Advice for home PC

[slicendice73]

Hi

My current PC (12 year old Dell XPS) recently died and I need to get something sorted as a replacement. I will post a spec on here at some point, but to start with I want to try and narrow down a couple of things. The most strenuous thing it would be used for would probably be photo and video editing along with occasional streaming.

So what I want to narrow down at this point is:

1. What processor would be best? I'm thinking i5 at this stage but there are quite a lot of i5's around! Is it worth going for 13th gen?
2. Graphics card? My feeling is to go for a discrete graphics card over Intel, but again there are a ton of options and I'm not sure what to go for.

In terms of budget, I want to try and keep it under £1000 if possible

Thanks

 

[SpyderTracks]

Hi

My current PC (12 year old Dell XPS) recently died and I need to get something sorted as a replacement. I will post a spec on here at some point, but to start with I want to try and narrow down a couple of things. The most strenuous thing it would be used for would probably be photo and video editing along with occasional streaming.

So what I want to narrow down at this point is:

1. What processor would be best? I'm thinking i5 at this stage but there are quite a lot of i5's around! Is it worth going for 13th gen?
2. Graphics card? My feeling is to go for a discrete graphics card over Intel, but again there are a ton of options and I'm not sure what to go for.

In terms of budget, I want to try and keep it under £1000 if possible

Thanks

£1000 is not really going to get you anything worthwhile.

An AMD platform would be the best option, but it's not really viable at that budget, you would definitely need a discrete GPU for any worthwhile performance.

You'd be looking around £1200 for something very entry level.

Components have shot up in price since the pandemic with many issues including high inflation, plus manufacturing difficulties, so what your money could get 3 years ago, you need to spend substantially more now for the equivalent.

 

[slicendice73]

Thanks Spyder. Wow...I knew prices had gone up steeply but hadn't realised they'd gone up that steeply!

Ok, so if we pushed the budget up to £1200...?