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2013-03-07, 21:15 | #1 | |
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Getting ready for my April PC Build
As some of you may know i've been "stuck" with an iMac for 2 years now.
As my production needs get bigger the machine simply cannot contain the workload, so i am looking to build a new PC rather than buying the latest ?2,000 Mac. I can build a more powerful PC for ?700 than my current "powerful iMac". It will be used for video and music production, as well as modeling etc. Not to mention games If anyone can point me to a great UK website for building custom desktops i would be forever grateful! But this is what I had in mind so far, considering i havent really built a PC in 8 years I have no idea what is good or bad anymore (Macs are incredibly boring). Quote:
Is it any good? Graphic card recommendations? | |
2013-03-07, 22:48 | #2 |
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Re: Getting ready for my April PC Build
I don't know what music production you use, but you may want to consider some advanced sound card for more inputs , although I can assume you have some kind of board that handles that?
Also I found Scan good for sending parts and customer service, and they have a PC building arm "3XS", so yeah : Custom PCs built by the award winning team - Scan 3xs Systems (relatively good prices too!) |
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Last edited by Pedz; 2013-03-07 at 23:28..
Reason: EDIT: never mind, reread and found the 700 price range :)
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2013-03-07, 23:08 | #3 |
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Re: Getting ready for my April PC Build
If want to put the money, suggest a little more powerful GPU, like a 660ti or an AMD 7870.
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2013-03-08, 06:37 | #4 |
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Re: Getting ready for my April PC Build
You need to do more research into the GTX 600 series of cards,
I'm not sure what type of video work you do, there is some controversy over the different CUDA cores in the 600 series, compared to the GTX 570 and 580. The GTX 650 is going to drive you nuts if you do heavy rendering or whatever, save money longer to at least get the 660 or 570. MPE Gain - PPBM5 Unless you have a server, NAS or SCSI blade or something, I'd suggest getting a full tower case now, so you can add in terabyte drive RAID 10, down the road. |
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2013-03-08, 23:14 | #5 | |||
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Re: Getting ready for my April PC Build
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Thanks for the advice, i will post updates + pictures of the build in April Looking forward to rejoining the PC master race | |||
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