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25-09-15, 09:36 PM | #21 |
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Re: iMac
These 2 look to be sufficient:
http://www.chillblast.com/Chillblast...-Asgard-2.html http://www.chillblast.com/Chillblast...kylake-PC.html Remember if you are having a 4K monitor you want the PC/Graphics card to be able to transmit 4K resolution Last edited by DJ123; 25-09-15 at 09:40 PM. |
25-09-15, 09:40 PM | #22 |
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Build the PC yourself, that way you can make sure all the components are exactly what you want.
Are you going to be using it for games or just photo editing? Would have thought a decent on board GPU would be okay for that?
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25-09-15, 10:08 PM | #23 |
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I'd also have second thoughts on the monitor.
Something like - http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Monit...roductId=64745 is a bit more expensive but a far superior quality if display (you are going to be doing image processing on it after all) just jeep it out of direct sunlight onto the screen |
25-09-15, 10:16 PM | #24 |
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It's very easy to pick up a mediocre PC that does a little of everything but not much of what you want.
The one you linked has a retail component value of about £400, over half of that is the CPU, although the motherboard is really poor. If you are looking for a PC that does fairly decent image processing without going down the Quaddro route you should be looking to lay out at least £650 in retail components and build it yourself (Win 7 you can pick up for about 30 to 40 quid online for an OEM copy) plus the monitor. Photo editing software - Photoshop - works with CUDA cores so the inboard graphics will struggle, adding an NVIDIA GTX 960 or better will help (£150 ish and up) or similar but i loathe AMD cards so won't mention them as i hate having a 200W heater under the desk. Half the fun is picking what you WANT then the horror of having to scale back the £4,000 monster you just specced out) |
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I've just bought this monitor and asked a mate to build me a PC. Intel i7 4th gen 2Gb graphics card 4K compatible 1 or 2 Tb HDD 16Gb DDR3 ram and a decent power supply and case and mother board.
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03-10-15, 05:33 PM | #26 |
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03-10-15, 07:26 PM | #27 |
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03-10-15, 08:03 PM | #28 |
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The 5.5" drive
sent with all the fury of a clogged drain!!
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I'd recomend you also add one of these as a boot drive, I stuck one in my laptop and it transformed it
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Inte...+samsung&psc=1
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I'd agree with the SSD for the OS.
You don't need one with huge memory, but the speed they work at is awesome. I have one in an old PC that runs our media centre, streaming DVD quality films to the TV, cinema room and various tablets. Startup time is about 25 seconds, every button click gives an instant response. Have fun! Pete
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