Desktop PC question
08 October 2016, 08:41 PM
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Desktop PC question
Hey folks,
Firstly, I know pretty much nothing about PC's, hence the post! I am looking to buy a desktop PC pretty soon and would like some advice on what to go for as it seems like a hugely over-saturated market! It will be used primarily for office, however, in time it will be running design programmes. I would like it to have a CD burner aswell (probably showing my age a bit at the moment....last time I had a PC was early 2000's where a CD burner was the height of tech lol). I may do a bit of gaming on it aswell, so something with a fairly decent graphics card but doesn't have to be ground-breakinly brilliant. I don't need a monitor. Budget of £500 max.
Cheers guys.
Firstly, I know pretty much nothing about PC's, hence the post! I am looking to buy a desktop PC pretty soon and would like some advice on what to go for as it seems like a hugely over-saturated market! It will be used primarily for office, however, in time it will be running design programmes. I would like it to have a CD burner aswell (probably showing my age a bit at the moment....last time I had a PC was early 2000's where a CD burner was the height of tech lol). I may do a bit of gaming on it aswell, so something with a fairly decent graphics card but doesn't have to be ground-breakinly brilliant. I don't need a monitor. Budget of £500 max.
Cheers guys.
10 October 2016, 09:24 AM
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Hey folks,
Firstly, I know pretty much nothing about PC's, hence the post! I am looking to buy a desktop PC pretty soon and would like some advice on what to go for as it seems like a hugely over-saturated market! It will be used primarily for office, however, in time it will be running design programmes. I would like it to have a CD burner aswell (probably showing my age a bit at the moment....last time I had a PC was early 2000's where a CD burner was the height of tech lol). I may do a bit of gaming on it aswell, so something with a fairly decent graphics card but doesn't have to be ground-breakinly brilliant. I don't need a monitor. Budget of £500 max.
Cheers guys.
Firstly, I know pretty much nothing about PC's, hence the post! I am looking to buy a desktop PC pretty soon and would like some advice on what to go for as it seems like a hugely over-saturated market! It will be used primarily for office, however, in time it will be running design programmes. I would like it to have a CD burner aswell (probably showing my age a bit at the moment....last time I had a PC was early 2000's where a CD burner was the height of tech lol). I may do a bit of gaming on it aswell, so something with a fairly decent graphics card but doesn't have to be ground-breakinly brilliant. I don't need a monitor. Budget of £500 max.
Cheers guys.
What priority do you put on design vs gaming?
Budget means you will have to prioritise.
10 October 2016, 10:59 AM
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I don't know what you get for £500 as I always build my own.
Definitely get an SSD for system drive - I can't stress this enough. Go for a 256GB Samsung SSD. Mechanical drives are fine for data and cheap too.
You can never have too much memory, so budget for 16gb.
CPU and GPU will depend upon the Design/Gaming software. You could probably get away with a cheap i3 for day to day work. Although an i5 is better and will easily overclock to 4k+
i7s are probably overkill.
Try and stretch your budget a little further and look for an i5 4760k or similar and a GTX970 GPU.
Definitely get an SSD for system drive - I can't stress this enough. Go for a 256GB Samsung SSD. Mechanical drives are fine for data and cheap too.
You can never have too much memory, so budget for 16gb.
CPU and GPU will depend upon the Design/Gaming software. You could probably get away with a cheap i3 for day to day work. Although an i5 is better and will easily overclock to 4k+
i7s are probably overkill.
Try and stretch your budget a little further and look for an i5 4760k or similar and a GTX970 GPU.
10 October 2016, 12:13 PM
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You wont get an i5 4760k with a GTX970 and 16GB of ram for £500 retail, possible if you go for an AMD CPU instead, but i wouldn't recommend that for your needs.
For what you want you need to raise your budget to ~£700-800 imo from a retail webshop like PC specialist for example;
https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/
Then configure your spec or give them a call and let them do it for you, based on your needs.
For what you want you need to raise your budget to ~£700-800 imo from a retail webshop like PC specialist for example;
https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/
Then configure your spec or give them a call and let them do it for you, based on your needs.
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