[wd1]

Hello,

I'm designing a website and need help choosing the best components for my desktop computer.

I've chosen the following components:

Intel® Core™ i7-2600 Processor (3.40GHz, 8MB)
English Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium (64 BIT)
12288MB Dual Channel DDR3 1333MHz [2x4096 + 2x2048] Memory
1TB Dual Hard Drive Raid 0 "Stripe" (2x500GB - 7200rpm)
NVIDIA® GeForce GT 545 1GB DDR5 Graphics Card
Blu-Ray ROM combo (Blu-ray read only, DVD, CD read & write) & 16X DVD+/-RW (Win 7 Only)

Two ultra sharp 23'' (58cm) LED VGA,DVI-DP (1920x1080) monitors.

Total inclusive of delivery and VAT = £2,060.02

Please could someone advise me if I need to upgrade or downgrade any of the above components?

Thank you very much to everyone who replies!

[chtyrone]

I'm using a 900mhz SFF Pentium3 with XP.

[kensha]

Keep in mind that there are 3 main components for your computer.
1; Power Supply
2; Video Card [NVidia is the most recommended for video games]
3; Processor.

Usual you already got enough of the power supply but just buy a new graphic card to increase it's graphic part.
Be sure that you check your video card of how much power watt it requires.

If all fails than it's time for a new processor.

But most processor doesn't use like half of it's power.
Well at least for now.

[Sogo7]

For a web design workstation it's overkill,
a lot of folk create stunning websites with way way less hardware.

A reduced Spec for consideration...
Tier1 HP DC5750 / AMD X2 Dual Core 4600 / 250GB HDD / 2GB RAM / CDRW-DVDRW / Windows XP Professional is only £155.99 Inc VAT@misco.co.uk, throw in a little extra RAM with a dual head video card and you'll have plenty left for three monitors, a high res graphics tablet and a decent chair & desk lol! with cash to spare from a budget of £2k

This post has been edited by Sogo7: 31 December 2011 - 11:21 PM

[wd1]

Thanks everyone for your replies!

I won't be using my computer for gaming.

I'll be using applications such as Wordpress, Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Apache, PHP & MySQL. Please could someone advise which components matter the most?

[MarkJenner]

Massively overkill.

A bog standard off-the-shelf PC will cope with all that without any problems.

[wd1]

Thanks for your message Mark.

How about an i7 with 8GB RAM and 1000GB hard drive?

[MarkJenner]

Put it this way, I have a laptop with built in (i.e rubbish) Intel HD Graphics and 6GB DDR3 memory, and i'm able to run all of the programs listed above, and Batman: Arkham City in the background lol

[zed]

one of these will do you and some http://amzn.to/tqJuEA

add a couple of monitors and you're still cheaper than the one you've quoted.


and stick an SSD in as well to hold your program files.

This post has been edited by zed: 01 January 2012 - 02:51 PM

[Renaissance-Design]

If you're going to RAID your disks, use RAID 1 rather than 0 - that'll safeguard your data against physical disk failure. For performance I'd suggest dropping a bit of processor speed in favour of booting from a SSD - cream of the crop is the OCZ Vertex 3. You only need 120GB or so, because your data will be on the mirrored disks.

Your most important component for design is a good screen, check reviews and get the best one you can afford - an IPS panel will be much better than a TN.

This post has been edited by Renaissance-Design: 01 January 2012 - 08:27 PM

[CityCM]

Thought I might as well chip in...

If you're intent on building a new PC yourself, go down the SKT1155 i5 route. There's virtually no noticable difference between the i5 2500K and the i7 2600K apart from the huge jump in price.

As for the rest of it, forget about buying 2 x 500GB hard drives. For about the same sort of money you could buy a 64GB SSD for Windows / Apps and a 1TB SATA Drive for all your documents and this configuration would be a huge performance boost to the PC.

Also, if you're going to buy 12GB Ram, you might as well buy 16GB as it's literally pennies difference.

Having said that, unless you've gone ridiculously OTT and gone for a £300+ motherboard, etc, I fail big time to see how that lot's costing you £2060. For that setup (including a decent motherboard, case and power supply and 16GB DDR3 1600MHz Ram and 64GB SSD) I managed to get down to £1467 delivered).