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Intel i5 760 Combo

* Xclio Color I, Black Mid Tower Case w/o PSU
* 500W Corsair Builder Series CMPSU-500CXUK, ATX, PS/2, Power Supply, Single 12V Rail, 80%+ Efficient
* Intel i5 760, S1156, Lynnfield Quad Core, 2.8 GHz, 8MB Cache, Core Ratio 21x, 95W, Retail
* Asus P7P55D-E, Intel P55 Express, S1156, PCI-E 2.0 (x16), DDR3 2200(OC), SATA 6Gb/s, SATA RAID, ATX
* 1TB Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3, SATA 3Gb/s, 7200rpm, 32MB Cache, 8.9 ms, NCQ, OEM
* 4GB (2x2GB) Corsair Dominator DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600), Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 9-9-9-24, DHX, 1.65v
* Pioneer DVR-S18LBK 22x DVD±R, 12x DVD±DL, DVD+RW x8/-RW x6, RAM x12, SATA, Black, Retail Labelflash


HELP. Any good for editing VERY HIGH RES photos? 40MP....

Gary.
 
Yep! I assume it's Windows7 64bit and you end up connecting a decent monitor to it?
 
Does it have a graphics card? Might be useful.:)
 
What???? Not a Mac?;)
 
Oh, and does mean there is an impending Hasselblad arrival to be expected?
 
PsiFox said:
Does it have a graphics card? Might be useful.:)
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I dunno - I thought in that wall of text it might have. Clueless.

Kev M said:
What???? Not a Mac?;)
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I can't justify another £1K+. This is for using at home, all my other home kit is now in the studio and I am PCless :(

Also, this is going to be controversial. I have the 24" (2009) and the 27" (2010) iMacs. The 2010 ver I opted for the more expensive of the two (£1,600 ish). All my windows PC's absolutely murder it speed wise, however - I enjoy the 27" iMac the most due to the sheer sexiness of it.

The speed difference is mainly inside Capture NX 2.0 - less noticeable in things like Photo Shop (but still noticeable). Capture NX, I want to KILL my IMac.

G.
 
EdinburghGary said:
I dunno - I thought in that wall of text it might have. Clueless.




I can't justify another £1K+. This is for using at home, all my other home kit is now in the studio and I am PCless :(

Also, this is going to be controversial. I have the 24" (2009) and the 27" (2010) iMacs. The 2010 ver I opted for the more expensive of the two (£1,600 ish). All my windows PC's absolutely murder it speed wise, however - I enjoy the 27" iMac the most due to the sheer sexiness of it.

The speed difference is mainly inside Capture NX 2.0 - less noticeable in things like Photo Shop (but still noticeable). Capture NX, I want to KILL my IMac.

G.
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In the spec you posted there is no mention of graphics.
I'm assuming it is on board and utilising system RAM.

A better option is a dedicated card with it's own memory which leaves sustem RAM alone.
 
EdinburghGary said:
It's nearly XMAS time :D
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Good man:thumbs: Somebody has to get us out of this recession and I think your gear acquisition habit could be just the ticket.;) Seriously though, you work hard enough so why not treat yourself.
 
Kev M said:
Good man:thumbs: Somebody has to get us out of this recession and I think your gear acquisition habit could be just the ticket.;) Seriously though, you work hard enough so why not treat yourself.
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I have the quote, and have specified my typical shooting day in the studio. The bill is around £15K, and that includes £850 of batteries to allow me to shoot 1,000+ shots on a weekend day. It's ludicrous - but I still want it.

H4D & 35 to 90 mm.

G.
 
1000+ shots on a weekend day on a weekend day? Best you factor in some extra storage for all those enormous files you're going to have then.
 
Kev M said:
1000+ shots on a weekend day on a weekend day? Best you factor in some extra storage for all those enormous files you're going to have then.
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Yeah - he recommended 4 or 5 64gb cards, makes me nervous though....if one went BOOM.

I could also do the whole tethered thing I guess, straight to a lappy.

G.
 
Its almost exactly the same spec as my PC bar the Hard drive, and mine has a GTX470 graphics card.
Get more RAM for sure, but I think the rest will be ok. You may want to consider an i7 processor, but I havent had any problems with my i5 760 with 50MB Tiff files.

I might also change the PSU to an 800w, as I had a 500w in mine and it went boom on the first startup.

And you'll deffo want more hard drive space, maybe some external drives rather than built in.
 
