Best Spec - Graphic Card and Ram etc?

**Canyon** · 08-15-2006, 04:41 PM

I want to use the computer soley for editing/special effects/DVD burning.

I use Prem pro 2, A/E 7.0, ENCORE/ audition 2.0.

How much ram (more than 2GB?), more than 200 GB hd, Processor? and which graphics card would you recommend?

**Canyon** · 08-17-2006, 08:55 AM

Anyone have any suggestions?

**Crusty** · 08-17-2006, 11:23 AM

Don't wory about it. Video editing just needs huge hard drives and a fast CPU. Most of the work isn't done in ram, at any one time only a few frames are in ram. The rest of the video work is on the hard drives, so overall speed is set by their head settling times and continuous read/write rates.

**miwhel** · 08-17-2006, 07:29 PM

I agree mostly with crusty, CPU and HDD are the most important qualities and 2gb at least for anything from adobe, but in my own experience PPro 2 and AE 7 run noticebly smoother since I upgraded my graphics card from XT800 128mb to XT1600 256mb. But I would add to that not to bother with SLI or the latest top of the range cards as this would be a waste of money, the xt1600 cost £100.

**Canyon** · 08-18-2006, 08:26 AM

Thanks Guys

I was going to Buy a new CUSTOM built computer dedicated soley to Adobe Prem Pro Editing/After effects/ Photoshop/audition/encore...I've seen several on the market which are within my price range (£1000) and below...

AMD Athlon 64X2 5000+AM2 PROCESSOR with WIN XP

1024 MB CCR2 memory - 533MHZ,
300 gb ATA Hard Drive,
256MB Nvidia GeForce 7900GT

Do any of you have experience with any of these items? I only ever had an off the shelf PC before (pent 4) The description/spec given really made them sound like the "Dogs undercarrige" and everything I would need for a smooth editing experience.

Thanks again