PC Parts... Screech/Chandler/Lee or any of the part specialists - i need some advice I'm guessing the best place to get my bits is probably still overclockers but my bro-in-law needs an upgrade - but i don't need a full setup, i need : Motherboard Processor Memory for about £200 max. It's not going to be used as a gaming machine, more photoshop/video editing. I've got a decent spare OCZ Tempest fan+heatsink but it looks like it may only support P4-478 or P4-775 processors - so i may need that as well. EDIT : Looks like the cooler+heatsink might be ok Case and PSU are sorted Ideas?
if not planning on overclocking, an amd chip would be a better option £52.86 - Asus M3A AMD 770 (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £65.79 - AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6000+ 3.00GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail £32.89 - GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Black Dragon DDR2 Dual Channel Kit 150 quid ish - leaving 50 quid for double the ram if running vista, or a big heatsink and fan if thats your thing - the stock fan is not bad at all
much more bang for buck with amd - faster at stock and much cheaper if you plan on overclocking, intel does that better than the current amd chips
intels are better and stuff like video encoding and photoshop rendering. you can get some overclockers 2gig 800mhz dual channel for about 33 aswell
what he said although i dont think photoshop is the main concern for the system - more the video editing, and i've got that very same AMD chip in my current desktop machine and it's spot on at handling huge vector files in Illustrator that made my 1.8 Intel Dual Core fall over and have an asthma attack. definately worth doubling the memory too, just because you'll end up putting vista on *cringe* and you'll definately need it then *shakes fist at vista*