EdinburghGary said:
Also, this is going to be controversial. I have the 24" (2009) and the 27" (2010) iMacs. The 2010 ver I opted for the more expensive of the two (£1,600 ish). All my windows PC's absolutely murder it speed wise, however - I enjoy the 27" iMac the most due to the sheer sexiness of it.

The speed difference is mainly inside Capture NX 2.0 - less noticeable in things like Photo Shop (but still noticeable). Capture NX, I want to KILL my IMac.

G.
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AHAH at last.. Ive been saying for ages my PC beats the pants of my 24" 2.4Ghz iMac, but no-one believes me...The mac is so infuriating, I actually rarely bother to tuun it on anymore.
 
Yay ive been telling him for ages Windows for the win:)
 
EdinburghGary said:
What's it worth £££ ?
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With what you've quoted £450-£500, and not a lot more.

It's spec'd up as a 32bit model, and as others have already said you would be better off with a 64 bit OS, 8Gb of RAM and probably a graphics card with dedicated memory, which will be another £300 odd on top of the base price.
 
The mobo quoted seems to be one without onboard graphics, although Asus do several variants with that "name", so a graphics card of some kind should be included in the computer even though it isn't listed in the spec. Windows 7 comes with both 32 and 64 bit versions, at least my retail copy did, so going 64 bit shouldn't add to the cost. An extra 4GB RAM won't cost £300, even if it's buffered ECC (which it won't be with that processor). TBH unless you are video editing I'm not sure you would see much benefit from that much memory though - I have 6GB at home and when photo processing I typically use less than half of it.

If you want raw processing power one of the better i7 processors or ideally something with dual Xeons would be the way to go.
 
I would concur with the minimum 6Gb of RAM.

You can never have enough RAM or a big enough hard drive :)
 
EdinburghGary said:
I didn't want to spend a penny more than £500 (I already have an £800 monitor waiting for whatever I buy). If I absolutely must, the budget can go to £1,000 - needs to be justifiable.

G.
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lol, that's like having a point and shoot wrapped in a D3 shell.

If it's for business and judging by your previous threads on how busy you are then even an extra few seconds longer for each process is going to mount up and fustrate you.

An £800 monitor I'm guessing will be many many inches and will need a good graphics card to cope accordingly.

BUT

It's very easy to upgrade and fit a new graphics card, as is RAM and Hard drives, they are all plug and play basically. The processor is a bit more tricky and time consuming to upgrade.

If £500 is the budget then I'd focus on the processor and upgrade the other stuff as you need it. I'd go for 64-bit Windows to save you having to upgrade it at a later time.

Image sizes are probably only going to get larger each year!
 
Gary, for 500 quid you can build a floomin' awesome machine. You need at least 8 gigs and a phenom II or similar processor. Buying any ready made machine will scimp on the PSU, which is far, far too important to scimp on. Putting one together yourself should take no more than an hour and is very satisfying.
 
The23rdman said:
Gary, for 500 quid you can build a floomin' awesome machine. You need at least 8 gigs and a phenom II or similar processor. Buying any ready made machine will scimp on the PSU, which is far, far too important to scimp on. Putting one together yourself should take no more than an hour and is very satisfying.
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If purchased separately the parts for Novatech's Phenom II X6 machine are a lot more than £500.

  • CPU: Phenom II X6 1090 - £219
  • Graphics: ATI Radeon 5770 - £110
  • PSU: Novatech Powerstation 600W - £50
  • Supplied RAM (4GB DDR3) - £66
  • Extra RAM: (4GB DDR3) - £66
  • Case: e.g. Antec - £50
  • Hard drives - 2 x 1TB WD Caviar - £94

The total so far is £589. Add a main board, optical drive, fans, mouse & keyboard etc and it'll be way over £700. In fact it's likely to be approaching £800.
 
Quad core i5 or i7 and a bucket of memory (8gb at least!) along with a cheapish dedicated gfx will all be fine. Not sure i would go AMD for this, in fact I think I wouls want an i7 and splash out a little more money.
 
menthel said:
Quad core i5 or i7 and a bucket of memory (8gb at least!) along with a cheapish dedicated gfx will all be fine. Not sure i would go AMD for this, in fact I think I wouls want an i7 and splash out a little more money.
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this with knobs on.

also i wouldnt worry about going for bigger than 500w PSU providing its a decent brand. cheap PSU=fail.
 
Just buy another Mac you tight a** :)
 
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