VIDEO EDITING PC BUILD SPEC

[Brumboy]

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 )

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

Where's the graphics card? I thought you could only use the Intel Intergrated Graphics with a H67 motherboard? But you can't overclock a i7 2600k on a H67 board. I don't think a graphics card will make a difference in the speed of encoding your HD files so go for a cheap graphics card.

I highly recommend overclocking the i7 2600k. You can buy a good CPU cooler like the Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus CPU Cooler for £20 and I'm fairly sure you can overclock to at least 4.5 Ghz which will give you a good speed boost when encoding video's. Oh and I don't think you would need a SSD for your needs needs, you might aswell stick with one fast HDD and if you need a OS then use the money to buy Windows 7 instead.

 

[Surveyor]

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 )

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

Won't some sort of graphics card be needed?

 

[simon321]

Just found out the Antec case is out of stock-which replacement can i get?

And also which graphics card can i add to go with the spec?

 

[Energize]

Yes there needs to be a graphics card, that motherboard doesn't have onboard.

 

[Cookeh]

Fair point indeed, meant the H67 version That ofc would also rule out overclocking.

 

[simon321]

so can i get a spec for the graphics card and the case?

 

[Brumboy]

Depends on your budget, I have the Xigmatek Asgard Midi Tower Case which cost me £30 and it's good quality for the price. You can install 3 fans aswell if you require some extra cooling.

Regarding the GPU, if it's purely for video encoding and you don't want to go over your budget then just go for:

MSI GeForce 8400GS 512MB SILENT GDDR3 "Low Profile" PCI-Express Graphics Card - £30

OcUK GeForce GT 430 1024MB GDDR3 Low Profile PCI-Express Graphics Card - £56

Literally the cheapest graphics cards on OCuk. But then again it won't matter as you don't plan to play games on this system

 

[Surveyor]

Where's the graphics card? I thought you could only use the Intel Intergrated Graphics with a H67 motherboard? But you can't overclock a i7 2600k on a H67 board. I don't think a graphics card will make a difference in the speed of encoding your HD files so go for a cheap graphics card.

I highly recommend overclocking the i7 2600k. You can buy a good CPU cooler like the Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus CPU Cooler for £20 and I'm fairly sure you can overclock to at least 4.5 Ghz which will give you a good speed boost when encoding video's. Oh and I don't think you would need a SSD for your needs needs, you might aswell stick with one fast HDD and if you need a OS then use the money to buy Windows 7 instead.

Nice edit there after I posted about a graphics card

 

[simon321]

so the graphics card is sorted what about the case?

 

[sk82jack]

Depends on how much you got left and what you like the look, case is more personal preference I think. What about:

Coolermaster Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black £33.98

Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £49.99

Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black £44.99

Couple of choices there. Have a look through OcUK's cases and write down any you like and someone will be able to give you advantages/disadvantages of each one.

 

[Punce]

I'm after a video editing PC too. However, I'm using Adobe Premiere CS5 that uses CUDA, and a choice of GPU is important if you want better speeds.
There's quite a bit of discussion about this over on the Adobe forums... for example: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/841647?tstart=0

 

[simon321]

Hey guys i went to pick up my kit in stoke on trent,now i want to post pictures of my build
Question how to i attach pictures to my post?

 

[sk82jack]

Create an account with an image hosting company such as ImageShack and then upload your photos. Find out the urls of the photo and then click on the 'Insert Image' button in the forum and paste in the url of the image file. Hope that makes sense.