March 15, 201115 yr I have a budget of £500 for a new desktop PC I don't play games I do watch movies and stuff I do a little light video editing It's mostly going to get used for Photoshop/illustrator and web design stuff. I have a good keyboard and mouse already It needs to work with multiple monitors, I have 2 but wouldn't mind 3 what would you get
March 15, 201115 yr Are you lookign to buy one or build one? If building i can sort out a good spec for you
March 17, 201115 yr Build or buy... What ever gets me something good What did you think of the system on the link I provided?
March 17, 201115 yr Author Sorry! looks like a good system but it only has 1 VGA output - I need a DVI/vga plus a HDMI at least for my monitors :/ Suppose i could get it and get a different graphics card and still be under £500 though Looks like a smart system though, very sleek
March 17, 201115 yr You can customise a desktop at Dell http://www.dell.com/uk/p/desktop-deals.aspx?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn It's worth a look just to see what you can get for various permutations of specification.
March 17, 201115 yr A build. This was assuming the £500 didn't include an O/S or monitor. If it does that would change things of course. CPU - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/251595 MOBO - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/252615 GPU - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/198817 RAM - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/173122 CASE - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/143854 HDD - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/193712 PSU - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/190751 DVD - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/250228 Total (with 5 day free shipping) - £491.36 This is a powerful quad core Sandy Bridge setup, featuring a USB 3.0 and SATA3 motherboard, with a fast 1TB HDD and a low profile silent GPU, just enough to give you the extra outputs and help out with graphical output, but it's no money wasting gaming GPU. Be aware of the Sandy Bridge mobo issue though, as mentioned on the mobo description. It's not a massive problem as long as you don't use those SATA ports and you will be able to get a replacement mobo without the problem when they're available at no extra charge. Edited March 17, 201115 yr by Killer
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