What pc should i get?

Rusted Faith says:

"I'm a graphic designer...with an interest in 3D. I am thinking of the following specs: Processor(CPU):AMD ATHLON™ 64 X2 6000+ (3.0GHz) 2 x 1MB L2 Cache (Socket AM2) Memory (RAM):2048 MB CORSAIR DDR2 667MHz - LIFETIME WARRANTY! (2x1GB) Motherboard: ASUS® M2N: DUAL DDR II, S-ATA, x16 VGA, 3 PCI Operating System: WINDOWS® VISTA Home Premium (inc Genuine CD & License) (£59) USB Options: 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS (4 REAR + 2 FRONT) AS STANDARD Hard Disk: 320GB SERIAL ATA II HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (7200rpm) CD/DVD Drive: 20x DVD±RW/RAM/Dual Layer + Lightscribe (48 x CD-RW) (£16) Graphics Card: 320MB GEFORCE 8800GTS PCI Express + DVI + TV-OUT Sound Card: 6 Channel Realtek ALC660 High Definition Audio (Onboard) Network Facilities: ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT Case: Stylish Silver/Black Sigma case + 2 front USB Power Supply & Case Cooling :500W (Peak) Quiet Dual Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£25) Processor Cooling: SUPER QUIET 22 dBA AMD CPU COOLER (£14) for £645 wondered what you think...i obviously want to play video games on it too."

2048 mb RAM is not alot honestly. Try those new terrabyte computers yes I know they cost crap load.

I'm a graphic designer...with an interest in 3D. I am thinking of the following specs:

Processor(CPU):AMD ATHLON™ 64 X2 6000+ (3.0GHz) 2 x 1MB L2 Cache (Socket AM2)

Memory (RAM):2048 MB CORSAIR DDR2 667MHz - LIFETIME WARRANTY! (2x1GB)

Motherboard: ASUS® M2N: DUAL DDR II, S-ATA, x16 VGA, 3 PCI

Operating System: WINDOWS® VISTA Home Premium (inc Genuine CD & License) (£59)

USB Options: 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS (4 REAR + 2 FRONT) AS STANDARD

Hard Disk: 320GB SERIAL ATA II HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (7200rpm)

CD/DVD Drive: 20x DVD±RW/RAM/Dual Layer + Lightscribe (48 x CD-RW) (£16)

Graphics Card: 320MB GEFORCE 8800GTS PCI Express + DVI + TV-OUT

Sound Card: 6 Channel Realtek ALC660 High Definition Audio (Onboard)

Network Facilities: ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT

Case: Stylish Silver/Black Sigma case + 2 front USB

Power Supply & Case Cooling :500W (Peak) Quiet Dual Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£25)

Processor Cooling: SUPER QUIET 22 dBA AMD CPU COOLER (£14)

for £645

wondered what you think...i obviously want to play video games on it too.

My thoughts... warning i'm a techie so i go for really, really high spec stuff...

firstly upgrade your RAM... if your wanting 3D imaging you want 4GB RAM minumum, i'm on 8GB

motherboards good

operating system, go for Vista Ultimate... it's worth that bit extra... also, if your running Vista you definitely want more than 2GB RAM

Motherboard - I can't stress this enough... GET SLI COMPATIBLE

Hard Drive - 320GB? bit small, but i suppose you can use externals if you need it... personally i'd go for 500GB upwards, but i'm on TB now...

get rid of Lightscribe on the DVD drive, it's expensive and not that useful...

Graphics card... if your using image editing you want the best... GForce 7900GT 1GB onboard dedicated graphics memory... SLI

networking... meh lol

case... meh

power supply - Danger will robinson, Danger!!! you want at least 650, possibly more for todays high spec stuff

processor cooling - looks good, but if your really after silent running go for a liquid coolant system

M

There are 1,000 gigabyte RAM computers but they cost so much. You have to be filthy stikin rich to get one.

My laptop has 8gb too. Yet yours is a desktop? I thought all desktops were better than laptops.

just to give you an idea of what my PC looks like so you know i know what i'm talking about...

M

or is that how much you have to spare? I only have 6gb or 10gb with a memory jump card thingy to spare.

Methos says:

"Dreadnaught says:

"There are 1,000 gigabyte RAM computers but they cost so much. You have to be filthy stikin rich to get one."

are you on crack? there's no such this as a terabite ram computer, not yet anyway... the closest you can come is 12GB of ram currently M"

Supercomputers have that level of RAM. But that's why they're called super.

