Help Please to Buy New Home Computer

Seffo

Need to buy a new home computer, want to run Adobe Dreamweaver CS / Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Microsoft Flightsimulator FSX
Quoted for a Dell T1500 Precision £1200
Spec:
One Intel® Core™ i7-870 (Quad Core, 2.93 GHz, 8MB Cache) 1 6GB DDR3 non-ECC Memory (1333MHz, 3x2GB) 1 1GB GDDR5 ATI FirePro V4800 - 2DP, 1DVI (1DP-DVI, 1DVI-VGA adapter) Graphics Card

Do you know if this is overload for my requirements?
What other models do you recommend?
Thanks Paul:beer:

DCFC79

What size hard drve is it and OS, wel i guess OS is windows 7

Seffo

Sorry missed off on my original mail.

1TB (7200RPM) SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive with NCQ and 32MB DataBurst Cache™
Windows 7

Thanks:T

aerostar

Check the recommended system specifications for the programs you want to use then look for a computer. Most programs should show minimum specs and recommended specs for the software.

Here is what I found.

Dreamweaver
CS5 shows
Windows

• Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor
• Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended); Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1; or Windows 7
• 512MB of RAM
• 1GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash-based storage devices)
• 1280x800 display with 16-bit video card
• DVD-ROM drive

Photoshop

Windows

• Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor
• Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 3; Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (Service Pack 2 recommended); or Windows 7
• 1GB of RAM
• 1GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash-based storage devices)
• 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM
• Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0
• DVD-ROM drive
• QuickTime 7.6.2 software required for multimedia features

Flightsim
System:3.6 GHz CPU or equivalentRAM:2048 MBVideo Memory:512 MBHard Drive Space:14000 MBLook here http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1562063 some info from a forum

bengalknights

The processor is a bit overkill, you could get away with using a 4/6 core amd phenom 2 processor or the i5 or lower range i7s.

Also if your windows is not 64 bit you could just stick to 4gb ram.