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Looking for some guidance on building a PC. I know some of you guys live for this stuff. I have been out of the hardware scene far too long so hoping for some help to save me time and frustration.

Here’s what I need:

Budget: ~$600 USD a bit flexible on this.

Peripherals: not needed I’ll reuse what I have currently for KB, mouse, monitor

Use: Photoshop, Sony Vegas Movie Studio, Lightroom, some gaming (have not played a game on my PC for years. Enjoy playing CoD on console but would play on PC with a better machine than what I currently am using)

Overclocking: Nah… I don’t see a need for what I am doing.

OS: Windows 7 or Windows 8 (I believe 8 is a bit faster?)

I do know I want to do SSD for boot and then large storage drive for secondary. Would be nice to be able to play most games but don’t want to break the bank.

Thanks in advance!

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Check out the build on my profile, it still might be within the $600 range, but if not, you can always use an AMD processor instead. Without Windows of course, that's another 100+ dollars (I.d check ebay auctions).

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Guide:

For your goals you need fas. CPU and a lots of ram. Not sure 8gig is gonna cut it. Also faster ram is better for productivity. The price difference between 1600 and 2133 is negligible...

You also  need large SSD. And fast... A-Data is nice and not very expensive option, Samsung 840 Evo is nice, just make sure it's over 500 read and write speed.

For GPU it depends if you will use OpenCL or CUDA more. AMD kills it with OpenCL, but Nvidia destroy in CUDAapplications.i

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AMD 6300, R9 270x, 16 gb ram, 128 or 256gb SSD, 1TB HDD, m5a99fx r 2.0

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Ok... I started a build on PCPartPicker..... I need to trim the cost a bit.... any ideas so I can maintain a decent level of performance?

Build Link:  http://pcpartpicker.com/user/SurgeonFish/saved/TdsnTW

Thanks.

 

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$600 but with no OS has a 4 core core i5 intel cpu  and a 750ti for cuda applications.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/gdPPQ7

CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($189.99 @ Newegg) 

Motherboard: MSI H97M-E35 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($74.99 @ Newegg)

Memory: Kingston Blu 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($75.99 @ Amazon)

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($54.98 @ OutletPC)

Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB TWIN FROZR Video Card ($119.99 @ Newegg)

Case: Cooler Master N200 MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($44.99 @ Micro Center)

Power Supply: Corsair Builder 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($34.99 @ Micro Center)

Total: $595.92

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I did some switching around... different MOBO, Vid Card and Case....

Brought price down a bit:

http://pcpartpicker.com/user/SurgeonFish/saved/8RQfrH

I put 8gb RAM for now and can upgrade later since MB has 4 slots.  

Thoughts?

 CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor ($109.99 @ NCIX US) 

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($29.98 @ OutletPC)

Motherboard: ASRock 970 Pro3 R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($59.99 @ Newegg)

Memory: A-Data XPG V1.0 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($80.99 @ Amazon)

Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($80.99 @ NCIX US)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($54.98 @ OutletPC)

Video Card: Asus Radeon HD 7770 2GB Video Card ($129.99 @ Amazon)

Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case ($47.99 @ Micro Center)

Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($44.99 @ Newegg)

Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS DVD/CD Writer ($16.98 @ OutletPC)

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($89.98 @ OutletPC)

Total: $746.85

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-07-31 16:40 EDT-0400

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http://pcpartpicker.com/p/JLVjBm

More like $700. If you need it cheaper, downgrade the GPU to a 750ti or R7 260x.