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I'm seriously considering selling my iMac and building a PC to use for my photography.

I've had 2 hard drive failures in the time I've had it. That does not bother me so much as I always have a up to date backup, it's nearly £250 a time Apple charged me to replace a £50 component that has hurt most.

To be honest it was bought on a whim and has been a pain during the 2 and a bit years that I have had it
 
Apple used to be the choice for anything graphics orientated.
Now there is so much more to choose from.
Personally I'd build my own pc.
 
You thinking of buying, or building?


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Sorry.. should have read better.. building.

What's your budget?
 
Yup. Need to know budget (don't forget to budget for a decent monitor too - a decent Dell 27" IPS is around £500)
 
The monitor I had in mind was this Dell UltraSharp U2412M IPS LED 24" DVI-D Monitor which is only £239 from ebuyer.

My budget is £800 ish
 
redsnappa said:
The monitor I had in mind was this Dell UltraSharp U2412M IPS LED 24" DVI-D Monitor which is only £239 from ebuyer.

My budget is £800 ish
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Yup.. 2412 is a good monitor.

Is £800 including or excluding the monitor and are you thinking of overclocking it at all (easy on the latest Intel chips). If you want to spec. it yourself:

  • i5-3xxx (i5-3xxxK if you want to overclock),
  • decent mobo from Asus/Gigabyte 8 or 16G of memory, onboard graphics will do for photography, so get a mobo capable of running that if you fancy - if not, almost any card will do,
  • 128G SSD for system disk, another (256 is better here) if you can afford as the general user disk,
  • decent power supply (e.g. Corsair CX)
  • peripherals.
 
I reckon I can get my pc built and monitor within my £800 budget.

I don't think the SSDs will fit into my budget I was thinking of a 250GB HDD for OS & apps & 2TB for data. For the video card I was thinking of getting of getting a second hand Radeon 4870 for around 35 - 40 quid
 
You can get the 2412M from PCBuyit for £200 delivered - so there's an extra £40 for a start ;)

You can definitely build a decent system for £600...
 
Just, whatever you do, do NOT skimp on the power supply. The biggest cause of crap PCs ever, has to be crap PSUs. Anything by Corsair, or Enermax will do.
 
Pookeyhead said:
Just, whatever you do, do NOT skimp on the power supply. The biggest cause of crap PCs ever, has to be crap PSUs. Anything by Corsair, or Enermax will do.
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This I can agree with, my last pc went belly up through this.

My new one which I specked myself had a lovely corsair fitted.

Take a look at these people this is who I got my tower from http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/

Very good service and you can upgrade or down grade all you want
 
redsnappa said:
I'm seriously considering selling my iMac and building a PC to use for my photography.

I've had 2 hard drive failures in the time I've had it. That does not bother me so much as I always have a up to date backup, it's nearly £250 a time Apple charged me to replace a £50 component that has hurt most.

To be honest it was bought on a whim and has been a pain during the 2 and a bit years that I have had it
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Thats Apple all over charging well over the odds for the same as a PC.
 
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