New builder here so hope you all can give me some feedback please.
I’ve been reading all the posts looking for ideas and similar systems/usages and have listed what I think will do the job.
1. I’m not a gamer.
2. No overclocking intended.
3. Heaviest usages will be:
a. recording acoustic instruments
b. photograph manipulation and
c. Analogue and DV video capture, editing and output to DVD
First questions:
How critical is RAM for my purposes? I’m not clear on the differences, the ‘latency ratings’ etc.
Do I really need 2GB or would 1GB do ok or do I need ‘faster’?
Would a graphics card along the lines listed do ok?
Although I understand that USB2 is ‘faster’ then firewire, the preference in capturing from my DV Camcorder is to use the firewire (seems to work better, eg dropped frames etc.).
I was also considering an MSI P965-Platinum iP965, S775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 533/667/800, Sata II, Sata Raid, ATX as it has firewire, but it’s not on the product section of Overclockers so I guess I could just add a card to the Asus board?
Is ‘noise’ an issue I should be looking at?
Budget-wise, I just want what will do the business for now and can be beefed up as and when so, around the figure shown.
Btw, I have various monitors, an external 250GB HDD, keyboards etc
Sorry for all the questions in view of the numbers of ‘check spec’ requests and I’d be glad to have your thoughts – even if I’ve got to start thinking again from scratch.
Thank you for now.
.
CPU
Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
£129.24
Mobo
Asus P5B (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
£111.61
RAM
Corsair 2GB DDR2 Value Select PC5300 Dual Channel Kit (2x1GB) (VS2GBKIT667D2)
£164.49
GFX
BFG GeForce 7300 GT OC 256MB DDR2 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
£ 55.21
HDD
Western Digital Caviar RE 250GB 2500YS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
£ 58.74
DVD-RW
NEC ND7173 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer LabelFlash ReWriter (Silver) - OEM
£23.49
Case and PSU
Antec NSK6500 Super Midi Tower Case - 430W PSU (CA
£ 69.31
O/S
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition inc. SP2 -
£ 62.26
Total £674.35
I’ve been reading all the posts looking for ideas and similar systems/usages and have listed what I think will do the job.
1. I’m not a gamer.
2. No overclocking intended.
3. Heaviest usages will be:
a. recording acoustic instruments
b. photograph manipulation and
c. Analogue and DV video capture, editing and output to DVD
First questions:
How critical is RAM for my purposes? I’m not clear on the differences, the ‘latency ratings’ etc.
Do I really need 2GB or would 1GB do ok or do I need ‘faster’?
Would a graphics card along the lines listed do ok?
Although I understand that USB2 is ‘faster’ then firewire, the preference in capturing from my DV Camcorder is to use the firewire (seems to work better, eg dropped frames etc.).
I was also considering an MSI P965-Platinum iP965, S775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 533/667/800, Sata II, Sata Raid, ATX as it has firewire, but it’s not on the product section of Overclockers so I guess I could just add a card to the Asus board?
Is ‘noise’ an issue I should be looking at?
Budget-wise, I just want what will do the business for now and can be beefed up as and when so, around the figure shown.
Btw, I have various monitors, an external 250GB HDD, keyboards etc
Sorry for all the questions in view of the numbers of ‘check spec’ requests and I’d be glad to have your thoughts – even if I’ve got to start thinking again from scratch.
Thank you for now.
.
CPU
Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
£129.24
Mobo
Asus P5B (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
£111.61
RAM
Corsair 2GB DDR2 Value Select PC5300 Dual Channel Kit (2x1GB) (VS2GBKIT667D2)
£164.49
GFX
BFG GeForce 7300 GT OC 256MB DDR2 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
£ 55.21
HDD
Western Digital Caviar RE 250GB 2500YS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
£ 58.74
DVD-RW
NEC ND7173 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer LabelFlash ReWriter (Silver) - OEM
£23.49
Case and PSU
Antec NSK6500 Super Midi Tower Case - 430W PSU (CA
£ 69.31
O/S
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition inc. SP2 -
£ 62.26
Total £674.35
