VIDEO EDITING PC BUILD SPEC

simon321

simon321

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Hie to everyone im a newbie,could u guys please please help put a spec for a tower only that would be capable of editing hd wedding videos around 8 hours footage using sony vegas.Iv started to venture out into wedding filming.Iv got the rest of the hardware like monitor,keyboard,mouse,
subwoofer etc...

Obviously the spec should only have items sold from overclockers that r currently in stock
 
£700 is great. you should be able to get a sandybridge with all the trimmings. do you need an operating system?

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anyone know how much an SSD would help with video editing?
 
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Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor with FREE Operation Flashpoint Red River Game £249.98

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850 Extreme 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **OcUK Exclusive** £114.98

MSI P67A-C45 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £99.98

Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £69.59

Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £49.99

OCZ StealthXStream 2 600W Power Supply £46.98

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS) £43.99

Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £15.98

Sub Total : £576.24
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
FREE SHIPPING (DPD Next Day)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : FREE
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £115.25
Total : £691.49

Something like that possibly?And then pick up a cheap version of Windows 7 64-bit somewhere
 
Reaper 392 said:
£700 is great. you should be able to get a sandybridge with all the trimmings. do you need an operating system?

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anyone know how much an SSD would help with video editing?
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SSD won't really help, neither will a graphics card. CPU is the bottleneck here.
 
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Energize said:
SSD won't really help, neither will a graphics card. CPU is the bottleneck here.
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CUDA not apply to video editing? (I genuinely don't know :p)

SSD would help load time of the software and loading time of the vids/transitions being applied, however
 
Cookeh said:
CUDA not apply to video editing? (I genuinely don't know :p)

SSD would help load time of the software and loading time of the vids/transitions being applied, however
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Depends on the software. Some use cuda some don't
Best to check the software that's being used to see of it will use the gpu

Certantly shouldn't Rule out a gpu. As they do tend to help with video and graphics applications and not just for gaming
 
Cookeh said:
CUDA not apply to video editing? (I genuinely don't know :p)

SSD would help load time of the software and loading time of the vids/transitions being applied, however
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Vegas doesn't really benefit from it, small increase in performance not worth the money, you're better putting the money towards a cpu cooler and overclocking it. Shaving a few seconds from the program loading time is also not worth the money.
 
Cycrow said:
i would swap out the GPU for an something NVIDIA

you can get a CUDA addon for sony vegas 10
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The latest updates for vegas support ATI cards. However gpu acceleration in vegas only works with one video format and the improvement is small ~10%, complete waste of money when you can buy a cooler for £30 and overclock the cpu by 50%.
 
since the debate is still going on
whats the final outcome of my spec since some r saying i should swap the gpu?

i dont need the dvd writer from the spec i got from sk82jack.iv got one already.
 
Well, SSD for OS and just to make PC that bit more responsive - will also help loading times with Vegas (if you don't want it, take it out and save £71 :p)

Gone with two HDDs, one for seek and one for write, read it's supposed to help render times, if not RAID0 will make them faster and give you more space :)

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor with FREE Operation Flashpoint Red River Game £249.98
1 x MSI P67A-C45 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £99.98
1 x OCZ Agility Series 60GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-1AGT60G) £71.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £69.59
2 x Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £42.98
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L7 530W Power Supply £39.98
1 x Antec 100 One Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £39.98
1 x Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM2+/AM3/LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366) £26.53
Total : £699.01 (includes shipping : £12.50).

EDIT: If you need OS, swap SSD out for W7 Home Premium OEM :)
 
simon321 said:
will this baby need overclocking or not?
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If your happy with it at stock speeds it should be fast enough if you don't know any different but oc'ing Sandy Bridge is real easy apparently, and if you still don't feel comfortable you could always get an MSI board and use there OC Genie feature where all you do is just press a button on the board and it will overclock it for you.
 
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