Computer Spec advice please

RJL2005

RJL2005

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Hi folks

My old desktop is dying due to lack of ram and processing speed and I have been offered the following for £325. I run Lightroom 5 and PhotoshopCC.

Your thoughts appreciated!

Happy New Year to all!

Case COOLERMASTER SILEO 500 QUIET MID TOWER
Processor (CPU) AMD PHENOM II X4 965 SOCKET AM3 (3.40GHz/8MB CACHE) - BLACK EDITION
Motherboard ASUS® M4A785TD-V EVO: DUAL DDR3, S-ATA II, 2 x PCIe x16, 1 x PCIe x1, 3 x PCI Memory (RAM) 8GB CORSAIR XMS3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz - LIFETIME WARRANTY!
Graphics Card 1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE 9800GT PCI EXPRESS (Special Offer)
1st Hard Disk 2TB SERIAL ATA 3-Gb/s HARD DRIVE WITH 32MB CACHE (7,200rpm)
2nd Hard Disk 2TB SERIAL ATA 3-Gb/s HARD DRIVE WITH 32MB CACHE (7,200rpm)
DVD Drive 22x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Memory Card Reader INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (READS XD, MS, CF, SD, etc)
Power Supply 450W Quiet Dual Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£25)
Processor Cooling STANDARD AMD CPU COOLER
Sound Card Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Xtreme Audio Networking ONBOARD 10/100/1000
GIGABIT LAN PORT USB Options 8 x USB 2.0 PORTS (6 REAR + 2 FRONT) AS STANDARD
Firewire 2 x IEEE 1394a FIREWIRE PORTS (1 onboard, 1 at back panel)
Operating System Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
 
I just built a Core i5 system (haswell quadcore) with 8 gig of RAM, 128 Gb SSD, 2 TB HDD for the princely sum of £425 including a decent efficient power supply and Windows 7 license.

If you can find another £100 you will get yourself somehing much more sensible.
 
That PC will run photoshop CC & lightroom without any problems but as arad85 it is an old pc with out of date components.
The seller is asking way too much e.g. to update that extremely old graphics card you would have to also replace the no-name PSU.
 
As already said it is out of date with some components you simply do not need in an editing machine, such as the sound card.

Also it is Sata2 and USB2 both of which will severely limit transfer speeds etc.

A minimum these days would be Sata3, USB3, 250GB SSD for the OS and some extra space and at least 1TB Sata3 HDD (or an external USB3 HDD) plus a UEFI BIOS to enable AHCI for the SSD for maximum speed.

If only used for editing then there is no need either for a sound card or graphics card.

And the built in card reader is overkill as you can easily get a USB3 card reader for a few pounds.

And how many people need firewire just for editing photos?
 
Thanks for the input guys. I guess I'll keep on looking.
 
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