Buying a PC for Editing in Adobe PP and After Effects in the UK

If you aren't into building your own, I'd say to look at the HP's - the 600 or 800 series. The 600 series may be more in your price range. I am assuming you just want the PC and have everything else you need for your edit bay...
TC

Second Todd's recommendation; Z620 and Z820 are awesome systems.

The only "but" is that in the US a well configured single-CPU Z620 or Z820 is in the $4K-5K range; I heard prices are a bit higher in the UK.

By "well configured" I mean a base 6-core model such as Z820 B2C03UT, with a decent graphics card (GTX-670, Quadro 4000) added, upgraded to 32GB memory, and possibly a couple of 2TB or 3TB drives for the media array - not including DCC software, hardware or display monitor(s).

Configured this way on HP site, it comes out to $4,459:
- HP Z820 Workstation (B2C03UT), base, with one Xeon® E5-2630 2.30 GHz
- add NVidia Quadro 4000
- add 32GB RAM (4x 8GB registered ECC)
- add two HP 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 7200 HDD

A similarly configured Z620 - same exact price. I see no benefit in using a Z620 vs. a Z820.

Using 3rd party memory, hard drives and a GTX-670 card vs. Quadro 4000, saves about $600-800.

So possibly you'd want to contact a UK specialty integrator (like ADK and Puget we have in the US) and have them build a custom system?

Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Integrator
DV411 - Los Angeles, CA