I’m a Photography and Video student and I need a new desktop PC. Can anyone recommend one?
Sorry if I sound really stupid, but I’m not very good with computers, although I have managed to get together some specs and programmes that I should really have/already use.
I work with Pinnacle Studio Plus 11 and Adobe Photoshop for editing, with a DVD/Video format of DV PAL (I’m in the UK). Digital photoshoots often leave me with 200+ images at around 4MB file size each.
As well as this, I currently have a backstore of video files in excess of 8GB.
I am also looking for my new PC to play Neverwinter Nights one and two with all the expansion packs, as my current laptop just does not like them.
Rewritable DVD/CD drives are a must. Firewire connection is a must. I will also need at least 2 USB drives, with at least one being USB2.
Can anybody recommend a desktop that would fit these, as I get confused looking at all the specs on websites and I don’t really understand graphics cards, sound cards, or anything like that.
Thanks!
Dell XPS 420. £549. It sgot a quad core 3.4 Q6600, two 320mb hard disks in raid, firewire ports on front and back, two usb ports on front, four on back, headphone and microphone sockets front and back. Its got vista hom premium but comes with three gigs of ram. Thats more than enough, but also comes with a nvidia 8800GT 512Mb and thats a cracking card. Both games and video/photpgraphy work can be done in RAW modes. This is a beast of a machine. You will have to get a good monitor though as it does’nt come with one. I paired it with a samsung 226bw gaming tft with 2ms response time. Its got great colour balance and photo editing is a breeze. Any quad core will future proof your needs. Hope the infos useful. Luke
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