Dreadnaught says:

"There are 1,000 gigabyte RAM computers but they cost so much. You have to be filthy stikin rich to get one."

are you on crack?

there's no such this as a terabite ram computer, not yet anyway...

the closest you can come is 12GB of ram currently

M

Dreadnaught says:

"My laptop has 8gb too. Yet yours is a desktop? I thought all desktops were better than laptops."

your laptop has 8GB of ram?

i'm dubious about that...

what make and model is it?

M

Dreadnaught says:

"or is that how much you have to spare? I only have 6gb or 10gb with a memory jump card thingy to spare."

thats not RAM lol

M

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Methos says:

"Dreadnaught says:

"Methos says:

"Dreadnaught says:

"There are 1,000 gigabyte RAM computers but they cost so much. You have to be filthy stikin rich to get one."

are you on crack? there's no such this as a terabite ram computer, not yet anyway... the closest you can come is 12GB of ram currently M"

Supercomputers have that level of RAM. But that's why they're called super."

the largest computer in the world, current held at NASA (Their CRAY system) currently uses 48GB of RAM, and that isn't one computer, that is a CRAY system... Binary computers cannot hold that much RAM currently M"

I think I confused kernal memory for ram memory.

Dreadnaught says:

"Methos says:

"Dreadnaught says:

"There are 1,000 gigabyte RAM computers but they cost so much. You have to be filthy stikin rich to get one."

are you on crack? there's no such this as a terabite ram computer, not yet anyway... the closest you can come is 12GB of ram currently M"

Supercomputers have that level of RAM. But that's why they're called super."

the largest computer in the world, current held at NASA (Their CRAY system) currently uses 48GB of RAM, and that isn't one computer, that is a CRAY system...

Binary computers cannot hold that much RAM currently

M

either way... we are only just starting to go into Terrabytes in Hard Drive storage, it'll be a long time until we see Terrabyte RAM

the only way to get that much RAM is to use NODES like CRAY systems do, Binary computers cant physically hold that much RAM

M

Methos says:

"either way... we are only just starting to go into Terrabytes in Hard Drive storage, it'll be a long time until we see Terrabyte RAM the only way to get that much RAM is to use NODES like CRAY systems do, Binary computers cant physically hold that much RAM M"

Maybe Quantum computers can. Though I wonder how having data bieng both a 1 and a 0 at the same time's going to help.

And possibly the totaly unusual DNA computers. Which I bet will lead to people's personalities and memories bieng downloaded into a computer. Thus cheating death.

Dreadnaught says:

"Methos says:

"either way... we are only just starting to go into Terrabytes in Hard Drive storage, it'll be a long time until we see Terrabyte RAM the only way to get that much RAM is to use NODES like CRAY systems do, Binary computers cant physically hold that much RAM M"

Maybe Quantum computers can. Though I wonder how having data bieng both a 1 and a 0 at the same time's going to help. "

Quantum computing is a long way off as well... yes, being able to have 1, 0 and 1 & 0 is a major bonus for speed, but that isn't going to do much for the RAM, only the processing speed.

at the moment we are stuck because of the physical limitation of RAM chips

M

i recomend getting one with a screen, that always helps in the process

Spectrum says:

"i recomend getting one with a screen, that always helps in the process"

OMG LOL!

Suddenly my computer feels very inferior.... I'm working with 512MB of RAM and a 60GB Harddrive. I think I'm due an upgrade.

Cosmic Sentinel says:

"Suddenly my computer feels very inferior.... I'm working with 512MB of RAM and a 60GB Harddrive. I think I'm due an upgrade."

definitely lol

60GB... god, my music video's folder is nearly triple that lol

M

I had music videos on my computer, but deleted them as space became an issue. Still, I have about 16GB free. A new computer is definitely on my todo list.

meh, i've got plenty of space lol

that just my "Music Videos", not counting MP3 folder, TV Shows Folder, Movies Folder, Program Files, Documents and pictures lol

M

Honestly, the best option for a graphic designer is a mac.

And this is coming from a PC user.

But diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks.

thanks ppl...greatly appreciate the advice. Mind i'm gonna try and keep cost down a tiny bit...seeing as i can't afford a top spec computer maybe mid-range high spec...or value for buck.....