Budget photo editing build under £250

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Im looking to build a budget PC for editing photos and listening to music whilst doing that. It must run PS, Elements 14, Serif Affinity 1.4, and Lightroom smoothly and quickly. It must have wifi. It must be reliable. It does not need to play games.
I would like it to be easily upgradeable.
The ability to edit video would be a bonus but not a necessity.

I am a complete novice so perhaps i am dreaming but i guess on such a tight budget a self build is the way to go.

Any help or advice appreciated

Cheers
 
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Nuckles_56
I know the i3 isn't a a dual core with hyperthreading (so windows sees it as a quad core) but it is still a very good choice for lower budget builds. If you wish, I can move up to an i5 which is a true quadcore, but is a significant increase in price.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor (£97.26 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: ASRock H110M-HDV Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£44.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£49.78 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Crucial BX100 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£59.99 @ Novatech)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB...
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I would say that your best hope is to go looking for secondhand PCs which still work, they will probably be better than anything we can put together build wise for £250
This is as good as I believe you can build for around £250 assuming you don't need windows, a monitor or keyboard/mouse
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G4400 3.3GHz Dual-Core Processor (£47.49 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: ASRock H110M-HDV Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£44.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£23.96 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.95 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI Radeon R7 250 1GB Video Card (£59.96 @ CCL Computers)
Case: Zalman ZM-T4 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£13.98 @ Ebuyer)
Power Supply: XFX TS 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£29.99 @ Novatech)
Total: £260.32
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-06 08:05 BST+0100

EDIT: this will give it WiFi as well http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/edimax-wireless-network-card-ew7811un
 
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Thats a shame i found some fast looking builds in dollars but when i converted them to UK merchants the prices rocketed!

I suppose thats the price we pay for free healthcare and sensible gun laws ;)

Are there any UK merchants that you could recommend for 2nd hand PC's ?

Thanks for your answer
 
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I assume something like this is made from rubbish components?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AMD-A10-7850K-Quad-Core-4-00GHz-1TB-16GB-Radeon-R7-Gaming-WINDOWS-7-/291745003757?hash=item43ed5b78ed:g:jk8AAOSwlfxXGeW~
 
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I thought for photoshop a processor would need at least 4 cores for multitasking and an ssd as there are problems running the application and windows from the same hdd? Like i said im a novice. Just going on what ive read.
 
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Photoshop will run better on a quad core processor but it will still run on a dual core. It will only have problems running from the same hard drive as windows when you deal with massive files (source: I've dealt with 1.5GB images before on a 5400RPM laptop hard drive)
 
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I know the i3 isn't a a dual core with hyperthreading (so windows sees it as a quad core) but it is still a very good choice for lower budget builds. If you wish, I can move up to an i5 which is a true quadcore, but is a significant increase in price.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor (£97.26 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: ASRock H110M-HDV Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£44.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£49.78 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Crucial BX100 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£59.99 @ Novatech)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£39.95 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Palit GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB StormX OC Video Card (£85.98 @ Aria PC)
Case: Zalman ZM-T4 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£13.98 @ Ebuyer)
Power Supply: XFX TS 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£29.99 @ Novatech)
Total: £421.92
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-06 13:50 BST+0100
 
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