Hi all,
I have been tasked with putting together a PC to be used predominantly for Lightroom/Photoshop (with potential for some After Effects but certainly not priority). Budget has been set to a fairly firm £1500 - I'm a little out of my depth and am fully prepared to be laughed at but this is where I'm at:
MBRD - Asus P9X79 PRO Intel Motherboard £190
PROC - Intel Core i7-3930K 3.20GHz LGA2011 12MB Cache Processor (BX80619I73930K) £450
COOLER - Akasa Nero 3 Premier CPU Cooler £25
RAM - G.Skill 32GB (8 x 4GB) DDR3 1600MHz DIMM CL9 Ripjaw Z £160
PSU - Corsair Memory 600W Builder Series CX V2 ATX PSU £50
GFX - Asus GeForce GTX 570 742MHz 1280MB PCI-Express HDMI (DirectCU II) £240
SSD - OCZ Technology 128GB Vertex 4 SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" Solid State Drive £90
HD - Seagate 1TB Barracuda SATA 6Gb/s 64MB 7200RPM Hard Drive £65
DVD - Sony Optiarc 24x Internal DVD Multi Writer (DVD-RW/RAM) with Black Bezel Bare£13
OS - Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium w/SP1 - 1 PC - OEM - DVD - 64-bit £73
CASE - Corsair Carbide Series 300R Gaming Case £64
TOTAL SO FAR: £1,422.61
First things first.. is this even all compatible?! I tried but have only ever done this once before and that was a few years ago!
The plan would be to expand the storage as and when we can as I recognise most places seem pretty firm on 'more is always better!' but worried more specifically about the guts of the system itself right now.
Had hoped to be able to work a monitor into the £1500 budget but don't really think that's going to happen. Obviously colour accuracy is paramount - might have to settle for something like theLG IPS231P-BN 23 inch... seems a bit disappointing but can only do so much!
Thoughts and comments would be much appreciated!
Cheers, Scott
I have been tasked with putting together a PC to be used predominantly for Lightroom/Photoshop (with potential for some After Effects but certainly not priority). Budget has been set to a fairly firm £1500 - I'm a little out of my depth and am fully prepared to be laughed at but this is where I'm at:
MBRD - Asus P9X79 PRO Intel Motherboard £190
PROC - Intel Core i7-3930K 3.20GHz LGA2011 12MB Cache Processor (BX80619I73930K) £450
COOLER - Akasa Nero 3 Premier CPU Cooler £25
RAM - G.Skill 32GB (8 x 4GB) DDR3 1600MHz DIMM CL9 Ripjaw Z £160
PSU - Corsair Memory 600W Builder Series CX V2 ATX PSU £50
GFX - Asus GeForce GTX 570 742MHz 1280MB PCI-Express HDMI (DirectCU II) £240
SSD - OCZ Technology 128GB Vertex 4 SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" Solid State Drive £90
HD - Seagate 1TB Barracuda SATA 6Gb/s 64MB 7200RPM Hard Drive £65
DVD - Sony Optiarc 24x Internal DVD Multi Writer (DVD-RW/RAM) with Black Bezel Bare£13
OS - Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium w/SP1 - 1 PC - OEM - DVD - 64-bit £73
CASE - Corsair Carbide Series 300R Gaming Case £64
TOTAL SO FAR: £1,422.61
First things first.. is this even all compatible?! I tried but have only ever done this once before and that was a few years ago!
The plan would be to expand the storage as and when we can as I recognise most places seem pretty firm on 'more is always better!' but worried more specifically about the guts of the system itself right now.
Had hoped to be able to work a monitor into the £1500 budget but don't really think that's going to happen. Obviously colour accuracy is paramount - might have to settle for something like theLG IPS231P-BN 23 inch... seems a bit disappointing but can only do so much!
Thoughts and comments would be much appreciated!
Cheers, Scott
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