graphics card in Red's spec.

 

[TheRedZealot]

yay, im useful

If you do go for my spec, change the mobo with:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-090-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=

 

[regul8]

Cheers guys, ill pass this on, many many thanks!

 

[TheRedZealot]

okay, tell us which is chosen