Alternative to Mac i7

Trackbikes · 19 Sep 2010 at 10:46

I've recently been doing quite a bit of video rendering and creation. It's taking my current pc a q6600 with 4 gb of ram , 3 hours to render a 1 minute after effects intro.

I have been considering a switch to a 27 inch i7 Mac but I am too used to creating high spec PC's for a lot less !

If I decide to build a new PC it will need to be quite and powerful , I'll probably also go for 2, 22 inch monitors so I'll need a dual head Video card.

Any suggestions for processor, ram, hdd, mobo and video card?

Freddie589 · 19 Sep 2010 at 10:47

whats your budget?
and any personal needs like intel not amd etc..?

stulid · 19 Sep 2010 at 10:49

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
AMD Phenom II X6 Six Core 1055T 2.80GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £159.99
(£136.16) £159.99
(£136.16)
Palit GeForce GTX 460 768MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £122.19
(£103.99) £122.19
(£103.99)
Asus M4A87TD/USB3 AMD 870 (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £86.99
(£74.03) £86.99
(£74.03)
Corsair Dominator 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMD4GX3M2A1600C9) £76.36
(£64.99) £152.72
(£129.98)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £35.24
(£29.99) £35.24
(£29.99)
Sub Total : £474.15
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.50
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £84.64
Total : £568.29

hex core cpu, 8gb ram and a Nvidia gpu with CUDA support.

Xelene · 19 Sep 2010 at 11:12

Most of the costs in the iMac are the extremely good 27" screen. They aren't that uncompetitive. They aren't any better for Adobe CS tho.

stoke1863 · 19 Sep 2010 at 11:22

sldsmkd said:
Most of the costs in the iMac are the extremely good 27" screen. They aren't that uncompetitive. They aren't any better for Adobe CS tho.

This!

You maybe be able to spec an awsome PC but the cost of that lovely 27" screen is the killer.