Hi there, Any advice on this would be much appreciated.
I have a £500 budget and mostly do light 2D CAD work, some photo editing and am planning on using sketch up, but nothing super detailed (i'm a cabinet maker, so dawings of drawers, wardrobes,etc) and no rendering. This was my original idea below, but have since been advised that I'd need a GPU for sketch up and that an i3 will be good enough. So I'm changing to an i3-4350T and adding a 1GB AMD RADEON™ R5 230. I realise not the best GPU, but it's the only one that fits and I figure that as I'm not doing any gaming it should be ok. Also, my current hard drive has only used 96GB, so I'm thinking the 240 SSD will be ample.
Case
Inwin Mini-ITX BM643 Case + 160W PSU
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5 Dual Core Processor i5-4590T (2.0GHz) 6MB Cache (changed to i3 4350T)
Motherboard
ASUS® H81I-PLUS: Mini-ITX, LG1150, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs
Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator HD + Clear Video HD Technology (change to 1GB AMD RADEON™ R5 230)
1st Hard Disk
250GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
8x SATA DVD±R/RW/Dual Layer (+ 24x CD-RW)
Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options
2 x USB 3.0 PORTS + 4 x USB 2.0 PORTS AS STANDARD
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
DVD Recovery Media
NO DVD RECOVERY MEDIA REQUIRED
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
I have a £500 budget and mostly do light 2D CAD work, some photo editing and am planning on using sketch up, but nothing super detailed (i'm a cabinet maker, so dawings of drawers, wardrobes,etc) and no rendering. This was my original idea below, but have since been advised that I'd need a GPU for sketch up and that an i3 will be good enough. So I'm changing to an i3-4350T and adding a 1GB AMD RADEON™ R5 230. I realise not the best GPU, but it's the only one that fits and I figure that as I'm not doing any gaming it should be ok. Also, my current hard drive has only used 96GB, so I'm thinking the 240 SSD will be ample.
Case
Inwin Mini-ITX BM643 Case + 160W PSU
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5 Dual Core Processor i5-4590T (2.0GHz) 6MB Cache (changed to i3 4350T)
Motherboard
ASUS® H81I-PLUS: Mini-ITX, LG1150, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs
Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator HD + Clear Video HD Technology (change to 1GB AMD RADEON™ R5 230)
1st Hard Disk
250GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
8x SATA DVD±R/RW/Dual Layer (+ 24x CD-RW)
Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options
2 x USB 3.0 PORTS + 4 x USB 2.0 PORTS AS STANDARD
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
DVD Recovery Media
NO DVD RECOVERY MEDIA REQUIRED
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)