Best Value Photography PC V2

SKU:

5060959093916

£817.00 (inc VAT)

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  • Contour LP-2001 Black mATX Chassis
  • Intel Core i5-14400F 2.5/4.7GHz 10 Core, 16 Thread CPU
  • Gigabyte H610M Gaming Wifi DDR4 Motherboard
  • NVidia GeForce RTX 3050 6GB GPU
  • 32GB Crucial DDR4 3200MHz Memory (2x16GB)
  • 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD (3500MB/R, 2100MB/W)
  • 2TB Seagate BarraCuda 3.5″ Hard Drive
  • Intel Standard CPU Cooler
  • Contour 500W High Efficiency ATX PSU
  • Built in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
  • Built in 5.1 Sound Card
  • Microsoft Windows® 11 Home

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Best value PC for the amateur photographer

Updated 03/11/24.

 

When choosing components for a photography PC, there’s always a trade off between price and performance. When designing our best value photography PC we wanted to choose all the components that sit in that sweet spot of ultimate price / performance. At this price level, small amounts of extra cash spent on component upgrades can yield considerable performance gains.

 

Years of research and customer feedback are used to determine the sweet spot in terms of value and performance and here we’ve put all our knowledge and experience to put all these components together to produce the Punch Best Value Photography PC.

 

This system is capable of running Adobe Photoshop CC and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC applications with higher image file sizes due to the 32GB of system memory.

 

Firstly we’ve included a higher performance CPU, the Intel Core i5-14400F is a 10 core CPU which performs very well in photography based applications.  There is an RTX 3060 6GB graphic card included which hugely out performs the integrated Radeon graphics in the entry level models.  The memory has been increased from 16GB to 32GB which greatly improves performance for more complex editing.

 

We include the excellent Gigabyte H610M Gaming Wifi motherboard which offers ample connectivity and is ideal for high data throughput requirements and offers upgrade potential.  The SSD drive remains a high performance 1TB NVMe M.2 model.

 

Modern commercial image processing software requires a minimum of 16GB of memory, and you will need plenty of fast storage to hold your image catalogue. This system has 32GB of memory.

 

Read our blog articles to find out more about customising your PC spec to benefit Photoshop and Lightroom.

Six Core 14th Gen Processor

14th Gen Intel CPU

2TB Storage Drive

Seagate 3.5" Hard Drive 7200rpm 2TB Barracuda

Gigabyte H610M Gaming Wifi

High performance SSD

Specifications:

Processor

  • Intel Core i5-14400F 2.5Ghz 10 Core CPU
  • 16 Processor Threads
  • Max Turbo Frequency 4.7GHz
  • Cache: 20MB
  • Intel Air Cooler Installed

Memory

  • 32GB DDR4 3200Mhz RAM
  • Dual Channel – 2 x 16GB
  • Supports up to 64GB
  • 2 x DIMM sockets (2 Used)

Hard Drive

  • 1TB NVME M.2 SSD (3500MB/R, 2100MB/W)
  • 2 x M.2 sockets, 1 free (1 used for the SSD Drive)
  • 2TB Seagate BarraCuda 3.5″ Hard drive
  • 4 SATA Ports, 3 free (1 Used for 2TB HDD)

Optical Drive

  • None
  • 1 x Optical Bays, 1 free

Software

  • Windows 11 Home 64-bit
  • Clean install, no additional software

Chipset

  • Intel H610 Chipset

Display Outputs

  • 3 x DisplayPort 1.4a
  • 1 x HDMI 2.1
  • Supports up to 4 monitors at once
  • Supports HDCP

Graphics

  • NVidia RTX 3050 6GB

Audio

  • High Definition Audio, 5.1 or 7.1 channel
  • Audio provided by Realtek ALC892 Audio Chip on the motherboard

Input Devices

  • No Keyboard or Mouse Included

Wired Networking

  • Realtek® 1GbE LAN chip (1 Gbps/100 Mbps)

Wireless Networking

  • Intel Wi-Fi 5
  • Speeds up to 1733 mbps
  • Bluetooth 5.1

Power Supply

  • 500 watts

Dimensions

  • Height: 408mm
  • Width: 210mm
  • Depth: 418mm

Interfaces

  • 1 x PS/2 Keyboard Port
  • 1 x PS/2 Mouse Port
  • 6 x USB 2.0 Port (2 front, 4 rear)
  • 4 x USB 3.2 Port (2 front, 2 rear)
  • 1 x RJ-45 Ethernet Port
  • 3 x Audio Jacks at the rear
  • 2 x Audio Jacks at the front
  • 3 x DisplayPort 1.4a on GPU
  • 1 x HDMI 2.1 on GPU

Note the display outputs from the motherboard are disabled when a graphics card is installed

 

Expansion

  • 1 x PCI-e x 16 Slots, 0 free (1 x Used for GPU)
  • 1 x PCI-e x 1 Slots, 2 free

Case

  • Contour LP-2001 Black Case
  • 1 x 80mm black fan installed at the front
  • Space for 1 additional 92mm fan at the rear

Warranty

  • 3 Year Return to Base parts and labour
  • 1st 30 days collect and return at our expense

Additional information

Weight 9 kg
Dimensions 41.8 × 21 × 40.8 cm
RAM

PC Graphics

Processor Type

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Software

Wired Network Connection

Ethernet Port

Wireless

Wireless, Wireless & Bluetooth

Power Supply

500W

DVD Drive

DVDRW

PC Audio

High Definition Audio 7.1

Brand

, ,

PC Monitors Supported

4 x monitors

Graphics Ports

DisplayPort, HDMI

Storage Capacity

1TB, 2TB

Storage Type

HDD, M.2 NVMe SSD

RAM Speed

3200 MHz

RAM Type

DDR4

CPU Boost/Turbo Speed

4.7 Ghz

CPU Cores

10 Core

CPU Model

Intel Core i5-14400F

CPU Speed

2.5 GHz

Overclockable CPU

No

Motherboard Chipset

Intel H610

Motherboard Form factor

mATX

Motherboard DIMM Slots

2

Motherboard Total RAM Supported

64 GB

GPU Memory

6GB

Reconfigurability

Configurable

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