Spec me please, for a music/video editing pc

jamieakabubble · 19 Aug 2008 at 23:51

Right i have a friend who is looking to to get a pc and im the lucky guy to build it yay! well she is a musican and will be making music using mixers and a keyboard, all connected via USB and Firewire. She wants to make music and do video animation. The only thing that i dont need it a monitor as she wants to connect it to her 40" TV.
The program she will be using is Logic and its a massive 34GB program lol. Well she has about £1000 to spend and this does not include anything else except the PC itself and a keyboard and mouse.
She needs a smallish case that is plain and is either white, silver or shiney black.
I have looked around and i have made my own little spec and see what you guys fink.

Thermaltake VB1000SNS Soprano SuperMidi Tower - Silver
Logitech Cordless Desktop EX110 (967561-1120)
Asus P5E3 Intel X38 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard
Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI - Retail
Enermax Pro 82+ 625W EPR625AWT ATX2.3 Silent PSU
Asus Xonar D2X 7.1 PCI-Express Sound Card - Retail
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 LGA775 'Yorkfield' 2.50GHz 6MB-cache - Retail
Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103UJ)
Corsair 4GB DDR3 DHX 1333C9DHX Twin3X (2x2GB) (TW3X4G1333C9DHX)
Asus DRW-2014L1T 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter - OEM
Scythe Card Reader & Floppy Drive - Black

What do you think?

benjo · 19 Aug 2008 at 23:56

Looks good, although does she really need a 4870 for music production? Might be able to drop that down a bit and get a faster Quad.

jamieakabubble · 20 Aug 2008 at 00:04

i was questioning it because she wants to use her 40" tv and will be video editing and video annimation.

Chimerical · 20 Aug 2008 at 00:09

Do you need DDR3?

That Q9300 isn't very good. Q6600 is cheaper and better and has 2mb more cache.

If it's possible to save in other areas, I'd suggest using (the savings) on the extra money needed for the Antec P182:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...per Midi Tower Case - No PSU (Gun Metal Black)

Awesome case and keeps components nice and cold.

jamieakabubble · 20 Aug 2008 at 00:11

well the ddr3 is for the prgrams she will be using, i was tempted 2 get 4gb ddr2 800mhz..... or maybe 8GB as there will be a lot of editing etc.

Aslo the cpu i was going for a more updated version but if that will be fine then i like it

cheaper is beter haha

Helios1234 · 20 Aug 2008 at 00:13

Maybe go for a cheap 4850 instead.

jamieakabubble · 20 Aug 2008 at 00:15

im very interested in a 4850 but would it handle the 40" tv and video editing????

benjo · 20 Aug 2008 at 00:18

jamieakabubble said:
im very interested in a 4850 but would it handle the 40" tv and video editing????

Yeh it will. I presume the resolution would be 1280x720, which isn't a lot to recent cards, especially as it's just going to be desktop work. As for video editing, it'll all be CPU usage anyway, the graphics card wont come into it at all.

jamieakabubble · 20 Aug 2008 at 00:21

no the resolution is 1920 x 1080 that she will be using the GFX card for. so if the 4850 can handle this then all is good in the hood haha

Jiffy · 20 Aug 2008 at 03:28

Is it Logic Studio she uses? From what I've seen, the latest version is Mac only so is it an older version she's using?

EDIT: Yeah, it looks like only the pre 2003 version runs on PCs. That's worth checking as there's no point building a PC when she needs a Mac!

jamieakabubble · 20 Aug 2008 at 10:48

ive spoke to her and she told me the logic program she already has is for pc so it must be an older one. thanks for been on the ball with that lol i aint got a clue with music and video editing!