finally narrowed down to two PC spec but which one?

topcat007

Hi,
i someone could advise me which would be the better for the money and why please?

Also the one you pick is it good spec for the money?

Needs to handle games on high settings and photo editing these are really at my max budget.


firstly coming in at £580 at CCL computers (potential £560 after cash back)

Intel Core i5-4440 3.10GHz LGA1150 Retail
2x Kingston ValueRAM 4GB DDR3 1600MHz Memory Module
Asus H81M-PLUS Motherboard Core i7/i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron 1150 H81 uATX Gigabit LAN (Integrated Graphics)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB Hard Drive (7200rpm) SATA 64MB (Internal)
PowerColor AMD Radeon HD7870 2GB OC Graphics Card
CCL Choice 22x DVD+/-RW Drive
Inwin Z638 Micro ATX Screwless Black Case
CCL Choice 450W 80+ High Efficiency PSU
3 Year Collect & Return warranty
TP-Link TL-WN781ND 150Mbps Wireless Lite N PCI Express Adapter


coming in at about £577 DIno PC

Customizations:
CPU: AMD FX 6300 Black Edition
Operating System: Windows 8.1 (64-bit)
Motherboard: Gigabyte 78LMT-USB3 Included
Memory: 8GB Corsair 1600mhz Vengeance (2x4GB)
Hard Drive: 1TB S-ATAIII 6.0Gb/s
Optical Drive: 22x DVD±RW DL S-ATA
Graphics card: NEW! AMD Radeon R9 270X 2GB
Sound card: Onboard 7.1 Audio
Case: NEW! Zalman Z3
PSU: 550W Corsair VS
Warranty: 3 Year SureCare Warranty (sc-1) Included
this also comes with assassins creed 4 and dirt (but i am more interested in the hardware, suppose i could sell them? to bring the price down)



And anyone know if CCL or dino are better for after care?

Help greatly appreciated thanks

gonzo127

for your usage I would probably suggest the dinopc one, as although the i5 processor is generally better, due to much stronger single core performance

for heavier work loads such as video and photo editing a higher core count can be better (dependant on program) so having a 6 core CPU could be better than the i5 processor, added to that more ram always helps, and for gaming a better GPU will generally always make more difference than a better cpu, and the r9 270x is a tweaked 7870 with higher speed ram, so will be slightly better than the 7870oc

there is also a very high possibility that with the new generation of consoles being loaded with lot of cpu cores, that more and more games will start utilising heavy multi threading, which could see some major benefits to having a higher core count cpu - although this is just speculation