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Posted by AmbrA on 10/27/84 11:33
well, now I am confused....
just couple of days ago someone on this newsgroup mentioned that replacing
single core CPU with dual core increased his rendering speed aorund 8
times!?!....since I am into getting a video editing system, as I sadi
previously, I am confused :)
peace..ned
<bernard.newnham@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:1133562630.465170.228070@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> As you're working with DV, you're worrying too much - even your basic
> Dell will cope easily. Build whatever suits your budget - nothing you
> can buy these days will fail to cope.
>
> 1/ CPU - dual core, no point - unless your doing very serious effects,
> even then the benefits won't be that great. Personally I use Athlons
> because they're cheaper.
>
> 2/ video card - any medium price card. If you want one with dual DVI,
> get that. You don't need to spend $300. Currently I have various
> versions of ATI 9600s, but a while back I was using GeForce. Didn't
> make any difference to the quality of editing.
>
> 3/ Other hardware.
> Any case that will fit the motherboard and number of drives you want.
> They're all different and all the same.
> Power supply - 500W is well more than you'll need.
> Motherboard - pick a manufacturer - Giga-Byte, ASUS, whatever - go
> through the website and pick one with the facilities you actually need,
> and buy that. You won't need to spend a huge amount.
> Get lots of RAM (which you haven't mentioned) at least 1G - you don't
> need fancy types, just the usual DDR SDRAM stuff..
> Buy some decent speakers (ditto). If you don't plan on fancy audio fx
> - Dolby multichannel or whatever, use the onboard sound system - but
> never forget that sound is often more important than the picture.
>
> .. and blah blalh blah ---- In the past I've built a PC for people who
> insisted on dual processors for editing. It cost a lot and was out of
> date in a few months, being overtaken by much cheap single processor
> systems. We could have spent half the money and used the other half to
> build another system. Cutting edge hardware isn't the most important
> thing for editing - a good person operating it is.
>
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