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wigster

wigster

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Hi

Im wanting a brand new pc but this time i want a better pc where i can edit, convert my HD and standard videos,one thing i will also need is a firewire port and it would be great to have wifi in it aswell,but thats not to important as im using a usb one right now. Also i will be editing phots with photoshop and lightroom.

Then the normal stuff watching hd films surfing the net with multiple tabs open.

I do have a budget of £1000,but would like it to be kept under if possible. not into gaming just listening to music.

cheers.
 
Ready made or self built?

Could do with another hard drive or 2 for video work but -

YOUR BASKET
1 x "OcUK Symphonia Plus" Intel Core i7 4790 3.6GHz Hyperthreaded Quad Core Audio System £467.51
- 1 x TP-Link 300Mbps Wireless N PCI Express Adapter (TL-WN881ND) £14.99
- 1 x Standard Build Systems - Dispatched within 7 working days £0.00
- 1 x MSI GeForce GT 610 SILENT Low Profile 1024MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £25.99
- 1 x Startech PCI1394MP Texas Instruments (TI) Chipset 4 Port PCI Firewire Card £19.99
- 1 x Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (WD1003FZEX) £64.99
- 1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £104.99
- 1 x TeamGroup Vulcan GOLD 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLYED316G1600HC9DC01) £91.99
- 1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £19.99
- 1 x NZXT H230 Classic Silent Midtower Case White £59.99
- 1 x Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GFC-02733) £79.99
- 1 x OcUK Standard System Warranty - 3 Year (24 Month C&R + 12 Month Labour) £0.00
Total : £950.42 (includes shipping : Ex.VAT).

 
Had to come of my phone and check it out on my PC,Looks fantastic just what i need i dont know if its over the top for my needs but seems to be future proof.

Im guessing all of what Cyanide has posted is what comes with the system.

Software will be Pinnacle Studio,Lightroom,photoshop Elements.
 
I'd probably go for a slightly better graphics card, as there's still £50 to spare and the GT610 is really bottom of the barrel so won't provide much benefit over the IGP.
 
Choose your graphics card very carefully as the older generation often outperform the newer ones for GPU acceleration in video editing programs as they're very slow to update their features.
 
Thanks for those tips about the gfx card.

I dont know if its late and im not seeing things right lol but Cyanide all of those things you linked is that allready with the system you linked or do i have to add them onto the system.

Cheers
 
wigster said:
Thanks for those tips about the gfx card.

I dont know if its late and im not seeing things right lol but Cyanide all of those things you linked is that allready with the system you linked or do i have to add them onto the system.

Cheers
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Already on there, I've just used the options to configure this one

Probably is a bit overkill but an i7 is going to future proof video editing a fair bit and it'll run nice and quiet :)
 
Got you thanks for that. :) Took me a bit of time seeing that you just tweaked the one you linked.

So that one would have no problem playing HD films streamed and thats on the pc.
 
wigster said:
Got you thanks for that. :) Took me a bit of time seeing that you just tweaked the one you linked.

So that one would have no problem playing HD films streamed and thats on the pc.
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It'll be able to edit and render HD films, not just play them back :D
 
silly me yea if its good enough to edit&render then it will be good enough to play HD films.

Ive still got a BenQ G2420HDBL,that will be fine with this new system?
 
dacads said:
Lightroom does however ;)

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/lightroom-gpu-faq.html
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Yep, but it doesn't always work that well. It took them almost 4 months to get OpenGL support to work on 6xxx and 7xxx series AMD cards as well as a few older Nvidia cards.

There's mixed reviews on it throughout the Adobe community, a lot of it comes down to the overall spec of your PC and what resolution you're editing at. In certain circumstances it can actually reduce performance over CPU only editing.
 
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