new pc spec pleasehelp

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Well after a lot of thought and my old pc giving me grief I have decided to plump for a new one, so went to a site recomended by people on here after looking through this section.

Does this spec look ok I get it vat free so only costing £538 with delivery.

Should I be looking to change anything that will not break the bank.

This pc gets used daily, for internet forums, booking hols etc, photo editing, storing pics (with an external hard drive aswell) and just general use of word and excell (I have microsoft office to put onto it) I do not play games on it nor watch tv or anything else for that matter its a pc and that is it.



Case

STYLISH BLACK/SILVER TRIDENT CASE + 2 FRONT USB

Processor (CPU)

Intel® Core™i5 Quad Core Processor i5-3550 (3.3GHz) 6MB Cache
Motherboard

ASUS® P8H61-M LE/USB3 (NEW REV 3.0): M-ATX, USB 3.0, SATA 3.0Gb/s
Memory (RAM)

8GB SAMSUNG DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 4GB)
Graphics Card

1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE 210 - DVI,HDMI,VGA
Memory - 1st Hard Disk

1TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 32MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive

24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Memory Card Reader

INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
Power Supply

600W Quiet 80 PLUS Quad Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan
Processor Cooling

SUPER QUIET 22dBA TRIPLE COPPER HEATPIPE INTEL CPU COOLER (£19)
Sound Card

ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities

10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options

4 PORT USB 2.0 INTERNAL PCI CARD + STANDARD USB PORTS
Operating System

Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit w/SP1 - inc DVD & Licence
Office Software

FREE Microsoft® Office Starter 2010 (Limited functionality Word & Excel)


Thanks for looking

spike
 
Thanks for that, which bits would you say where over kill??? might be able to change a few bits and maybe even reduce the cost a little.

spike
 
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Psyence33 said:
depending on what kind of editing. Hardcore editing I'd got for i7.
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I reckon 99.9% of people won't notice the difference. The only time I think you'd notice it is slightly longer recode times for video encoding. Unless you were being "creative" with lots of filters, photo editing isn't going to be noticable IMHO....
 
arad85 said:
I reckon 99.9% of people won't notice the difference. The only time I think you'd notice it is slightly longer recode times for video encoding. Unless you were being "creative" with lots of filters, photo editing isn't going to be noticable IMHO....
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Agreed. Like I think you said, the i5-2500 and the i7-2600 perform pretty much the same except under processes that can use all on the i7 cores (not many).
 
Changed a couple of thing from the spec in OP but just went up not down so all good.

I have now ordered it so just got to wait 2 weeks for it to be made and sent out to me.

Thanks for all the input and advice much appreciated

spike
 
Congrats! Upping the specs is good if you can afford it and worth it just cause you can ;) It might not be a NOTICEABLE difference but there is a difference and every little does help and as all new things it does degrade over time so with a higher spec it'll just last longer in that sense. Coming from a hardcore gamer and photo editor.
 
Woohoo new PC came today from PC specialist, not bad time either for a specked up PC.
Just busy swapping everything over from the old hard drive now, did not realise I had so many pics on it lol.

spike
 
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