I want to buy a new computer, tower only, and I am customizing a computer on the HP website. I DON'T want to buy parts and completely build my own computer so please don't suggest that. Other people have but I only want to buy something pre-built. I don't have the computer knowledge to try and figure out what to buy and it'd just take too long to research and learn it.
The computer is for web surfing, adobe program use (illustrator, photoshop, ect.) and some gaming (Aion, Guild Wars 2, mmo's). It's important that the computer can handle adobe programs well as I use them a lot and I'm going to college for graphic design and they're important programs for designing. It's not important that the games can play at high settings. As long as the games are playable at all I'm fine. I'm not interested in getting a computer that can play all the current high end games on the highest setting possible, those I play on my Ps3/Xbox when they're multi-platform. I would also like some ideas for a cheap but decent graphics card to possibly upgrade to that's under $200. My budget is $600-$900 altogether for both the comp and card, if I decide to get the card.
Would this computer be good enough?
HP p7-1380t series
Operating system: Windows 7 Home Premium [64-bit]
Processor: 2nd Generation Intel® Core i5-2320 processor [3.0GHz, 6MB Shared Cache] (is this quad core?)
Memory: FREE UPGRADE to 6GB DDR3-1333MHz SDRAM [2 DIMMs] from 4GB
Hard drive: FREE UPGRADE to 1TB 7200 rpm hard drive from 500GB
Secondary Hard Drive: 500GB 7200 rpm SATA hard drive
Graphics card: 512MB AMD Radeon HD 7350 [DVI, HDMI, VGA adapter] or 1GB Nvidia GeForce GT620 [DVI, HDMI, VGA via Adapter]
Primary optical drive: SuperMulti DVD Burner
Networking: Wireless-N LAN card (2x2)
Sound Card: Beats Audio -- integrated studio quality sound
Or this one
HPE h8-1320t series
Operating system: Windows 7 Home Premium [64-bit]
Processor: 2nd Generation Intel® Core i5-2320 quad-core processor [3.0GHz, 6MB Shared Cache]
Memory: FREE UPGRADE to 6GB DDR3-1333MHz SDRAM [2 DIMMs] from 4GB
Hard drive: 1TB 7200 rpm SATA hard drive
Secondary Hard Drive: 500GB 7200 rpm SATA hard drive
Graphics card: 1GB DDR3 AMD Radeon HD 7450 [HDMI, DVI, VGA via adapter]
Power Supply: 300watt
Primary optical drive: SuperMulti DVD Burner
Networking: Premium Wireless-N LAN card and Bluetooth(R )(2x2))
Sound Card: Beats Audio -- integrated studio quality sound
I'm really more searching on if the processors, memory, and graphics card are good enough for what I want to do with the computer. I'm still debating on a lot of things and if I want to just buy from Best Buy or some other site a pre-built comp that has these in it if they're good enough or do the HP customization and buy from their website.
I have a GeForce 8600 GTS 512MB that I'd like to replace the graphic card with. Is it compatible and would it be good enough for those games at the moment? I will probably replace the card at a later date, that's why I wanted some graphic card suggestions. And I have a 460 watt power supply I can switch in for the card. I don't want to get a new power supply unless there's absolutely no choice for the new card if I get it. I know it's a lot and I hope this all made sense.