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Spuds

Spuds

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Hi guys, I'm planning on getting a new PC once my exams finish next week, I've a budget of around £750 inc VAT and delivery (To Northern Ireland which is always a bugger). I mostly need it for batch processing several hundred 10MB RAW files in PhotoShop as well as some gaming, err... I mean revision and writing my dissertation ;)

Here's what I'm thinking at the minute:

PSU
Hiper HPU-4M580 Type R 580W ATX2.2 PSU
£56.39

GPU
HIS ATI Radeon X1950 Pro ICEQ 3 TURBO SILENT Heatpipe 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
£155.09

CPU
Intel Core 2 DUO E6400 "LGA775 Allendale" 2.13GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
£149.21

Motherboard
DFI Infinity 975X (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2
£99.86

RAM
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit
£152.74

HDD
Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB 2500KS SATA-II 16MB Cache
£50.51

DVD
Samsung SH-S182D 18x18 DVD±RW ReWriter (Black)
£19.96

Case
Akasa AK-ZEN-01-BK Zen Black Case - No PSU
£31.71

Delivery
£18.45

Total
£733.93 inc VAT & Delivery

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated
 
Drop the Hiper PSU and possibly get the Corsair 520W model. Also drop down to the E6300 if you will be overclocking. And possibly go for a 965P chipset board i.e DS3/4/DQ6 or the P5B range; they like the lower caches on the E63/400 CPUs.
 
As said, drop the PSU to the Corsair 520W. Drop to an E6300 and get the DS3. Perhaps with the extra saved (if there is) get a higher HDD. As 250GB may limit you with RAW Files.
 
yep corsair PSU seem to be the most reliable PSU's around imo. DS3 board should be great my DQ6 is. And then you can overclock the E6300 to 2.8 on stock volts. I would also get a Arctic cooler 7 pro is you want silence ;).
 
What about something like this?

Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C5 TwinX (2x1GB)
Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
HIS ATI Radeon X1950 Pro ICEQ 3 TURBO SILENT Heatpipe 256MB GDDR3
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK)
Samsung SH-S182D 18x18 DVD±RW ReWriter (Black) - OEM
Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Aluminium Midi-Tower Case - Black

Total: £757.72 inc. Delivery

Could even drop the case and buy a 400GB HDD. Aswell as perhaps get the S3 instead of the DS3 if not overclocking.
 
Spuds said:
Sorry I should have said, I'm not planning on doing any overclocking at the minute. I also archive most of my images on several external drives once their edited but I'll look at a bigger drive, how about the Samsung SpinPoint T HD400LJ 400GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM
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The Samsung drives I've heard are very reliable, so good choice there.

And if you're not overclocking then stick with the E6400, or if you can afford it go for the E6600 for the extra cache and stock speed.
 
As your not overclocking:

Intel Core 2 DUO E6400 "LGA775 Allendale" 2.13GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
OcUK 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Kit
Gigabyte GA_965P_S3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
HIS ATI Radeon X1950 Pro ICEQ 3 TURBO SILENT Heatpipe 256MB GDDR3
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK)
Samsung SH-S182D 18x18 DVD±RW ReWriter (Black) - OEM
Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Aluminium Midi-Tower Case - Black
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 400GB ST3400620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache

Total : £763.60 inc. Delivery
 
Syk3 said:
As your not overclocking:

Intel Core 2 DUO E6400 "LGA775 Allendale" 2.13GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
OcUK 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Kit
Gigabyte GA_965P_S3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
HIS ATI Radeon X1950 Pro ICEQ 3 TURBO SILENT Heatpipe 256MB GDDR3
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK)
Samsung SH-S182D 18x18 DVD±RW ReWriter (Black) - OEM
Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Aluminium Midi-Tower Case - Black
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 400GB ST3400620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache

Total : £763.60 inc. Delivery
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Looks good although it's only another £20 for the 512MB X1950 so I might stretch my budget slightly and go for it instead...
 
Spuds said:
Looks good although it's only another £20 for the 512MB X1950 so I might stretch my budget slightly and go for it instead...
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The reason i dropped it down, was due to the HDD & Case/PSU.

£800 would get you a very solid PC ;)
 
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