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Do you work on large files/high end work or occasional videos and pictures?
Can help determine which CPU and RAM will be better compromises.
Can help determine which CPU and RAM will be better compromises.
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No gaming atall, just photo and video work?
A thought.... No optical drive or OS included though.
Key features:
Decent amount of CPU grunt for rendering and encoding (six core piledriver AMD, Intel i7 four or six core would probably be better due to hyperthreading, but not at this price point)
16 of RAM (both photoshop and most video editing packages will appreciate that)
Smaller system drive (SSD would be nice, but struggling to get a decent size one in and meet this budget)
Large, fast data drive
Nvidia based graphics for Cuda
Corsair Vengeance RED 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600Mhz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ16GX3M2A1600C10R)
£139.99 (£116.66)
AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail
£89.99 (£74.99)
MSI GeForce GTX 650 Black Knight OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
£79.99 (£66.66)
Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD
£61.99 (£51.66)
Corsair Builder Series CX 500w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020059-UK)
£55.99(£46.66)
Aerocool Qs-202 Midi Tower Case - Black
£44.99 (£37.49)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) HDD
£41.99 (£34.99)
Asus M5A78L-M LX AMD 760G (Socket AM3+) DDR3 MicroATX Motherboard
£41.99 (£34.99)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 High Performance CPU Cooler
£22.99 (£19.16)
Sub Total : £483.26
Shipping : £17.85
VAT : £100.22
Total : £601.33
It's a start anyway....
Two things I'd like to do if a little more budget were available, would be a better gfx card (maybe GTX 660 or 660Ti) and a 120 Gb SSD for the system drive)
E-I
Key features:
Decent amount of CPU grunt for rendering and encoding (six core piledriver AMD, Intel i7 four or six core would probably be better due to hyperthreading, but not at this price point)
16 of RAM (both photoshop and most video editing packages will appreciate that)
Smaller system drive (SSD would be nice, but struggling to get a decent size one in and meet this budget)
Large, fast data drive
Nvidia based graphics for Cuda
Corsair Vengeance RED 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600Mhz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ16GX3M2A1600C10R)
£139.99 (£116.66)
AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail
£89.99 (£74.99)
MSI GeForce GTX 650 Black Knight OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
£79.99 (£66.66)
Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD
£61.99 (£51.66)
Corsair Builder Series CX 500w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020059-UK)
£55.99(£46.66)
Aerocool Qs-202 Midi Tower Case - Black
£44.99 (£37.49)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST500DM002) HDD
£41.99 (£34.99)
Asus M5A78L-M LX AMD 760G (Socket AM3+) DDR3 MicroATX Motherboard
£41.99 (£34.99)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 High Performance CPU Cooler
£22.99 (£19.16)
Sub Total : £483.26
Shipping : £17.85
VAT : £100.22
Total : £601.33
It's a start anyway....
Two things I'd like to do if a little more budget were available, would be a better gfx card (maybe GTX 660 or 660Ti) and a 120 Gb SSD for the system drive)
E-I
My preference is Adobe Premiere, but that's more the semipro-pro, Pro end and not cheap.
Can't really offer any advice on anything other than that or Avid to be honest, neither of which is a sensible price for your needs.
E-I
Can't really offer any advice on anything other than that or Avid to be honest, neither of which is a sensible price for your needs.
E-I
Try HERE
Lightworks is a big boys toy, but probably very hard to get going with. Lightworks and Avid were the two high end non linear editing systems when it first came into the broadcast industry (instead of tape machines and expensive vision mixing hardware).
Avid won out and are still pretty much the defacto high end solution for TV and Film, whereas lightworks crashed and burned (bit of a VHS/ Betamax, BluRay/ HDDVD situation). It was only because a group of people a few years ago decided to resurrect lightworks again that you can have a fully featured professional edit setup basically for free......
Down side is because its pro, the learning curve is likely VERY steep.
E-I
Lightworks is a big boys toy, but probably very hard to get going with. Lightworks and Avid were the two high end non linear editing systems when it first came into the broadcast industry (instead of tape machines and expensive vision mixing hardware).
Avid won out and are still pretty much the defacto high end solution for TV and Film, whereas lightworks crashed and burned (bit of a VHS/ Betamax, BluRay/ HDDVD situation). It was only because a group of people a few years ago decided to resurrect lightworks again that you can have a fully featured professional edit setup basically for free......
Down side is because its pro, the learning curve is likely VERY steep.
E-I
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Photoshop and some/most video editing software now use Open CL too which AMD can access with its stream processors.
The 6670 has more stream processors than the 650..
Look what i managed on your budget:
YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £119.99
1 x Gigabyte 990XA-UD3 AMD 990X (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Asus HD 6670 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £65.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £65.99
2 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £56.99 (£113.98)
1 x NZXT Source 210 Elite Midi Tower Case - White £39.95
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 400W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £39.95
1 x Silverstone Argon SST-AR01 CPU Cooler - 120mm £28.99
1 x LiteOn IHAS124-14 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £593.23 (includes shipping : £17.85).
The 6670 has more stream processors than the 650..
Look what i managed on your budget:
YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £119.99
1 x Gigabyte 990XA-UD3 AMD 990X (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Asus HD 6670 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £65.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £65.99
2 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £56.99 (£113.98)
1 x NZXT Source 210 Elite Midi Tower Case - White £39.95
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 400W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £39.95
1 x Silverstone Argon SST-AR01 CPU Cooler - 120mm £28.99
1 x LiteOn IHAS124-14 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £593.23 (includes shipping : £17.85).
Photoshop and some/most video editing software now use Open CL too which AMD can access with its stream processors.
The 6670 has more stream processors than the 650..
Look what i managed on your budget:
YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £119.99
1 x Gigabyte 990XA-UD3 AMD 990X (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x Asus HD 6670 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £65.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £65.99
2 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £56.99 (£113.98)
1 x NZXT Source 210 Elite Midi Tower Case - White £39.95
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L8 400W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - With 120mm Silent Wing Fan Built in £39.95
1 x Silverstone Argon SST-AR01 CPU Cooler - 120mm £28.99
1 x LiteOn IHAS124-14 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £593.23 (includes shipping : £17.85).
Second hard drive good idea for editing. Want os on different drive to media.
E-i
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I would sacrifice that for a better CPU to be honest.
If the op wants a seperate drive he can push the budget.
If the op wants a seperate drive he can push the budget.