Hi everyone,

I'm building a budget-level PC for video editing using Avid Liquid or Avid Xpress DV and would like some advice.

I've been looking through these forums for a while now and have come up with a list of components I think will be up to it but as I have had no experience in building PCs for anything other than gaming, I'm not sure.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Jamie


Hardware List

Graphics Card
Gainward 6800GS BLISS PCI-E 512MB TV-DVI

Processor
Intel Pentium D 805 Socket 775 2.66GHz 2MB Cache

Motherboard
Asustek S775 Intel 955X ATX A L R

Hard Drives
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 120GB UDMA100
[for system software]

Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 400GB UDMA100 7200rpm 8MB
[for video files, one initially, intend on having two eventually.]

Memory
2 Gb of DDR II SDRAM

If this is budget-level... I'll go slid under my rock.

It looks like great specs to me, but you could save some money from the video card and get a better CPU.

I only called it budget level because almost the entire computer [minus case, keyboard, mouse, 2nd HDD, cooling fans etc....] is going to cost just a bit more than one of graphics cards Avid recommends on their site.

Jamie F

How is your computer building going, any chance of pics?

It's a best specs. But mihai is correct. If you go get better CPU. It's will be a best one.