Recommenations for PC please?

I am building a PC for a friend, he does lots of Photoshop work and would like to do some 3D designing.

He currently has a laptop, and would like a desktop.

Budget £700 Incl All accessories like monitor etc.

I do not know much about GPU's for Graphic desiging, he says that NVidia are the best because they have Open GL, so would something like a GTX 285 be a good choice?

I have a build in mind, but would like to compare it to some of your recommendations, and compare, thankyou!

Please choose all components from This site. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/

 

Just spoken to him, the £700 does not include a monitor.

 

He's not referring to the nVidia Quadro series of workstation cards is he? Those are the preferred choice for 3D and CAD designers but can be very expensive. $400-$1000 US, not sure what that equates to in pounds.

Sam

 

+1 on the quadro cards

They are expensive but well worth it for 3D Rendering/Design

 

No, he is not looking at spending that much, around £180 max for the GPU. Around $230 for you guys

 

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/200911
Here you go, I know it is not from overclockers but I use eBuyer all the time and I have found them to offer a great deal on most things.

 

Thankyou, but is better here http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-016-ZT&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1341

I am thinking of using the i3, what advantage would an i5 have over the i3 doing the tasks mentioned?

 

Thanks for that, I may start using OCs more in the future then.

For design work, the faster the processor, and the faster the interface, the faster images/movies etc are processed and the faster edits are made.

The i5 has a faster architecture, therefore I would use the i5 over the i3 for video processing etc. But if he can afford an i7 in 1366 rather than 1156 it would be even better.

 

I believe PS is quad-core aware though I couldn't find anything on it.

Case, optical drive, kbd & mouse 150 UK
Intel Core i3 530 2.93GHz (Clarkdale) (Socket LGA1156) - 104 UK
Intel 1156 motherboard 100 UK
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual 110 UK
Corsair TX 650W ATX SLi Compliant Power Supply for a 260 to 285 GTX video card. 87 UK
Windows 7 100 UK
hard drive 50 to 100

hey, mix and match as you choose but that's the basics there.

 

If your friend does photoshop and 3D Design why go with a dual core?

I consider that a bottleneck for the type of application.

I would highly suggest a quad core.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-244-AM

An AMD quad for only a little bit more.

 

I'd look into AMD because of it being a budget rig

 

The i3 and i5 has Hyper Threading which pretty much makes them a quad.

But i will look into that 955, if you can find any photoshop reviews that would really help.

 

Not really. It helps but they aren't as fast as 2 more physical cores.

 

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2921/2 may be of help to you.

 

Nice one!

Just what i was looking for.