Speccy for £600

shinester184 · 8 Feb 2009 at 16:48

Friend needs advice on a new build with a budget of £600. Will also mainly be used for video editing / encoding a a bit of high end gaming.

Open to AMD/Intel. Just something he can keep upgrading over time.

Thanks.

Angst · 8 Feb 2009 at 17:28

what does he need screen, os, keyboard or just the base system ?

shinester184 · 8 Feb 2009 at 17:41

Just base unit, he's got 700, but the other 100 is for Vista HP.

dangerstat · 8 Feb 2009 at 17:45

shinester184 said:
Friend needs advice on a new build with a budget of £600. Will also mainly be used for video editing / encoding a a bit of high end gaming.

Open to AMD/Intel. Just something he can keep upgrading over time.

Thanks.

Get an Intel Core 2 Quad (for encoding will cope fine with games too), don't go OTT with the RAM keep it to 3GB. Probably beef up on the storage side, 1.5 TB Spinpoint maybe. Probably do it, just throw in a high GPU, GTX maybe

shinester184 · 8 Feb 2009 at 17:52

Will a C2Q and a high specced GPU actually fit within £600? Didn't think it was do-able.

Angst · 8 Feb 2009 at 18:07

shinester184 said:
Will a C2Q and a high specced GPU actually fit within £600? Didn't think it was do-able.

q6600 and hd 4850 or 9800gtx+

95thrifles · 8 Feb 2009 at 18:24

virdee2 · 8 Feb 2009 at 19:02

i would argue on the side of the 4850 too mate - for political reasons :-)

i.e. Nvidia have been giants in the field for too long, so now ATI actually have a card that is at least as good as its Nvidia counterpart, it would be better for competition in general if we leaned to the ATI 4850 :-)

just a lil thought for ya mate