New computer for HD video editing

Silenty

Silenty

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Hey everyone.

Im trying to make a kit for my friend.. He needs a computer for a bit gaming else editing hd videos recorded with his sony hdr cx305e..

Heres a guess:



Any upgrades, comments and exchanges are welcome :D
 
Looks like a good build. I don't know much on video editing myself other than it needs a good cpu and lots of RAM. The 8GB G.Skill should definitely do the job, as well as the 2600K i7. I would have thought of a small Solid State to go in there for the OS and the editing program(s) but im unsure. Wait for somebody else to post but I see no problem with that =). you MIGHT need a slightly bigger power supply but I doubt it.
 
You need a P67 mobo if you want to OC, that HDd is more of a sotrage drive than boot, imo youve gone OTT on cooler, and that gfx card isnt upto much, you wont be able to game on it, gimme a sec ill do a spec for you

OK, assuming £800 to be budget, then with focus on HD editing

Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £263.99
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 460 OC 768MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £119.99
GeIL 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz VALUE PLUS Dual Channel (GVP38GB1600C9DC) £89.99
MSI P67A-C45 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) £89.98
Samsung SH-B123L/RSBP 12x BD-ROM / 16x DVD Writer Drive - Black (Retail) £57.98
BeQuiet Pure Power L7 530W Power Supply £46.99
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM 1yr Warranty (ST31000518AS) £37.99
Coolermaster Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black £35.99
Akasa AK-CCX-4002HP Venom CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM3) £35.74
Sub Total : £648.86
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.50
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £131.87
Total : £791.23

Here youre getting an overclockable mobo, much better gfx (capable of gaming) a faster HDD (though half as much space - if 2Tb is needed get 2 of these) a better case and an allround more balanced system (no point spending £70 on a cooler and £20 on a case for example)

Another option would be to drop the cpu back to the i5 2500k and spend that extra on an even better gfx card, such as the 560, the 768mb 460 will allow light - medium gaming, it depends how much your mates focus is going to be on gaming vs editing, the 430 you included originally would just about cope with solitaire and not much else (OK an exaggeration but its not a gaming card)
 
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You can save some money by choosing the non K version as I believe you can't overclock on the H67 boards.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-359-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=1859

Edit:

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £263.99
(£219.99) £263.99
(£219.99)
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 460 OC 768MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £119.99
(£99.99) £119.99
(£99.99)
GeIL 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz VALUE PLUS Dual Channel (GVP38GB1600C9DC) £89.99
(£74.99) £89.99
(£74.99)
MSI P67A-C45 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) £89.98
(£74.98) £89.98
(£74.98)
Samsung SpinPoint F4 EcoGreen 2TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD204UI) £64.98
(£54.15) £64.98
(£54.15)
BeQuiet Pure Power L7 530W Power Supply £46.99
(£39.16) £46.99
(£39.16)
Antec 100 One Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £41.99
(£34.99) £41.99
(£34.99)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HJ) £32.99
(£27.49) £32.99
(£27.49)
Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £26.53
(£22.11) £26.53
(£22.11)
LiteOn IHAS124-19 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
(£11.66) £13.99
(£11.66)
Sub Total : £659.51
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.25
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £134.15
Total : £804.91
 
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I can see your all choosed some ram with higher speed. How come when the mb dosent support that speed?
Sadly as it is have I never really oc'ed :(.. Really need to study that thou :D
 
First post, so go easy on me....

I agree, at least 2 HDD's is essential.

With regards to graphics card, out and out guts isn't the most important thing, but size and speed of memory is - particularly if you are using Adobe Premiere Pro CS5+ (which has the Mercury playback engine, and can be accelerated by NVidia compatible* nVidia cards).

*The officially compatible cards list is quite small (and expensive), but take a look here and you can see that actually many other cards can be made to work.​

As a bare minimum the card needs to have 1GB of RAM, and as tests show (on site link above) DDR5 RAM performs much faster than DDR3. Therefore I would get the cheapest Premiere compatible card you can, which has 1GB of DDR5 - For me this was a GTS 450.

With regards to HDD's I can thoroughly recommend SSD's as system boot drives, they give a massive performance boost in general computer use, and make the whole experience much more pleasurable.

I have had my 2500K + MSI P67A + GTS 450 + 8GB for just over a week. I've already overclocked the chip to 4.5Ghz (which was pretty easy after reading the info on here) and I have been very pleased with the results I have seen.
 
Just to add, Sandybridge's don't generate too much heat (certainly compared to my old AMD chip) so from what I've read water cooling isn't essential. I am using a Venom cooler which sites at about 35deg idle and 55-60deg under full load when OC'd to 4.5Ghz @ 1.31v.
 
Thanks for all the answers :D..

Just one last question. How come your all choosed to use DDR3 PC3-12800 when 12800 isnt supported by the mb? In the specification details does it say 10666 instead
 
Sh4rkie said:
Consider more ram and get a second hdd so he isn't reading and writing to the same drive.
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I always reccomend a bog standard smallish system drive (or even SSD if you're feeling flush) for OS and applications then totally seperate media drives.

The Samsung F4 ecodrive would be fine for this, just checked that Cameras data rate and at its highest setting (1080p) is 24Mbs (or 3MBs). You'd easily be able to do four or more concurrent streams on the F4. It seems to have an average transfer rate around the 100MBs mark. Also has the advantage of being quiet and cool and allows you to shoehorn more terabytes in your machine if required.

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