- Jan 19, 2017
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Hello there!
I've been using the same PC for over 10 years now and we've chugged along just fine but I've found myself in a position where I have the money now to replace 'Old Faithful' and XP :S
I'm terribly concerned about making bad decisions in this regard, which has left me making no decision. Unfortunately, I really have no idea what I'm doing as I'm 10 years behind the technology.
I'm willing to spend up to £500 but would rather not have to go that high.
Anyway, what I'm looking for from the machine is the ability to get much more into music recording/production, some video editing, and it would be great to play 'newer' computer games but I don't need to be able to play upcoming releases at max functionality (I've got 10 years of games to catch up on, right?)
I would hugely appreciate someone who knows their butt from their ulna to take a look here and let me know if I'm on the right track or throwing precious pennies out the window? Thanks verrrry much for any help/for reading my blabbering on.
I was thinking something like this, but again I have no idea if it'll be any good - I'm planning on buying Win7 from Amazon as from shopping around it to be ridiculously cheaper than getting it with PC - I also have a monitor/keyboard/mouse)
https://www.novatech.co.uk/pc/range/novatechblacknti260.html
Ideally I'd prefer to do the 'custom build' with somewhere like PCSpecialist, but it's quite terrifying and I don't want to screw it up. I'd looked at something like this:
Case -PCS ENIGMA 6003B BLACK CASE
Processor (CPU) -Intel® Core™i3 Dual Core Processor i3-6100 (3.70GHz) 3MB Cache - SPECIAL!!
Motherboard - ASUS® H110M-R: Micro-ATX, DDR4, LG1151, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs
Memory (RAM) - 8GB Kingston DUAL DDR4 2133MHz (2 x 4GB)
Graphics Card -1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GT 730 - DVI, HDMI, VGA
1st Hard Disk - 500GB SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 16MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive - NOT REQUIRED
Power Supply - CORSAIR 450W VS SERIES™ VS-450 POWER SUPPLY
Power Cable - 1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling - Super Quiet Titan DragonFly Heatpipe Intel CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste - STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card - ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking - WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD
USB Options - MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
£411.00 inc VAT and Delivery
Thanks again to anyone who read all of this/helps me out! x
Edit - Just realised the Amazon deal on Win 7 has passed, doh! Also looking at this with Win 7 included http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/fujitsu-esprimo-p556-core-i3-6100-4gb-500gb-dvd-sm-win10p-win7p-vfyp0556p735ogb/version.asp
I've been using the same PC for over 10 years now and we've chugged along just fine but I've found myself in a position where I have the money now to replace 'Old Faithful' and XP :S
I'm terribly concerned about making bad decisions in this regard, which has left me making no decision. Unfortunately, I really have no idea what I'm doing as I'm 10 years behind the technology.
I'm willing to spend up to £500 but would rather not have to go that high.
Anyway, what I'm looking for from the machine is the ability to get much more into music recording/production, some video editing, and it would be great to play 'newer' computer games but I don't need to be able to play upcoming releases at max functionality (I've got 10 years of games to catch up on, right?)
I would hugely appreciate someone who knows their butt from their ulna to take a look here and let me know if I'm on the right track or throwing precious pennies out the window? Thanks verrrry much for any help/for reading my blabbering on.
I was thinking something like this, but again I have no idea if it'll be any good - I'm planning on buying Win7 from Amazon as from shopping around it to be ridiculously cheaper than getting it with PC - I also have a monitor/keyboard/mouse)
https://www.novatech.co.uk/pc/range/novatechblacknti260.html
Ideally I'd prefer to do the 'custom build' with somewhere like PCSpecialist, but it's quite terrifying and I don't want to screw it up. I'd looked at something like this:
Case -PCS ENIGMA 6003B BLACK CASE
Processor (CPU) -Intel® Core™i3 Dual Core Processor i3-6100 (3.70GHz) 3MB Cache - SPECIAL!!
Motherboard - ASUS® H110M-R: Micro-ATX, DDR4, LG1151, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs
Memory (RAM) - 8GB Kingston DUAL DDR4 2133MHz (2 x 4GB)
Graphics Card -1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GT 730 - DVI, HDMI, VGA
1st Hard Disk - 500GB SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 16MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive - NOT REQUIRED
Power Supply - CORSAIR 450W VS SERIES™ VS-450 POWER SUPPLY
Power Cable - 1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling - Super Quiet Titan DragonFly Heatpipe Intel CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste - STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card - ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking - WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD
USB Options - MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
£411.00 inc VAT and Delivery
Thanks again to anyone who read all of this/helps me out! x
Edit - Just realised the Amazon deal on Win 7 has passed, doh! Also looking at this with Win 7 included http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/fujitsu-esprimo-p556-core-i3-6100-4gb-500gb-dvd-sm-win10p-win7p-vfyp0556p735ogb/version.asp
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