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Looking to kit out a new fairly multipurpose PC for:
- Hyperfast media encoding and video editing.
- Very fast document indexing.
- 1080p / bluray playback through a large screen
- Running 2 or 3 virtual machines, possibly under hyper-V (this is for my work).
- Possibly running Windows Home Server in a virtual machine (i.e. rather than lavishing a whole machine on it).
Probably want to get into gaming more and more later on. I may start with a fairly basic card (4770 or 4870) but maybe upgrade to 2 faster cards down the line, playing through a large LCD TV. May also want to hook up my guitar at some point so may look to get the Asus Xonar D2X (and a DAC to hook up to my hifi, again later on).
I would also like the system to run as quiet as possible. No water-cooling, maybe overclocking -- but in general, as low-maintenance as possible.
However, everything's still up for grabs as far as the case, choice of processor, graphics card, amount and type of memory, etc., is concerned.
I haven't built a system before so it would be nice if there isn't too much b*ggering around fitting things together, it runs fast and quiet, and it still has plenty of expansion options (SATA, PCI, PCI-e) down the line, and plenty of USB ports round the back.
Help??!
Also, are Overclockers reasonable about returns if I mess something up?
- Hyperfast media encoding and video editing.
- Very fast document indexing.
- 1080p / bluray playback through a large screen
- Running 2 or 3 virtual machines, possibly under hyper-V (this is for my work).
- Possibly running Windows Home Server in a virtual machine (i.e. rather than lavishing a whole machine on it).
Probably want to get into gaming more and more later on. I may start with a fairly basic card (4770 or 4870) but maybe upgrade to 2 faster cards down the line, playing through a large LCD TV. May also want to hook up my guitar at some point so may look to get the Asus Xonar D2X (and a DAC to hook up to my hifi, again later on).
I would also like the system to run as quiet as possible. No water-cooling, maybe overclocking -- but in general, as low-maintenance as possible.
However, everything's still up for grabs as far as the case, choice of processor, graphics card, amount and type of memory, etc., is concerned.
I haven't built a system before so it would be nice if there isn't too much b*ggering around fitting things together, it runs fast and quiet, and it still has plenty of expansion options (SATA, PCI, PCI-e) down the line, and plenty of USB ports round the back.
Help??!
Also, are Overclockers reasonable about returns if I mess something up?