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Afternoon all,
My dad has recently expressed an interest in buying a new PC. In the near future he will be required to do some relatively amateur video editing - most likely at 720p as opposed to 1080p.
He is a fan of dell, and has seen the Inspiron 620MT. The specifications are as follows;
Intel® Core™ i5-2310 Processor (2.90GHz, 6MB)
6GB1 Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz
1500GB2 SATA hard drive (7200RPM)
NVIDIA® GeForce GT 530 1GB DDR3 Graphics Card
Blu-Ray ROM Drive (read/write CD/DVD & read Blu-Ray Disc)
The cost of the above is £600.
I believe he can get a much better rig for his money. I wonder if someone could suggest some alternatives. The GPU is fairly poor for a start.
Primarily it will be used as a general use PC, for watching youtube videos/general internet use/watching DVD's etc. However, as mentioned it will have to be able to fairly seamlessly edit 720p video. He does not game at all, although if he were to get into it it certainly wouldn't be BF3 or the like. He would want a Blu-Ray R/W.
I'm hesitant to build one for him, but in the right circumstances may be convinced.
He wouldn't be overclocking anything, would want something reasonably quiet and very reliable.
I wonder if anyone could put some ideas forwards? A couple of rigs would be lovely. Perhaps one that costs the same as the 620MT (£600), and one which just costs whatever you deem suitable for his needs? There's no point in him spending £600 on a PC if he won't use £200 worth of it, if you know what I mean.
Many thanks,
Rabbithutch.
Edit: He already has a monitor, peripherals and an OS. Only the tower is needed.
My dad has recently expressed an interest in buying a new PC. In the near future he will be required to do some relatively amateur video editing - most likely at 720p as opposed to 1080p.
He is a fan of dell, and has seen the Inspiron 620MT. The specifications are as follows;
Intel® Core™ i5-2310 Processor (2.90GHz, 6MB)
6GB1 Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz
1500GB2 SATA hard drive (7200RPM)
NVIDIA® GeForce GT 530 1GB DDR3 Graphics Card
Blu-Ray ROM Drive (read/write CD/DVD & read Blu-Ray Disc)
The cost of the above is £600.
I believe he can get a much better rig for his money. I wonder if someone could suggest some alternatives. The GPU is fairly poor for a start.
Primarily it will be used as a general use PC, for watching youtube videos/general internet use/watching DVD's etc. However, as mentioned it will have to be able to fairly seamlessly edit 720p video. He does not game at all, although if he were to get into it it certainly wouldn't be BF3 or the like. He would want a Blu-Ray R/W.
I'm hesitant to build one for him, but in the right circumstances may be convinced.
He wouldn't be overclocking anything, would want something reasonably quiet and very reliable.
I wonder if anyone could put some ideas forwards? A couple of rigs would be lovely. Perhaps one that costs the same as the 620MT (£600), and one which just costs whatever you deem suitable for his needs? There's no point in him spending £600 on a PC if he won't use £200 worth of it, if you know what I mean.
Many thanks,
Rabbithutch.
Edit: He already has a monitor, peripherals and an OS. Only the tower is needed.
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