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Right.
Laptops gone the way of terminal blue screen of death, and has tbh appeared to have been powered by gerbils for a while.
Im thinking of building / buying a desktop to replace it.
I do a fair amount of photo editing, more dealing with large volumes of photos than high usage Photoshopping etc.
I wouldn't mind being able to play some of these new fangled 1st person shootems like COD etc.
Im mostly baffeled as thew last time i built a PC was about 2000, when my 1GHz athalon with 512mb ram, a 40gig HD and a Geforce 2 was as good as it got.
Now we have SLI/Crossfire instead of AGP and 47core processors im more than a little baffled.
Any one point my in the direction of a reasonable spec (between the 500-750mark) and what i should be looking at? I keep looking at the today only deals on scan (these always used to be good?) but i don't really want to over / under power the machine or build something that don't do what i want.
Failing that and idiots guide to the world of modern computing would help...
I'm no expert but routing around with specs and I found this which arrives tomorrow along with a 22" screen ;o)
2 processors, both dual core. About 4gb of memory, 1000gb drive and a dx 10 geforce or quadro card.
Last time this kind of question came up someone posted a link to a very useful page at Bit-tech - they do a monthly roundup of what components are good at different price points. When I get round to building my new system it looks like it'll come in very handy.
Yep, that's the sod officer!
That page there cost me over £600. 😳
Tis a very good guide to the best bang for the buck.