Best Desk Top for £800-£1000

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As in the title please ......... I only want the tower/hard drive, I've got a nice monitor already

Looking for a min 2.5Ghz processor and as much memory as possible

My current system is slowly grinding to a halt:bang:

Normally run CS3 / Lightroom etc

Thanks

Ant
 
im sure there are more qualified people than myself but i have been looking at buying a desktop recently in this price range. this would be my choice, (not sure if i can post links, but here goes anyway)

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-042-OE&groupid=43&catid=1080&subcat=

quad-core,pre-overclocked at 3.33 ghz, loads of ram and a fantastic graphics card. from what i have learned this sort of spec is a bit of an overkill for running photo editing but i suppose you could argue that it futureproofs you for a good while.
 
burrachaga said:
im sure there are more qualified people than myself but i have been looking at buying a desktop recently in this price range. this would be my choice, (not sure if i can post links, but here goes anyway)

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-042-OE&groupid=43&catid=1080&subcat=

quad-core,pre-overclocked at 3.33 ghz, loads of ram and a fantastic graphics card. from what i have learned this sort of spec is a bit of an overkill for running photo editing but i suppose you could argue that it futureproofs you for a good while.
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Looks right up my street:D

I've just found this

https://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/Clearance/Refurbished+PCs/PACKARD+BELL/IPX9800/250723
 
I'm not sure whether this is good advice or even practical but have you got a tecchie pal who could custom build one to suit your specific requirements?

A friend of mine recently built a computer for my lodger. It's got everything he wants, nothing that he doesn't want and cost a great deal less than something "off the shelf" (like £700 less! :eek:). Charge for time and labour? £20. My lodger gave him an £80 tip of course :) This particular computer will only ever be used for gaming. The friend who built it is an avid online gamer so knew exactly what was required.

When I need a new computer I'll get a different friend to build it - the friend who's a keen photographer and avidly into image editing. He'll know just what I'm after because his interests are so closely tied in with my own.

p.s. Having said all that I've just had a new computer at work and that was off the shelf. Not sure what the spec is or anything (Dell Vostro? :shrug:) or how much it cost but it performs well.
 
You don't need specialist skills to build computers, you can either build them or you can't :P

Getting a friend to build is all well and good until you have a problem....where buying from a company is useful :) I build all my own because I know what I'm doing, and it does save you a lot of money...

For what it's worth, I just priced up a Dell workstation, with a beefy quad-core Core i7 processor, 8GB of RAM, and 2TB HDD for £959, which would tear through any image editing you want to throw at it :)
 
mid_gen said:
You don't need specialist skills to build computers, you can either build them or you can't :P

Getting a friend to build is all well and good until you have a problem....where buying from a company is useful :) I build all my own because I know what I'm doing, and it does save you a lot of money...

For what it's worth, I just priced up a Dell workstation, with a beefy quad-core Core i7 processor, 8GB of RAM, and 2TB HDD for £959, which would tear through any image editing you want to throw at it :)
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how much would it cost to build that setup inc the OS :)
 
Priced up something quikly on ocuk, came to £880.

Factor in the effort required to build the darn thing, and a year's support.....off-the-shelf systems reallly aren't that badly priced.

I would certainly reccomend a non-techie buy a computer with some real technical support.
 
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