Is This a Good PC for the Price?

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#1 joe8979
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I am looking for a good gaming PC and something to run programs such as illustrator and photshop CS3 at the same time, this is because I am doing graphic design at college and I am looking to go to university doing a similar thing.

My budget will be around £1200 mark, I have found a PC that looks quite good to me, but I dont know alot about hardware so I thought it would be a good idea to ask you on here.

Here is the PC I found : http://www.dinopc.com/shop/pc/22-103-SLI-Gaming-PC-Intel-Core-2-Quad-Q9550-4GB-RAM-1TB-HD-GTX-260-Blu-Ray-24-94p410.htm

CPU: Intel® Core 2 Quad Q9550Motherboard: Asus P5N-D (nForce 750i chipset, SLI)Memory: 4.0GB Corsair DDR2 800mhz XMS2 (2x 2GB)Hard Drives: 1TB S-ATAII 3.0Gb/sOptical Drive: 5x Blu-Ray ROM S-ATA DVD±RWGraphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 896MBSound card: Onboard 7.1 AudioOperating System: No Operating System - I will install my ownPeripherals: Logitech Wireless keyboard and laser mouseMonitors: 24" Asus MK241H Widescreen LCDPSU: 580W Hiper Type-M SilentCase: Antec Nine HundredWarranty: 3 Year Bronze Warranty

I do have to option to customize it aswell, there is no real choice on the graphics card bit, i can have to the above or have it in SLI x2 but this would go over my budget.

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#2 joe8979
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Also , would it be better to get a Mac for what im doing?
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#3 joe8979
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#4 DeltaCobra
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Yeah its an awesome PC for sure. I must say though, you should consider the Dell's/ For the same money you can get similar specs bar the GFX card - but with a future proof power supply of 750 or even the 1000w. Very important for future GFX SLI.

Good luck and nice chice though.

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#5 spierdalaj666
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I don't think that a mac is better to be honest. I use photoshop constantly on my pc and with my dual core processor (and probably raptor HDD as well), it works like a charm.

As for the price, given that this is in pounds and that you guys get raped over there in terms of prices, i'd say that it's a very good buy. Although for that price, i'd expect them to throw in a slightly better graphics card.

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#6 Daytona_178
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Thats terrible for the money your paying! a 260GTX is not acceptable for that kinda money!
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#7 temega
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I'm putting an pc together, see specs here.

I'm probably changing the motherboard but the rest of the hardware is all top notch and the final price is just around £1120. You will have to put it together your self thoough. Otherwise, they got very nice pre built pc on overclockers.co.uk.

Good luck.

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#8 temega
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I got a Mac Book pro atm and using pc at work as a web developer so I do lots of coding and quite some photoshopping as well.

OSX has it good and bad sides. The os makes you more productive but ironically I'm so fed up with the mouse acceleration, it so terrible compared to windows. I've tried all kinds of sensitivity settings and even software that alows you to tweak all kinds of mouse setting but I could never get it to work the same as on windows. In photoshop you got lots of small buttons and having to be carefull trying to click each of them on a mac is a pain. Also, photoshop is a bit less responsive on the Mac than on the PC. I very often use both version on the same day so I know.

Anyways, as you can see from my previous post, I'm buying a PC now and thought why not spend some extra Pounds and make it a nice gaming pc as well :)

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#9 Daytona_178
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I'm putting an pc together, see specs here.

I'm probably changing the motherboard but the rest of the hardware is all top notch and the final price is just around £1120. You will have to put it together your self thoough. Otherwise, they got very nice pre built pc on overclockers.co.uk.

Good luck.

temega

Just to let you know 64Bit XP has very bad driver support, if you want 64Bit then you pretty much need Vista!

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#10 temega
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I need 64 bit as I'm having 4gb ram + 2 gb from my graphics card and a 32bit xp will only support a total of 4gb ram. But no, I don't really wan't to go for Vista, maybe later but atm I really want to stick to xp.
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#11 Daytona_178
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I need 64 bit as I'm having 4gb ram + 2 gb from my graphics card and a 32bit xp will only support a total of 4gb ram. But no, I don't really wan't to go for Vista, maybe later but atm I really want to stick to xp.temega

OK, but be prepared for LOTS of software not to work!

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#12 temega
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Can you give an example? For as far as i know software support is good now, used to be bad when it was just released. And you still run 32 bit software on it.
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#13 3ofClubs
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I prefer gamespot.
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#14 3ofClubs
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A Mistake....

i prefer mac..