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carlosthejack...
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PostPosted: 09:30 - 22 Sep 2010    Post subject: New PC. Recommendations please. Reply with quote

I'm currently using future son-in-laws machine, but as he and no.1 daughter are moving out soon, machine will be going with him, so I'll be needing another PC.

Requirements are:
Dual monitor output (DVI)
1TB HDD
Fast enough for quality and rapid photoshopping/photo processing
Cheap (ish)

I'm considering this: https://www.ebuyer.com/product/200544

Opinions please? Anyone recommend any other suppliers that they've used?
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PostPosted: 13:43 - 22 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

I would recommend Scan. I've used them before, both for parts and for pre-built systems. Take a look at this one:

https://3xs.scan.co.uk/ShowSystem.asp?SystemID=1162

Looks to be the sort of thing that you are after....
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PostPosted: 21:23 - 24 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

Another vote for Scan here, although there order time is about 3 weeks at the moment as they're really busy.
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PostPosted: 19:11 - 29 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'de recommend building one yourself. cheaper, and you learn a lot, and exactly how you want it!
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PostPosted: 19:37 - 29 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've ran Photoshop for quite a few years now on a low endish system, it's always ran flawlessly & that's with very high quality photos, never any lag/slow downs.

You could get by with a system less then half that price.

So don't spend more then you have to.
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PostPosted: 22:32 - 29 Sep 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

i agree on building a system.
you could build yourself a 6 core AMD for cheaper than that. don't really know that much about photoshop, but at a guess, i am assuming that lots of RAM would be useful as would a processor with a higher core count (i do at least know that photoshop supports multi-cores). i would also be temped to recommend a solid state hard drive, but these are quite expensive, but they do make a huge difference.
tbh my house mate runs photoshop all the time on a 3+yr old mac book.
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PostPosted: 20:40 - 02 Oct 2010    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've built my own in the past, but I can't seem to source components for the spec I want to make it as cheap as something I can get ready built...I'd much rather buy from an independent as I always feel they've been built with more care and have been appropriately tested/set-up, as against big name systems, but I've been running a (borrowed) Acer system for about 6 months and I'm very impressed with it...
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