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Advice For Building Low Budget Office PC - Mainly Web Use & Photoshop - Multi Tab Pages

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September 29, 2014 2:20:59 AM

Hi all from Turkey.

I still use AMD 64 3200 with on board graphics and 1 gb ddr 1 ram in our office. It mostly drives me crazy so I decided to build a new pc for me

What i mainly use it for is;

- Dealing with customer e-mails, at least 7-8 web page tabs are always open.
- Working on excel, word; generally preparing price offers with visuals on excel and converting to PDF
- Drawing simple 2D artworks on Photoshop like below (Meanwhile page tabs are still open while using photoshop or office )
http://i.hizliresim.com/lzj8np.png
I don't have a high budget. Do you think should i prefer an gpu integrated cpu ? Cpu's in my mind are FX 6300, A10 6800K, i5 4460 but you can advice another one of course.

For instance, how about this configuration ?
http://i.hizliresim.com/VyaG4q.png

It costs about 320 GBP / 405 Euro

Waiting your suggestions.

Thank you in advance

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September 29, 2014 2:49:58 AM

UnbreakMyHeart said:
Hi all from Turkey.

I still use AMD 64 3200 with on board graphics and 1 gb ddr 1 ram in our office. It mostly drives me crazy so I decided to build a new pc for me

What i mainly use it for is;

- Dealing with customer e-mails, at least 7-8 web page tabs are always open.
- Working on excel, word; generally preparing price offers with visuals on excel and converting to PDF
- Drawing simple 2D artworks on Photoshop like below (Meanwhile page tabs are still open while using photoshop or office )
http://i.hizliresim.com/lzj8np.png
I don't have a high budget. Do you think should i prefer an gpu integrated cpu ? Cpu's in my mind are FX 6300, A10 6800K, i5 4460 but you can advice another one of course.

For instance, how about this configuration ?
http://i.hizliresim.com/VyaG4q.png

It costs about 320 GBP / 405 Euro

Waiting your suggestions.

Thank you in advance

Hello,

the configuration you linked seems OK for your needs. However I would recommend you to get a mechanical HDD (1TB will be enough) to store large files and to increase the RAM from 4GB to 8GB.
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September 29, 2014 3:58:17 AM

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Hello,

the configuration you linked seems OK for your needs. However I would recommend you to get a mechanical HDD (1TB will be enough) to store large files and to increase the RAM from 4GB to 8GB.
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Hi holyprof,

Thank you for your contribution. I prefer ssd to run the pc faster i'll swap the old hdd to the new configuration.

Evaluating your ram increasing advice, so should i buy single slot 8 gb or dual slot 4g ( 4x2 gb) ?
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October 2, 2014 5:51:59 AM

I think he was suggesting the 1TB HDD in addition to the SSD, as a storage drive.

Since you'll be using Photoshop, I would suggest a small GPU (GT 740, R7 250) just to improve photoshop
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October 4, 2014 3:43:20 AM

Either 2x4 GB or 1x8 GB will work, and have their distinct advantages. Still i would prefer 1x8 GB (cheaper and lets you buy a second 8GB memory module later).
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October 15, 2014 5:03:23 AM

Thank you all. I just bought the above configuration with 1x4 gb ram :) 
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