encoding

Jay Bee · 5 Dec 2008 at 12:36

Have been out of the building loop for severel years now as spec shows, tried to encode video recently and came to the conclusion that it is time to bite the bulet and build a better machine, so here we go again spec please for a machine to encode video do a bit of photo editing and some vector drawing,
use what can reused from existing tower, around £200ish to spend, could go more but pennies bit tight at the mo

feriso · 5 Dec 2008 at 12:47

Keep your hard drives if you want but could do the following

Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Gigabyte GA-G33-DS3R Intel G33 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard Gigabyte GA-G33-DS3R Intel G33 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £71.99
(£82.79) £71.99
(£82.79)
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2200 "LGA775 Core 2" 2.20GHz (800FSB) - Retail Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2200 "LGA775 Core 2" 2.20GHz (800FSB) - Retail £43.99
(£50.59) £43.99
(£50.59)
OcUK GeForce 8400 GS 256MB DDR2 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail OcUK GeForce 8400 GS 256MB DDR2 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £21.99
(£25.29) £21.99
(£25.29)
Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C5 TwinX (2x1GB) Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C5 TwinX (2x1GB) £18.99
(£21.84) £18.99
(£21.84)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Low Profile CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2) Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Low Profile CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2) £10.99
(£12.64) £10.99
(£12.64)
Sub Total : £167.95
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DHL @ Home Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £8.49
VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £26.47
Total : £202.91

And you can clock the cpu to even higher to help

A quad would help but is a bit out of your price range

CaseyChaos · 5 Dec 2008 at 12:54

does he not want some arctic silver in there? hate the generic stuff that comes in retail cpus

reflux · 5 Dec 2008 at 12:56

feriso said:
Keep your hard drives if you want but could do the following

Drop the GPU, the mobo has integrated graphics = £25 saved

CaseyChaos · 5 Dec 2008 at 13:01

reflux said:
Drop the GPU, the mobo has integrated graphics = £25 saved

depends if he's only using it for the encoding, for the sake of £25 i'd bung in the gfx, unless he'd be happy with the integrated gfx and thinks he'd be able to save up some more money in a few months and get a proper one

PwnDirect · 5 Dec 2008 at 13:51

feriso said:
A quad would help but is a bit out of your price range

nope

cpu

hsf

mobo

ram

£213.87 inc VAT

post a bit more & get free postage

feriso · 5 Dec 2008 at 14:19

Good call : I suppose if the OP has encoding software made for multi core cpus then that might be the way to go.