Have a suggestion for a budget graphics PC?
Hello,
My wife needs a new PC for running Illustrator/Photoshop CS6. She is still on her XP machine.
Looking for turnkey PC solutions.
What budget range is realistic?
Should Dell be considered?
Thanks in advance, JT
Some examples of quite good performers that are discounted because they are no longer current tech.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Precision-T5500-8-Core-Workstation-/390545294274?pt=Desktop_P Cs&hash=item5aee5043c2
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Precision-T5500-2X-E5520-QC-2-26GHz-1TB-Quadro-570-12gb-SIMIL AR-TO-HP-Z800-/230944342723?pt=Desktop_PCs&hash=item35c55b02c3
The key is that older hardware that's equipped with high-end parts often performs as well as modern hardware with less than high-end parts, and the former is quite often cheaper.
Take a look at this page to do paper comparisons to see how systems with various processors compare to one another, using the PassMark benchmark:
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/
-Noel
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