Check my spec - Video editing build

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A friend of mine has asked me to suggest a build for him to do some video editing. No gaming so integrated gfx should be fine. So long as it will play 1080p video we are all good. Budget of around £600. I am assuming this does not include peripherals. If it does then I will have to think again. What about this:

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I have been an AMD man up until now so forgive me if I have gone wrong with the motherboard.

Does that look good?

Also if he plugs the hdd and ssd into ports 0 and 1 does that mean he can ignore any potential sandy b problems? He will not be wanting to take it apart and return the motherboard.
 
Thanks stulid. Should be room in the budget to get a better PSU. Will go for that.

It looks like 4.4GHz is a reasonable aim for the SB i5s (without going into too much depth). Do you think that mobo will handle that? I always feel a bit iffy buying anything off OCUK that does not have any reviews.
 
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Thanks stulid. Should be room in the budget to get a better PSU. Will go for that.

It looks like 4.4GHz is a reasonable aim for the SB i5s (without going into too much depth). Do you think that mobo will handle that? I always feel a bit iffy buying anything off OCUK that does not have any reviews.
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You cant overclock with the H67 chipset, you will just have to rely on the Turbo boost.

You cant use a P67 motherboard, as that wont handle the integrated gpu.

So you could leave the spec as it is, or get the non "K" cpu with a weaker integrated gpu?
 
The Antec 100 is narrower than the Antec 300 (197mm vs 205mm), I'm not saying the Titan Fenrir won't fit, but if I was you I'd do some more research into it, or hope someone else on here can confirm that it will fit.

Have you considered the Zalman Z9 Plus? It is only a few quid more expensive and I'd consider it to be a better case.

I'd also choose another power supply. My choice for a system without a graphics card would probably be the Antec Earthwatts Green EA-380D, which has 80Plus Bronze level efficiency. It doesn't come with a power cord.
 
stulid said:
You cant overclock with the H67 chipset, you will just have to rely on the Turbo boost.
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I was thinking that too. Even without the CPU being overclocked, the system will definitely be able to do video editing.

I would say that a decent ish graphics card could be used, I don't know how the integrated graphics are compared to quite cheap graphics cards. Motherboard has room for putting in a graphics card in the future though, so should that power supply too.
 
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now I dabbled in PC video editing a fair few years ago & this is what I was advised to do.

In my opinion CPU & the board are fine.

You need as much ram as the board will take (video editing software loves this) & a 64bit OS. (if not just get a 32bit OS & 4GB of ram)

You definitely need as much hard drive space as your budget can afford. Video files (especially 1080p ones) will eat hard drive space like candy.

I'd ditch the SSD & get this HD (small fast & cheap for the OS )

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-101-SA

& 2 of these.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-244-SE&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1279

1 for the original files.
1 to put the finished & edited files onto.

That's what I was advised to do (Its what Id change anyway) & that's if a lot of video editing is planned for this rig. Not done any large scale video editing on my PC for a while, so dunno if any general advice on Video editing PC spec requirements have changed since.
 
Grimley said:
now I dabbled in PC video editing a fair few years ago & this is what I was advised to do.

In my opinion CPU & the board are fine.

You need as much ram as the board will take (video editing software loves this) & a 64bit OS. (if not just get a 32bit OS & 4GB of ram)

You definitely need as much hard drive space as your budget can afford. Video files (especially 1080p ones) will eat hard drive space like candy.

I'd ditch the SSD & get this HD (small fast & cheap for the OS )

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-101-SA

& 2 of these.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-244-SE&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1279

1 for the original files.
1 to put the finished & edited files onto.

That's what I was advised to do (Its what Id change anyway) & that's if a lot of video editing is planned for this rig. Not done any large scale video editing on my PC for a while, so dunno if any general advice on Video editing PC spec requirements have changed since.
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Definitely agree with this although I would go for this as my main drive:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-081-SA&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=940

You won't see a drop in performance but gain a chunk of HDD space for a couple of quid more.

Please also be aware that OEM HDDs don't come with SATA cables so you may need to buy another one or two if your mobo doesn't come supplied with enough.
 
Thanks a lot for all the advice guys. I will definitely recommend he gets some more hard drive space. Maybe he should ditch the SSD, they are a bit of a luxury.

I had a massive chat with him last night and I think the outcome is that, since he has not managed to buy the new camera that he needs yet, he is going to hold off on getting the computer for a few months.

In a way I think this works well because in a few months the new series of sandy b motherboards should be out and also bulldozer could be an option.

Its also pretty sad because I dont get to play with all the kit that I cant afford! Oh well.

Thanks again for all the help.
 
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