Remember me? New PC time!

[A Twig]

Evening all - bit of a blast from the past I'm sure, but hopefully you can forgive me!

A "few years ago" the power supply in my Gaming PC died, so no more ARMA2 snipeathons for me, I kept meaning to buy a replacement, but never had the spare money at the end of the month, then a house move, a fiancee, hectic job and saving for a wedding all got in the way.

This evening I finally got around to taking it apart to sort it out. It was only while opening it up, I realised that I've owned this PC for 8 years now... and 320MB graphics cards and ancient dual core AMD processor doesn't really cut it any more. I also realised I haven't got a clue what's decent anymore in PC land, so to the hive mind of dMw, I would ask your expertise.

Budget
~£500 and no time/facilities to build anything myself.

Usage:
Primarily video and photo editing (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere)
A small amount of basic CAD design (nothing that would need workstation specs, just the odd simple mechanical component, or sketch of a room for the house)
Very occasional gaming (maybe a bit of ARMA, CounterStrike, and the odd RTS for the missus, but nothing AAA or released in last year or two.

Specs:
If my memory serves me right - based on the above I think I therefore require a mid range GFX card (1 GB??), as much RAM as I can afford to chuck in (8GB??), and a mid range processor (bottom spec i5?). Or am I talking out of my posterior?

I believe all the cool kids are running their OS on an SSD these days, with a separate spinning platter for storage? I have a brand new  2.5" 256GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD which is currently unused, and the salvaged HDD (with OS etc) from my last PC.

Can I buy a "barebones" machine with maybe less RAM, wang the SSD and HDD disks in and hopefully be off and away, upgrading RAM and HDD later on?

Where to Buy from
I've looked at these chaps www.computerplanet.co.uk and am struggling to get a build within budget but I have no idea what I should be choosing or if their prices are sensible? Is there anyone else that would be an option?

Cheers all, and I promised once I get a PC sorted I'll be less of a stranger!

[King85]

If you want something that is prebuilt then i'd definitely consider Overclockers.

This sort of the setup may be worth a look:

Defender X6

Titan Bayonet

Titan Dagger

You've said you don't want to put it together yourself but you could do it in around 2 hours for a first attempt and you'd definitely get more for your money so worth considering imo.

[albert]

Since the Euro is so weak and if they ship to the UK

http://gamecomputers.nl/game-pc/axon/axon-budget/

I bought my PC there and they were awesome.  Base spec is £425 so some slack in there for shipping and upgrades. It may be the time take advantage of the Euro!

[A Twig]

Thanks chaps - albert, that website is great, but they only ship to belgium and netherlands, gutted as that would be ideal! I like the look of those options King, will have an investigate, cheers!

[King85]

Overclockers have a warehouse/store in Manchester too if you're local to there.