This build look ok for 2D graphics work?

In fairness to nvidia, that was the laptop at fault. Driver issues are a good point, and ati are currently killing nvidia on bang for buck.

Sound reasoning about the laptop, I'm sorry to hear it mate. That's quite crap of them but I'm not sure theres much you can do about it.

500 quid can be done I think. Phenom tri core will help somewhat with that, and is probably the right direction to move in. It'll be slower at one thread than an e8400, but it has an extra core and that's going to make a big difference with photoshop. It's also the new socket, and amd are sensible enough not to abandon backwards compatibility. A phenom tricore rig now, and finances permitting in the future move to a nice phenom quad core.

Do you need everything for 500? I'm thinking in particular about the monitor, as that'll take a massive chunk out of the budget. Have any current components you can recycle? Hard drive/case/monitor would be ideal :)

Otherwise not looking good :(
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But I'm an intel guy mainly, only just assembled an amd rig so hopefully someone else can help.
The 4770 series look very good, but don't seem to be in stock in many places
 
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JonJ678 said:
I'm told that photoshop is gpu accelerated these days. I'm skeptical of this, but it may be true.
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CS4 can use CUDA for certain things.

(oh and re: the AutoCAD thing from last week, I went in yesterday but the rooms in question are locked for exam usage at the moment)
 
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I have a 500watt psu which is faily new... well its years old but was only used for a couple of months as the hdd in my pc died.

The case i already have cost me over a hundred quid when new, its some huge antec tower case, not sure of the name but it comes with removable hdd cages and has 4 90odd mm fans in the front and back, so i could make use of it for now.

I have a 19" monitor for now that i can use, failing that i still have my trusty 19" mitsubishi diamond flat.

for os, i will need to use windows vista home premium as i want to stream movies etc from the pc to the xbox and this can only be done effectively through windows media centre.

i have dvd drives and rewriters etc so i dont need those.

really its just hdd, cpu, m/b, and gpu.

if i was to get a cheap hdd for now, how easy is it to copy the entire drive to a better drive later on? ie, operating system, files, everything, complete copy...

would something like this be a good option for cpu etc:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-002-OB
 
right ive had a look through, and going for a lower spec hdd for now and quad core intle only takes me £50 over budget if i re use my old case and psu for a few months.

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or, the amd price comparisson.
but i dont know which would perform better.
From what im reading the intels over clock better, but the amd's are not exactly slow... and the amd has ddr3 and the boards are more compatible with furture releases.

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DDR3 doesn't mean anything with phenom 2, the chips aren't quick enough for it to matter. Out of the two, the intel is faster, but the amd is more upgradable if you feel so inclined later on. I'd take the intel, but I daresay people will recommend either.
You dont need vista, save yourself 80 quid by running windows 7. It may well be in rc stage, but it's still more stable than vista ;)

The sunbeam core contact is very, very good for 775 systems. If it has an amd mounting bracket it'll be very good for those too. So I vote use windows 7, get the sunbeam, and the price will come out close to budget.
The f1 is hardly a low specced drive, it's a very good one.

As for amd/intel, choose your poison. upgradable/quicker now. I have a q9550 and wouldn't even think about getting rid of it for a phenom 2, not that tempted by i7 even.

^Cheers reflux, good to have a definitive answer on that one. I can barely crop screenshots, so don't know very much about image editing :)
 
whats the score with windows i7 though?
it doesnt come with windows media centre so i wont be able to sync the pc with the xbox360... also, are drivers compatible from vista driverss? for example, i run a vinyl graphics cutter machine from my pc, it uses a usb-serial adapter with windows vista drivers.

also, will my waccom tablet work with windows 7? being new i dont want it to be like vista was when it was released... as nothing worked lol
 
I'm running Windows 7 64-bit here (7100) and it comes with Media Centre. All my Vista 64 drivers seem to run fine; indeed, 7 appears so similar that some of the drivers identify themselves on install as Windows 7 drivers when they are labelled Vista.

My Wacom is working fine; installing from disk crashed but I managed to find the Vista drivers on Wacom's website and installed those.
 
I've just had to rma a p5q premium. That not withstanding, I think the boards are excellent and will be buying asus again. They do well with clocking quads too.
Gigabyte/Asus seem to be largely equivalent in most respects. I don't know why that board is so much cheaper than all the others, probably a thread about it somewhere.
P5Q pro is good too :)
 
cool. i think i'll go with that then rather than a board ive never heard of.

Ive also decided that i will buy a decent psu and im a bit paranoid about mine now... i bought it from pcworld for about £50 its 600w but im not sure what the make is, its just a silver box witht he wattage info so im abit paranoid about it.

Id prefer something quite, so possibly the bequiet range? is 550w ample for this sort of system?

i was considering using the credit card, biting the bullet and going for a 920 i7 spec but its 64bit id need and im not convinced things would run smoothly as i have a vinyl cutter and other hardware
 
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