Originally Posted by Mark W  I am not an expert but that looks great.
My psersonal expirience is that a western dig raptor 10000rpm drive for the system disc speeds things up but they are samll and expensive.
You dont really need all that g card power for most editing apps but I presume you play games.
Monitor looks ace but if you really get into editing a second one can be handy. |
Thanks again Mark And sorry everyone for the double post.
Was having a little trouble with the connection during while edditing the post.
I covet that raptor hard drive, I will look at it if I can keep this thing on budget.
For the time being this CRT monitor, which is a high quality trinitron design will have to suffice for a second monitor, my other smaller crt monitors are just there to fill space in my house lol lol.
I know the Graphics card is excessive, yes I play games. Doesn't everyone? Some people go on about lives not being complete without jesus, their mistaken what you really need is Half-Life2
Originally Posted by Alan Mills First thoughts....
1) You'll need another hard drive. For video we typically have the OS and s/w on one drive (say around 60Gb) and keep a big drive 300Gb+ for video. |
Again Alan I apologize for the double post, you seem to have caught the unedited version. You can see in this thread there are 2
Hard Drives 2 : Maxtor 300GB DiamondMax 10 7200RPM . I was innitially going to go for a smaler main drive, a friend pointed out that their quite inexpensive and the price difference is negligable, so a matching pair it is. This will leave me open to opt for a Raid 0 config later if I choose.
2) You don't need to spend $350 on a graphics card for editting video. If it's going to sub as a game machine then maybe.
3) I've no idea what a 'Gaming-Grade' optical mouse is. I suspect it's OTT for video editting. |
Again I have been caught sneeking in games between edits
please refer to above post.
4) 1Gb RAM (of whatever sort) is the min you should consider for video editting. 2Gb+ is better and you'll see the difference. |
I have recieved conflicting opinions on this. So for openers I am going to stay with 1 gig to start. It will help me stay on budget. It is a simple task to add more later.
5) You made no mention here of s/w. Good editting s/w does come at a price (often as mujch as the rig itself) so be careful to budget for it also. |
Again this is a budget issue. I have pinacle left over from my first edit experience. And to stay on budget I will will start out with that. However, I am not even going to upgrade from pinacle 8, and if disapoints me I will try some of the free ware and sonsider purchasing some real s/w.
Thanks again for your posts
Rick
It's not too late ! 
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