Spec me a Work Machine £700

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Heya,

Need a new machine for work, do a lot of photo editing, massive ammounts of multitasking, virtual machines, remote desktop, etc etc.

Looking around an i7 i think

Can we make it small?

Don't need a massive GPU, could do with a screen and will need an OS.

Cheers

Edit: it's for work so it's £700 EX VAT
 
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You are going to struggle to get what you want/need for that budget. If you want an i7 and 16GB or RAM (and I think you do for multi-tasking and VMs) then this is about the bare minimum:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4790 3.60GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £227.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Fury White 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX318C10FWK2/16) £119.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £73.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £69.95
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £63.98
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £44.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £42.98
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 450W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £39.95
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £10.99
Total : £708.91 (includes shipping : £11.75).


I've assumed you aren't going to overclock.

That obviously doesn't include a monitor, and for photo editing you probably don't want to buy the cheapest one of those either, but somebody else would be better at gtiving you a recommendation for that. I guess you might want to add a GPU for CUDA support in PhotoShop but again that adds to the budget and could be done later if you felt you needed it.
 
Baboonanza said:
You are going to struggle to get what you want/need for that budget. If you want an i7 and 16GB or RAM (and I think you do for multi-tasking and VMs) then this is about the bare minimum:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-4790 3.60GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £227.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Fury White 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX318C10FWK2/16) £119.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £73.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £69.95
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £63.98
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black (CC-9011023-WW) £44.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £42.98
1 x SuperFlower Amazon 450W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply £39.95
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £10.99
Total : £708.91 (includes shipping : £11.75).


I've assumed you aren't going to overclock.

That obviously doesn't include a monitor, and for photo editing you probably don't want to buy the cheapest one of those either, but somebody else would be better at gtiving you a recommendation for that. I guess you might want to add a GPU for CUDA support in PhotoShop but again that adds to the budget and could be done later if you felt you needed it.
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Cheers, i've just added to the original post it's for work so it's £700 EX VAT so can squeeze some more in there :-) Cheers
 
How serious are you about photo-editing? Because a 10 bit GPU and display will eat up that £700 on their own. Even if you're not that serious, you'll want to make sure your monitor uses a full 8 bits per pixel and not 6+2 dithered.

And you'll have to go for Windows 7 Pro / Enterprise / Ultimate or Windows 8 if you want Remote Desktop. The Remote Desktop software isn't in Windows 7 Home Premium.

I have found having multiple screens helps massively with Remote Desktop work. I have the remote system on one display and reference material on another. Really, 4 screens is best: remote on one, ticket tracking on second, email on third, reference on 4th. These days you could get away with two 4K screens in vertical orientation.
 
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