• £700(ish) budget for a solid workstation, not sure where to start.
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I'm really out of touch with hardware these days, I built my first and only PC about 8 years ago and have upgraded it a couple of times since. However, I really need a new rig for work. I mostly do 3D animation and motion graphics work, as well as some heavy photography and video editing. But I'd like to run games pretty well too. I'm not 100% sure if I should do a custom build myself, or just create a custom build online and have it built there and sent to me. I dont know if I can be bothered with the hassle of building it at home. Also, I still have my old GTX 480 graphics card which I might keep if the budget is stretched, as I'm looking to get at least 16GB of RAM, but with room for expansion to 32GB in the future if its too expensive now. It's mostly the processor I need, my ancient quad core just cant handle anything these days, and bottlenecks the entire system. I think the GFX card can still run most games. I also have a 120GB SSD I was planning on using as a boot disk and for applications. But I'll probably need a couple of TB just for working files. I know this isnt much to go on, but I seriously dont have a clue. I'd really appreciate any advice or help.
Something like this perhaps? [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/CWP9wHf.png[/IMG] [url]http://www.ebuyer.com/lists/list/321337[/url] Unfortunately I don't know a whole lot about the new Haswell processors/motherboards and the graphics card isn't that much of an upgrade.
If I were you, I would get a really nice powersupply, case, cpu, motherboard, ram, hdd, and then keep the 480 for a while, or even get a second one for cheap. You have an SSD too, so that will be great. My recommendation; i7 4770k Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z87 Intel Z87 16gb of decent 1600mHz RAM Nice case of your choice Silverstone Strider Gold Series - 850 Watt [url]http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-362-SV&groupid=701&catid=123[/url]
[url]http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/3g3NH[/url] There's no GPU, because there's no way to fit a 770 at this budget and the 760 isn't worth the price compared to your current GPU. The 4770K is perfect for lots of video editing, a lot better than the 4670K. There's lots of storage, an alright case, and 16GB RAM with possibility for 32GB. It's a tiny bit above budget, but you can easily remove the DVD drive and use an old one, or remove one of the harddrives outright.
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