Spec me a video converting rig :D

Aruffell · 29 Jan 2006 at 23:12

Bet you don't see a thread called that every day ^

I'm hopefully going to make this out of second hand parts and to keep it out the way, so shuttle seems the best bet.

I'm guessing for converting AVI's to DVD, intel will do it the quickest?

What kind of graphics card would i be needing?

A 9550 radeon would be fine, right?

That's all i need to know really

Thanks,

Andy

Aruffell · 30 Jan 2006 at 14:16

Anyone?

Baker · 30 Jan 2006 at 14:28

Intel will be fastest yes.

Graphics card not overly important also.

Ricochet J · 30 Jan 2006 at 15:04

REFERENCE DESCRIPTION QUANTITY PRICE COST
CP-094-IN Intel Pentium 4 630 "LGA775 Prescott" 3.0GHz (800FSB) with HT Technology - Retail (CP-094-IN) 1
£104.95 £104.95
FS-048-SH Shuttle XPC SB83G5M Aluminium Barebones System - Intel P4 (LGA775) (FS-048-SH) 1
£230.90 £230.90
MY-096-CS Corsair 2GB DDR2 Value Select PC4200 Dual Channel Kit (2x1GB) (VS2GBKIT533D2) (MY-096-CS) 1
£99.95 £99.95
HD-027-SA Samsung SpinPoint T HD300LD 300GB ATA-133 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-027-SA) 1
£77.95 £77.95
Subtotal £513.75
VAT £89.91
Total £603.66

On board video. Large capacity quiet HDD for storage and media. 2Gb RAM for memory hungry Media Apps. Wonderfully fast Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz. All in a barebone. Can't go wrong.

Ateapotist · 30 Jan 2006 at 15:51

Baker said:
Intel will be fastest yes.

Graphics card not overly important also.

I could argue with both those points.
Checkout the THG monster CPU charts for comparisons:
http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.html?modelx=33&model1=241&model2=211&chart=77
This particular one shows a P4 630 against a 3700 San Diego running Clone DVD.

Also it's still early days with it (beta I believe), but the ATI software that runs on X1*** series cards can encode video at something like 3x the speed of anything else. So an X1300 may be a good choice of video card?

Something to think about anyway.

Energize · 30 Jan 2006 at 15:58

Amds x2 cpus are faster than intels.

joeyjojo · 30 Jan 2006 at 20:46

Definitely go x2 or dual core opteron for video editing. Like Ateapotist said, the toms hardware charts shows dual core way ahead of anything intel. When proper dual core code comes out they'll be ultra fast.

Onboard graphics should be fine too.