New PC

[iltoroblu]

Dear community,
As my 5 years old Dell Inspiron 1520 is getting older I'm thinking of a new PC and I need your advice. My budget is 700$ and it needs to fit a monitor, keyboard, mouse, components. No gaming here, just intense Photoshop (web developer, designer). I was thinking of the following configuration, priced at 444$:

■AMD DDR3 8192MB (2 x 4096) 1600MHz Performance Edition
■Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA3 64MB
■AMD Fusion A8-5500, 4 nuclee, 3200 MHz, Turbo 3700 MHz, Cache L2 4MB, TDP 65W (BOX) [Trinity]
■SAMSUNG DVD Writer SH-224BB, Intern, SATA, Bulk (Negru)
■Asrock FM2A85X Extreme6, FM2, SATA 3 x7, USB 3.0 x6, ATX

What's your opinion on it? I've been running fine on a Core 2 Duo T7500 2.2Ghz, 3Gb ram, Nvidia 8600GT. Would the new AMD Trinity run fine? I'm thinking of the electricity bill also or should I better choose a new laptop+monitor?

10x

 

[o1die]

Here's my recommendations:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811235037 case $45
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139026 $20 after rebate and promo code; you have to be registered with newegg to use promo codes.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823126097 keyboard/mouse $18 good today only
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824176249 monitor $109 shipped
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832416550 windows 8 $100
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113281 trinity $110
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813135328 board $66 shipped after rebate
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835233082 heatsink $20
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104361 ram $62
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135252 blue ray burner $40 after rebate
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148321 hardrive $80

Total: about $670 after rebates and promo codes.

I recommended the ecs board as it's brand new; should support your trinity cpu without a bios flash and has lots of ports. Just gets the job done. I've had better service from ecs than some of the larger board makers such as asus or gigabyte I recommend you get a 60 gb ssd when it's on sale for less than $50. I don't even use a standard hardrive anymore; it's too slow and noisy.

 

[Mousemonkey]

This topic has been moved from the section CPU & Components to section Systems by Mousemonkey

 

[Lutfij]

Here's my shout out

MSI FM2-A85XA-G65 $100
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB $50
AMD A10-5800K Trinity 3.8GHz $120
Corsair Carbide Series 300R $65 if you're able to get the 200R
would keep the rest the same, comes to about $702(excluding rebates you might get with the parts I've suggested)

* APU is the best option for you actually as photoshop has drivers/codes written to work better on APU's. Kinda like Nvidia forray with physx tech.
** you'll need some large storage options to keep your shopped files+along with a large SSD for scratch disk space.

 

[iltoroblu]

10x guys for the advices. Think I'm gonna choose the A8 mainly because there's no main difference and 20-30$ cheaper here. Also gonna include a Samsung SSD. Nice day to you all!