Posted by bernard.newnham on 12/27/30 11:33

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 It cost a lot and was out of
date in a few months, being overtaken by much cheap single processor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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