Any thoughts

[micsim]

Case
COOLERMASTER SILEO 500 QUIET MID TOWER CASE

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i3-550 Dual Core (3.20GHz, 4MB Cache) + HD Graphics

Motherboard
ASUS® P7H55-M/USB3: MICRO ATX MAINBOARD,USB 3.0 & SATA 6.0Gb/s

Memory (RAM)
8GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 4GB)

Graphics Card
1GB ATI RADEON™ HD 5750 PCI EXPRESS - DirectX® 11

2nd Graphics Card
NONE

Memory - 1st Hard Disk
1.5TB WD CAVIAR GREEN WD15EARS, SATA 3 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE

2nd Hard Disk
NONE

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
4x BLU-RAY ROM DRIVE, 16x DVD ROM (£35)

2nd DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
NONE

Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT

Power Supply & Case Cooling
450W Quiet 80 PLUS Dual Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£29)

Processor Cooling
SUPER QUIET 22dBA TRIPLE COPPER HEATPIPE CPU COOLER (£19)

Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

Network Facilities
ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT

 

[micsim]

PS. I use my pc for photo editing, browsing & playing a few not very up to date games

 

[PCS]

Generally a good spec, but un-balanced. You have too much RAM when compared to your CPU and graphics. As you don't play games, consider downgrading your RAM to 4GB. It will save you some un-necessary expenditure!

 

[Sleinous]

photo editing on photoshop? Consider an Nvidia GPU - they have CUDA cores which make photoshop a breeze, something ATI lacks.

Advice:

Drop to 4gb ram, ample, besides 8gb single modules are releasing soon which should bring price of 2gb and 4gb down.

Next: Change gpu to gts 450.

Good choice of 64mb cached hdd

 

[micsim]

Thanks for the info.

In the past my 4g RAM has seemed to little to load 12 megapixel photosand edit them in Photoshop Elements so I thought 8gb RAM. Am I wrong?

Is the 450 as good for games such as Rome Total Realism?

Regards

Mike

 

[Sleinous]

Yes it is however if the budget can stretch - go for the gtx 460.

another thing to note - this is dual channel 1333mhz RAM, probably way faster than ur old ram? maybe single channrl @ 667mhz?

U can add another 4gb latr on when prices have dropped following the release of 8gb single modules.