Hi all,
Not been keeping up to speed with hardware for last few years as still happy with my XP3200 rig I built with parts from OCUK a few years back.
I want to start using Adobe Premiere though for video editing, and it requires a CPU that can support SSE2 instructions so it looks like upgrade time! With not keeping up to speed I'd welcome comments on the following rig i'm looking at;
In general it'll be a quad core system, with 8GB memory and running Vista (64bit).
Processor - Intel Core2 Quad - either Q6600 or Q9450 - not 100% sure overclocking a rig that is going to be doing video encoding for long periods.
Mobo - open to suggestions on this one as the choice is a bit overwhelming! HELP!
Graphics - 8800 GTS - Maybe the Asus model, I can always add another further down the line to SLI and increase performance - so mobo will need to be compatible!
Memory - again, open to suggestions given the choice - needs to be a total of 8GB for editing purposes - the 8GB options I've seen are normally 4*2GB so mobo will need to cope with this!
Storage - Maxtor Diamond Max 22 - 500GB SATA II drives - either two in a RAID 0 or possibly four in RAID 5 (can current mobo's support these options or am I better looking at a seperate card?)
Case/PSU - Antec Sonata III - have the original sonata and liked it - i'm not looking for massive cooling and i don't want lots of noise when i'm sat going over video footage! But will this case/psu cope with the above components!?
Monitor - Dell Ultrasharp 2408WFP 24" - should be able to fit all that adobe information onto the screen!
Concerns;
Not an 'avid' gamer but do play now and again - my XP3200/Geforce6800 will happily play most titles at max settings at 1280*1064 - but will the GTS8800 be able to run games such as HL2 at a res of 1920*1200 on the Dell widescreen monitor!?
Any info/guidance on the about would really be appreciated!
Thanks,
Justin.
Not been keeping up to speed with hardware for last few years as still happy with my XP3200 rig I built with parts from OCUK a few years back.
I want to start using Adobe Premiere though for video editing, and it requires a CPU that can support SSE2 instructions so it looks like upgrade time! With not keeping up to speed I'd welcome comments on the following rig i'm looking at;
In general it'll be a quad core system, with 8GB memory and running Vista (64bit).
Processor - Intel Core2 Quad - either Q6600 or Q9450 - not 100% sure overclocking a rig that is going to be doing video encoding for long periods.
Mobo - open to suggestions on this one as the choice is a bit overwhelming! HELP!
Graphics - 8800 GTS - Maybe the Asus model, I can always add another further down the line to SLI and increase performance - so mobo will need to be compatible!
Memory - again, open to suggestions given the choice - needs to be a total of 8GB for editing purposes - the 8GB options I've seen are normally 4*2GB so mobo will need to cope with this!
Storage - Maxtor Diamond Max 22 - 500GB SATA II drives - either two in a RAID 0 or possibly four in RAID 5 (can current mobo's support these options or am I better looking at a seperate card?)
Case/PSU - Antec Sonata III - have the original sonata and liked it - i'm not looking for massive cooling and i don't want lots of noise when i'm sat going over video footage! But will this case/psu cope with the above components!?
Monitor - Dell Ultrasharp 2408WFP 24" - should be able to fit all that adobe information onto the screen!
Concerns;
Not an 'avid' gamer but do play now and again - my XP3200/Geforce6800 will happily play most titles at max settings at 1280*1064 - but will the GTS8800 be able to run games such as HL2 at a res of 1920*1200 on the Dell widescreen monitor!?
Any info/guidance on the about would really be appreciated!
Thanks,
Justin.
