Spec me Up, Office PC

[lego]

Looking to upgrade a couple of the ageing pc's in the office. Already have things like Case, Optical drives, monitors ect, so just looking for Mobo/cpu/ram/hdd.

Whats needed: Both machines currently use tri-screen setups so something that will support that, or allow for one of the current cards to be swapped (ATI flavour)

Whats run: We currently use a range of web and graphics software, mainly though its photoshop/ illustator/ dreamweaver and maybe a couple of serif apps.

Budget: Don't have a huge budget to spend, obviously the less the better, plus i don't mind paying a little extra for more benefits. Perhaps varying budgets between £300 and £500 so i could see the advantages


Special Request: As the Office server generally holds all our current data, i was hoping to maybe squeeze ssd's into one of the specs (60gig should do it)

Thanks in Advance

Lego

 

[Reaper 392]

if you could tell us the make/mode of as many of the components as you could that would be great. downloading a program called CPU-Z will tell you most of the important stuff, but you'll need to look inside for a few things:

PSU make/model
if the HDD and DVD drives are IDE or SATA
what size motherboard the case can take (make and model would be great but its not easy to find out with a lot of cases)

knowing that will tell me whats worth keeping and what needs replacing

 

[lego]

The Cases are full ATX.
I'm not looking to re-use the old cpu/ram ect as they are too old (we're talking socket 939 stuff ddr2)
Optical drives are ide, but barely get used, so keeping them isn't a problem.

 

[Clav]

How have you currently got your tri-screens set up? As in what graphics cards, cables and monitors do you have?

 

[lego]

Currently Run tri screens off Ati Cards (1x4300 and 1x3400) Using DVI (2 x 19" portrait, 1 x 24" Landscape")