Purchasing in 4 weeks - £1250 build spec for your consideration

pilsburypie · 20 May 2012 at 23:19

Firstly many thanks to all who have answered my questions. They have helped me a great deal in my understanding and choice. I'd much appreciate any further advice on my spec so I can mull it over in the coming few weeks before I pull the trigger.

Video and Photo editing machine:

Corsair Obsidian 550D
Asus P8Z77 V
Intel 3770K OC'd to 4.5Ghz
Phanteks PH-TC14PE cooler
16Gb (4x4) Corsair Vengance
650W Corsair TX series PSU
128Gb Crucial M4 SSD
3TB Seagate Baracuda HDD
LG BH10LS38 Blu ray RW
Microsoft windows 7 Professional 64bit

alpha2x · 20 May 2012 at 23:31

Not bad, whats your budget?

alpha2x · 20 May 2012 at 23:31

Also have you considered a secondary small SSD as as scratch disk?

Doomedspeed · 20 May 2012 at 23:41

Id get the venenge LP RAM if i were you, th tall heatsinks on the (non-lp) ram may clash with the PH-TC14PE. The switch in RAM won't reduce performance whatsoever.

Kitarist · 20 May 2012 at 23:55

Nice build

pilsburypie · 21 May 2012 at 09:59

Thanks for your replies - exactly what I was after - people in the know throwing ideas about

Budget: About where I'm at.... £1300. I'm obviously trying to get maximum bang for buck and a kick ass HD video/photo editing machine, but am I going to be seeing diminishing returns spending more? What do you think extra cash could provide performance wise?

A second small SSD as a scratch disk: Hmmm, could you explain the idea further? I assume I'll have my OS and programs on the 128Gb SSD, all my raw footage and photos on a large HDD and the small SSD scratch disk would be for works in progress, rendering etc due to the benefits of quick write speeds compared to HDD's? Then when renders/work is completed the files are moved to the HDD clearing the scratch disk for new projects? How does the transfer of files work from the scratch disk to the storage HDD? Is it just a manual cut and paste job or is there some automated transfer when the system is idle?

LP RAM: Yes, I was going to get this, just didn't put it in my spec - thanks for the spot though!

Klo · 21 May 2012 at 10:11

No gaming at all then??

Aren't some photo and video editing programs starting to become GPU accelerated?

pilsburypie · 21 May 2012 at 16:28

May seem strange but no gaming! I have a PS3 I use as a blu ray player/media server/media player and in 2 years I have played 1 game on it for about 20 mins! I'm just not a gaming person.

Yes I do believe some video editors are becoming GPU accelerated eg Sony Vegas which I do use. I have however read that the acceleration is limited. It still really is mainly hardcore processor usage. I was kinda thinking if it did want to use any GPU would it not turn to the IGP HD4000 of the i7 3770K? A graphics card would be a future consideration (if at all) and would a low end budget one would suffice? I currently have an ATI Radeon HD 3800 series GPU in my old Dell PC this is replacing. Would it be worth putting this in the new machine or is the IGP HD4000 better - It wouldn't surprise me if it was as this is now 5 years old and probably budget at the time!