Looking for New PC, Beginner

[JamesPCU]

Hi Guys! I'm new here!

I'm looking at buying a PC. Mainly for Video Editing. Little bit of gaming. General school work (Word, Power Point etc, but mainly video editing.)

Budget of £700 including monitor.

Was looking at the following...

Processor: AMD A8-5600 Quad Core APU 3.6 GHz
Motherboard: Asus A55BM - M-ATX
16 GB RAM
2GB GTX 650 Graphics Card

1TB hard drive

Thoughts?

Thanks

 

[smorizio]

if you go the route of the apu make sure you use a fm2 plus mb it let you drop in the newer amd apu.
a slightly faster system would be an i3 on a h81 mb with the same gpu.

 

[houldendub]

Just briefly looking, I wouldn't get an A-series CPU, simply because they're APUs and have a graphics chip on board, boosting the price and dampening the performance. I'd recommend getting an FX series processor if you're set going with AMD, to be honest.

For a tenner more you can get the FX 6300, which scores better in tests and such. What monitor have you gone for, can I ask?

 

[akruet227]

The processor motherboard, RAM and hard drive are all good, but the graphics card isn't. The GTX 650 2gb is $139.99 on newegg (Source: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130830) and if you are willing to spend about $30 more, you can get a Radeon 7850 2gb (Source: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150641) which performs much better than a GTX 650. If you wanted to see how well it does, here is a comparison. http://gpuboss.com/gpus/XFX-Radeon-HD-7850-vs-EVGA-GeForce-GTX-650 Hope this helps with your decision. It's better just to save an allowance for a few more weeks or work for a few more hours to get the better card than to stick with the lower end one.

 

[stantriespcbuilding]

what money are you willing to spend on your monitor? oh and also 16 gigs of RAM is really not needed if you are going for such a budget pc instead put some more money into your APU/CPU. another thing is that a radeon GPU will work a bit better with the APU that you selected, but thats up to you if you really want the nvidia drivers.

 

[Tzn]

i5 3450, hd 7750.