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| Thread ID: 58786 | 2005-06-12 04:57:00 | New PC specs for video editing | Alison (2911) | Press F1 |
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| 363246 | 2005-06-13 23:45:00 | You should be able to buy and build a SFF PC for around $1,500 (not including cost of software) that can handle video-editing duties. I've recently put together a Soltek SFF PC with the following specs: Athlon64 3000+ (socket 939) Via K8T880 chipset 2x512MB dual channel memory Seagate 120GB SATA HDD 17" CMV LCD monitor LG dual layer 8x DVD burner Floppy drive With video-editing/rendering, the more memory the better. Big hard drives recommended as well as digital video files can be huge. The SFF box comes with two Firewire ports; the majority of digital video cameras support Firewire. The Soltek box also includes Gigabit ethernet port and the drive cage has slots for two 5 1/4" and two 3 1/2" drives so you can have two hard drives (+ floppy drive) or two optical drives in the Soltek computer. You may consider going with a Pentium 4 processor, because of the built-in Hyperthreading feature. Some video editing apps can take advantage of Hyperthreading, which will result in increased performance of the software. |
xmojo1 (4630) | ||
| 363247 | 2005-06-14 00:25:00 | Last time I checked 200GB HD's were the cheapest $per Mb. | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 363248 | 2005-06-14 01:37:00 | Off the top of my head I think P4's run encoding slower with HT enabled unless the program is specifly coded to run on a 2 cpu system, I would assume that the vast majority of home user video apps don't have this ability and the high end ones might even require a special lisence to make use of the extra capabilities. This isn't stated as fact though, Just something that might warrent looking into. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 363249 | 2005-06-14 02:15:00 | The P4s will still perform smoothly while doing a heavy CPU intensive task like encoding though. Like if you still want to do other work on the computer like surf webpages and so on, it will be a bit snappier with the hyper-threading. A cheap dual core P4 would even be good for video editing. E.g. Intel Pentium D 820 2.8GHz Dual Core for $392.63. |
E|im (87) | ||
| 363250 | 2005-06-14 03:01:00 | It looks like Nero 6 . 3 . 0 . 0 supports HT . And from 6 . 3 . 0 . 0 by the looks of it also supports AMD 64 bit CPU's . |
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