Could I have done better?

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So we recently quoted a friend a new Pc, it will be used purely for office, email, internet, photoshop.

This is what I came up with:

Case: R274.00
Gigabyte X8 ATX Chassis (requested by my friend)

PSU: R269.00
Thermaltake LitePower, 450w, ATX 12V V2.3, active PFC, dual +12v

Motherboard: R670.00
MSI Intel PH61A-P35B3 H61 Chipset

CPU: R608.00
Intel G630 Pentium - 2.70GHz

Ram: R155.00x2=R310.00
Corsair DESKTOP MEMORY 2GB DDR3 1333 Memory Latency 5 5 5 18

SSD: R713.00
OCZ 60GB Agility 3 Series SATA III 2.5" SSD

HDD: R718.00
Western Digital CAVIAR Blue 32 500GB, 7200 RPM, 32 MB Cache

DVD-ROM: R150.00
LG 24X DVD RW Super-Multi DVD Drive


Subtotal: R3,712.00
Shipping Options (Door to Door 1-4 Working Days - Durban/Amanzimtoti/Ballito Area): R45.00
Total: R3,757.00

Could I have done any better? ...or worse?
 
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R 3,599.00

http://www.evetech.co.za/Computer-systems/amd-quad-core-custom-built-desktop-computer-29.aspx

AMD FX™ 4100 (3.6GHz, 8M Cache, 4x Cores, 3.8GHz Turbo) Quad Core CPU
MSI 880G Chipset AM3+ AMD Motherboard
AMD Radeon™ HD4250 Share Up to 512MB onboard Graphics
Corsair Vengeance 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3 1600MHz High Performance RAM
Western Digital 750GB 7200RPM 64MB Cache SATA3 6.0Gb/s Hard Drive
24x Dual Layer DVD+/- Writer
Integrated 6.1 Channel HD Sound Card
Integrated LAN - Broadband Ready>
4 x Serial ATAII (SATA) 3.0Gb/s devices
4 x USB Ports Back, 2 x USB Ports Front
Black Case 400W Power Supply
PCI Express x16 Graphics Slot
LCD and OS Optional
24 Months Return to base warranty

Does he really need an SSD?
 
grav80 said:
Then add more RAM, at least another 4 gigs

edit: this is for PhotoShop, she luuuuuurves lotsa RAMz!!!!
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Pho3nix said:
Get more Ram in there and Possibly a faster CPU IMO
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Will monitor the ram usage and upgrade it later if needed.

VG008 said:
R 3,599.00

http://www.evetech.co.za/Computer-systems/amd-quad-core-custom-built-desktop-computer-29.aspx

AMD FX™ 4100 (3.6GHz, 8M Cache, 4x Cores, 3.8GHz Turbo) Quad Core CPU
MSI 880G Chipset AM3+ AMD Motherboard
AMD Radeon™ HD4250 Share Up to 512MB onboard Graphics
Corsair Vengeance 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3 1600MHz High Performance RAM
Western Digital 750GB 7200RPM 64MB Cache SATA3 6.0Gb/s Hard Drive
24x Dual Layer DVD+/- Writer
Integrated 6.1 Channel HD Sound Card
Integrated LAN - Broadband Ready>
4 x Serial ATAII (SATA) 3.0Gb/s devices
4 x USB Ports Back, 2 x USB Ports Front
Black Case 400W Power Supply
PCI Express x16 Graphics Slot
LCD and OS Optional
24 Months Return to base warranty

Does he really need an SSD?
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Ah this would of been the way to go, pitty I missed this, yeah the SSD is for Photoshop.
 
Yeah, RAM and photoshop have a platonic relationship. :p

The SSD will take some of the strain of of it, but will still be noticeable. However, RAM is cheap as chips nowadays, so like you said, just monitor it, and if the client isn't happy, then upgrade. Any value RAM really.
 
