New Spec Required-Video Editing

big.rich1976

big.rich1976

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Hey guys,


Need some advice, My father in law has given me the task of building him a new machine solely used for video editing. He currently has a Pentium D system that is struggling and would imagine we will be going down the I5/I7 route Obviously this system will need to come with oodles of disk space and ram but wat is troubling me is what graphics card to use. He is not a games player at all but would the ATI/Nvidia games cards offer enough clout to be able to process hidef video. As an example a hi def clip will currently take about 30 secs just to open up. As i said he has a pentium D with 2gb of ram. his budget is a max of 1000 pounds. This will be hardware only and no need for software of monitor.

Thanks
 
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The Quad core will help with encoding + the 1GB on the video card should rip through HD bits and bobs.
 
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has a Hex core cpu for fast encoding.

8Gb of ram which video encoding eats up.

a fast 64gb SSD and 2Tb of storage.

and the CUDA cores of the Nvidia card will massively help encoding speed if programs support it, the amounty of ram on a graphics card has nothing to do with it.

see how the £140 hex core cpu beats a i7 920(which apart from a multiplier less is identical to a 930) at all the relavent tasks http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/147?vs=47
 
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I'd wait for the 970 price drop to £450, you don't have that extra £ to play with but it is certainly a lot better for video encoding
 
stulid said:
almost half the budget just on the cpu? thats just LOL
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you buy the best for the job if you can afford it

BTW it will cost a bit more than the £1k budget if you go with the 970 and 460 1GB, or just under if you use a 9800GT instead of the 460 and a 2TB HDD instead of a 1TB one, however it will give you a very nice boost over the 930 or 1055T
 
didn't it only win on the 1st Pass x264 HD encode?
Its a shame that doesn't have the 930, its clock is 2.80Ghz which might even it up.
 
For video editing grab a Nvidia card... as a lot of programs use cuda.

I7 or from what i read a AMD x6.. I would go with something like this
(raid 0 the 2 1tb drives) (12gb Ram)

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This is similar to my video editing system apart from this has a better graphics card mines only 9800gt

I mostly use Sony vegas 9c,vue 8 pro studio,adobe after effects 7,it runs them all really well.

You cant really go wrong with either an Amd 1055t or intel 920/930.

A lot of video conversion encoding programs make use of the extra cores which gives the Amd a very slight advantage in some things.

if your really want to spend the whole £1000 you could add an ssd as a boot drive and upgrade the graphics card to a gtx460
 
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