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02-09-2006, 11:28 AM
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Hi Guys
Doing a project at school in ICT... got to build a top notch video editing system for £3000...
Need to include a spec for the machine... which includes prices for software....
Can you help me spec this PC???
Cheers Fellas
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02-10-2006, 12:28 AM
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You can spend around£1500 on a pc and it will be a dynamite machine for editing then spend the rest on a pro capture card
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02-10-2006, 12:03 PM
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Haven't really got time to look for prices, but:
AMD Athlon 64 4800
Asus A8N-SLI motherboard
4GB RAM (bear in mind winxp 32 bit can only handle 4GB including virtual RAM so you may have to turn paging off)
A couple of 500GB SATA HDDs (possibly a WD raptor 10kRPM HD too)
A decent Tagan branded PSU
Geforce 7800 (although you don't necessarily need the incredibly fast GPU, you may as well future-proof yourself for software that uses GPU rendering)
Two TFT monitors.
A really, really big egg.
Spend the rest on ham and chocolate digestives.
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02-10-2006, 04:51 PM
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the above list kicks ass but replace mobo with a DFI Lan Party nF4 SLI-DR and make the athlon 64 a dual core .... thats gonna be under 3000 no problem
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02-10-2006, 04:59 PM
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Originally Posted by JourneyMan the above list kicks ass but replace mobo with a DFI Lan Party nF4 SLI-DR and make the athlon 64 a dual core .... thats gonna be under 3000 no problem |
Dude - the guy is looking at vidoe editing not gaming! Although a highly specced gaming machine will do video it will not be optimized for video.
You need to look into dual cpu boards - not dual core but dual cpu's
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02-10-2006, 05:29 PM
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true lol :(
however dual cpu boards are for now only limited to servers otherwise i would pounce on them like theres no tomorrow lol
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02-10-2006, 05:40 PM
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true but - most pc based edit rigs I've used have been server boards and they work a treat
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02-10-2006, 05:46 PM
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wow ... ill deffinatly have to look into that for when i build my next rig!
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02-10-2006, 08:39 PM
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With the spare 1500 I would buy a q head g card and 4 HUGE TFTs.
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02-10-2006, 09:08 PM
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Originally Posted by JourneyMan the above list kicks ass but replace mobo with a DFI Lan Party nF4 SLI-DR and make the athlon 64 a dual core .... thats gonna be under 3000 no problem |
Journeyman - Although the DFI is a good gamers board, personally I don't reckon you can fault Asus for stability, which is more important for video editing IMHO.
As for the CPU, I did atually mean an Athlon X2 4800. Missed that bit out  | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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