Dad's PC

ukchap

ukchap

ukchap

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Hello

I hope you don't mind offering a few suggestions.

My retired dad videos a lot of sports matches and edits the videos for training for referees. He is doing this at a regional/national level so spends a lot of time editing and then encoding the videos. His PC is getting a bit long in the tooth and he also wants to move to a HD camera and distributing on Blue Ray.

I have been thinking about buying him a PC but his want list is a bit esoteric so I have been moving towards building one for him. I am not terribly up to date with current kit but have built a PC before in the Pentium II days. I've since moved to MacBooks and not opened a PC case for 6 years or more.

Budget is fairly flexible, but it has to be reliable and long lasting. He never plays any games or does anything more than what I have mentioned here. I know he wants the following:

Case with 4 or more hard drive bays
Case with space for 2 or more optical drives
Card reader would be useful
On board sound would be fine
Gigabit ethernet
Quadcore, I think
Windows 7
Plenty of USB slots for external drives


Monitor, keyboard, mouse all not needed

That is all I can think of. No idea what type of graphics card he needs. He has a decent monitor at the moment but may move to dual monitors in the future.

Thank you very much for your time.

R
 
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get a gigabyte ud5 with an i7, go for as much ddr3 RAM as you can get. Id look at the haf 922 - i can personaly recommend it with 5 optical drive bays, 5 HDD bays and plenty of stock cooling for what he needs. Id change the stock cpu cooler but the ud5 comes with dual gigabit connections and dolby home theatre onboard sound. pick one of the more up to date graphics cards such as ati's 5000 series or look for eyefinity if you want a nvidia card. The motherboard has space for up to 3 graphics cards so crossfire etc would also be an option allowing you to use cheaper cards but more of them. hope these ideas give you some idea as to what to look out for.
 
I hope you don't mind me bouncing this for the midweek crowd.
What graphics card would people suggest?
He uses Adobe CS, Premier Pro, and a couple of other DVD authoring packages.
What are the issues with CUDA graphics cards

Any thoughts on 32 vs 64 bit?
He probably won't upgrade any of his software, just wants a faster PC.

Thank you
 
64 bit to be able to use all the RAM

I'd go for something like either a 5770 or a GTX260 card

Video editing means you'll want at least a quadcore CPU
Lemin's idea isn't that bad.

We'd need to know your max budget though. The more you can afford the more we'll future proof your da's PC ;)
 
Unless he is using encoding software that is graphics accelerated there is no point getting a fancy graphics card. Either get a bog standard DVI card or get a motherboard with onboard graphics.

How about this:
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I have included a blu-ray RW (does he need that?)

Are you going to be happy to overclock it for him / will he do it. If not you might want to go for this instead.

Also slightly cheaper to go with the titan fenrir cooler instead of the baram since it comes with a fan.
 
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He mainly uses Premier Pro I think.

Thank you for the spec, I'll have a look at the components. He will want a Blue-Ray RW.

I don't think I would know where to start with overclocking.

Thanks again.
 
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The 1055T would kind of be wasted in my opinion if it is not overclocked. There are lots of people on this forum that would help you get going overclocking but if you dont have the time / inclination then how about this:

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