NomNom said:
Windows 7 Professional 64bit
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Yeah, Windows 7 might struggle a bit on that system. Maybe a bit more RAM - especially when using Photoshop. Also CPU. It will work but it won't be pleasant. I would recommend at least a Core 2 Duo CPU of any kind.
 
Ho3n3r said:
Yeah, Windows 7 might struggle a bit on that system. Maybe a bit more RAM - especially when using Photoshop. Also CPU. It will work but it won't be pleasant. I would recommend at least a Core 2 Duo CPU of any kind.
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The system has 4GB of ram going at 1333MHz and the Pentium G640 is better than the Core 2 Duo range of Cpu's. Windows 7 will not struggle at all on this system, I have built weaker systems that handle Windows 7 fine. The point of this thread was to see if I could of gotten a better deal and better components for the price that was paid. It had already been pointed out that I could of gotten a better system.
 
The new pentium's is actually more powerful than people realize.
Although it being a production pc the saving in rendering time might pay for a faster CPU in itself.
It's all up to what type of photoshop work is being.

RAM is dirt cheap, get 4GB.
SSD here is a good idea imo.
 
droid said:
The new pentium's is actually more powerful than people realize.
Although it being a production pc the saving in rendering time might pay for a faster CPU in itself.
It's all up to what type of photoshop work is being.

RAM is dirt cheap, get 4GB.
SSD here is a good idea imo.
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It does have 4GB.
 
NomNom said:
So we recently quoted a friend a new Pc, it will be used purely for office, email, internet, photoshop.

This is what I came up with:

Case: R274.00
Gigabyte X8 ATX Chassis (requested by my friend)

PSU: R269.00
Thermaltake LitePower, 450w, ATX 12V V2.3, active PFC, dual +12v

Motherboard: R670.00
MSI Intel PH61A-P35B3 H61 Chipset

CPU: R608.00
Intel G630 Pentium - 2.70GHz

Ram: R155.00x2=R310.00
Corsair DESKTOP MEMORY 2GB DDR3 1333 Memory Latency 5 5 5 18

SSD: R713.00
OCZ 60GB Agility 3 Series SATA III 2.5" SSD

HDD: R718.00
Western Digital CAVIAR Blue 32 500GB, 7200 RPM, 32 MB Cache

DVD-ROM: R150.00
LG 24X DVD RW Super-Multi DVD Drive


Subtotal: R3,712.00
Shipping Options (Door to Door 1-4 Working Days - Durban/Amanzimtoti/Ballito Area): R45.00
Total: R3,757.00

Could I have done any better? ...or worse?
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I personally, would've gone for an AMD Trinity APU build (when the desktop processors are released), for around R150 more a Kingston HyperX 8GB Kit - @R453, dropped the SSD (as this is a build with a tight budget), put in a 1TB HDD and upgraded the PSU to a Corsair VS 450.

However one's personal preferences influence a build in a number of ways (e.g. Intel rather AMD, SSD rather than more HDD space, etc.) so in your friend's case you could've done a lot worse.
 
What you think about this for R1140?

seagate momentus XT ST95005620AS Hybrid SSD - with built-in 32mb cache + 4Gb SLC SSD , 500gb

The caching will speed up things up a bit.
Saving of about R300 that can help towards an i3 CPU?

Building an FM1 based system i would go for this board. About R680 i think.
http://www.msi.com/product/mb/A75MA-P35.html
 
Wait why would you go FM1 for a Photoshop build? Those CPU's are pretty weak.
 
NomNom said:
The system has 4GB of ram going at 1333MHz and the Pentium G640 is better than the Core 2 Duo range of Cpu's. Windows 7 will not struggle at all on this system, I have built weaker systems that handle Windows 7 fine. The point of this thread was to see if I could of gotten a better deal and better components for the price that was paid. It had already been pointed out that I could of gotten a better system.
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Why would you say that?

EDIT: Never mind, saw now that it's a new range on the LGA1155 specification, didn't even know the Celeron CPU's were still made. My bad.
 
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