Video Editing Spec - Adobe Premiere Elements

atopher

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I’m speccing a PC for my brother-in-law, primarily for editing HD quality videos with Adobe Premiere Elements. His current PC is a 5 year old Dell (Pentium dual core 3ghz I think) and it just cannot handle the HD videos.

Budget is about £600. All we really need is the case/MB/Processor/PSU & memory, win7 & maybe a speedy HDD. Everything else I’m hoping to rip out of the old Dell and will upgrade as and when budget allows.

Can anyone offer any advice on the spec required editing – I’ve plucked this out based on this post earlier today:
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Does this look OK....and is it worth the extra cash for an overclocked bundle? Should I be considering a dedicated graphics card?

I work in IT (Software Developer) but I have to admit that while I’m confident in building the PC, a lot of the gaming/overclocking stuff is out of my league!

Thanks for any advice.

Chris
 
will you not need a graphics card? i imagine the one in the dell isnt up to the job and may even be agp not pci
 
I think it would be worth considering a graphics card, have a look at this article.

You can currently get a gtx 470 for £150 from ocuk, that said - you don't even need to spend that much - the gts 450 (~£90) shows a big performance jump compared to cpu encoding in that test (though i believe you will have to run this hack).
 
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Wow you lot are quick!!

Thanks for the Toms Hardware link...v useful.....so looks as though investment in the graphics card would be worthwhile.
 
cmndr_andi said:
I think it would be worth considering a graphics card, have a look at this article.

You can currently get a gtx 470 for £150 from ocuk, that said - you don't even need to spend that much - the gts 450 (~£90) shows a big performance jump compared to cpu encoding in that test (though i believe you will have to run this hack).
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Would you not have to upgrade the Power Supply for a GTX 470? Running a i7 2600k and a 470 is going to want more than 500W?
 
TheGedi said:
Would you not have to upgrade the Power Supply for a GTX 470? Running a i7 2600k and a 470 is going to want more than 500W?
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The GTX 470 would probably be OK with the cx 500W - the GTX 470 draws a maximum of 215W - though going for something a bit more beefy like this wouldn't be a bad idea.

However, if the main task is just video editing then I would probably just go with the GTS 450 (and use the "hack" I mentioned") - it costs less but still performs great and uses a lot less power and kicks out much less heat.
 
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