Spec me up for HDV editing?

wsurfa

wsurfa

wsurfa

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Finally decided to upgrade the existing X2 3800 with the main aim being a fair amount of photoshop and premiere work. Video will be HDV, so quite a memory and cpu basher.

I've got the case, a hyper580psu and monitor already. So stuff needed cpu, m'board, memory, GPU, hard drives, cooler.

I'm assuming quad core and pretty flex on £, but if it looks to go above c£5/600 then I might give thought to going completely mad and buying a mac pro (as I should be able to source PS and Final Cut relatively cheaply).

I'd also want it to be pretty quiet, and would OC it.

Thanks for any help
 
This might do you although I don't know exactly how quiet the graphics card cooler is.

Abit IP35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £69.99
(£82.24) £69.99
(£82.24)
Samsung SpinPoint T 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD501LJ) £56.99
(£66.96) £56.99
(£66.96)
Noctua NH-U12P CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/LGA775) £35.99
(£42.29) £35.99
(£42.29)
Samsung SH-S203D 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
(£17.61) £14.99
(£17.61)
OcUK ATI Radeon HD 3850 Pro 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £82.99
(£97.51) £82.99
(£97.51)
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - OEM £133.99
(£157.44) £133.99
(£157.44)
G.Skill 4GB DDR2 PQ PC2-6400C5 (2x2GB) CAS5 Dual Channel Kit (F2-6400CL5D-4GBPQ) £49.99
(£58.74) £49.99
(£58.74)
Sub Total : £444.93
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £8.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £79.43
Total : £533.31
 
thanks - looks good. I'll need to procrastinate a while as the mac pro option is also looking quite attractive (although c 3x the price !)
 
I see there is only 1 HDD in there.

For any kind of video editing you need a minimum of 2 drives .... 1 input ... 1 output

Example.

Using VOB2MPG to convert some DVD VOB to standard Mpgs...

Same drive ~ 20MB/s

Drive 1 to Drive 2 ~ 70MB/s and a lot easier on the drives.

Even a Quad is probably overkill, but why not... they're cheap.

Also ... Assume you have a 64bit OS to take care of 4GB ?
 
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