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| Thread ID: 119662 | 2011-08-03 09:52:00 | Building my own PC for video editing | aonghas (12649) | Press F1 |
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| 1220802 | 2011-08-03 13:57:00 | He (we) are still looking for a case, he is considering a full tower with at least 6 drive bays, any mid-towers we have looked at so far with 6 bays seem a little cramped for space and air flow. Hes a bit of a fussy bugger about it, doesnt want an ugly gamers case and it has to be shiny black :D He was saying that approx 1 min of movie uses 2 gigs of space I seem to remember, no idea what format he is using, but there cant be much if any compression. I guess if you have a few movies on file at a time that is being worked on, it would suck up space rather fast. The graphics card you are looking at says it requires a minimum of a 600W PSU with a 6 pin and 8 pin power connector, so make sure your power supply has them. There doesnt sound like much of a reserve if its being maxed out by the time you supply power to the rest of the components (CPU probably requires 95W or so under load). You may want to do a bit more research to see if your 720W is sufficient. Cheers |
Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1220803 | 2011-08-03 14:42:00 | If I record in HD / MP4 off this tuner, most movies are around 4 GB an hr / a GB every 15 mins | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1220804 | 2011-08-03 19:02:00 | IMO the Cooler Master CM690 II case is a nice case with some added benefits. See here; www.coolermaster.com Can be bought in NZ for $199 www.pcforce.co.nz I have the original version and it's a great case for what I need. |
Tukapa (62) | ||
| 1220805 | 2011-08-03 20:03:00 | Is that just a personal opinion? My PSU is a 720W Infiniti Enermax, No it's not a personal opinion. I agree, go with ASUS or Gigabyte for both the motherboard and GPU. Your Enermax will be fine. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1220806 | 2011-08-03 21:55:00 | I'd just like to point out that ASRock stuff sucks. Get a Proper mobo from Asus or Gigabyte. Have you checked the psu as well. Ie good brand etc :pf1mobmini: You would be wrong then....ASRock has a very strong following in the US Its ASUS who have the problematic board this time around with SB processors.... OP: With video editing, if you use the Z68 chipset board i believe you can use quick sync to encode your video faster than the Nvidia GPU you have..with better quality. If you go for 16GB RAM, perhaps you can allocate 10GB of it to a RAM drive to use for your editing. www.extradrivecreator.com |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1220807 | 2011-08-03 22:00:00 | No it's not a personal opinion. I agree, go with ASUS or Gigabyte for both the motherboard and GPU. Your Enermax will be fine. ASRock are one of those DID-esque brands, some of their products are outstanding, and some are plain rubbish. I'd also lean to Asus or Gigabyte in general, though when a specific ASRock product has had across-the-board good reviews I'd consider it. They were originally a cheapie subdivison of Asus... yet they weren't willing to damage the Asus name by branding it as such, hmm. They've stepped up in their own right the last few years, though. |
inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1220808 | 2011-08-04 04:04:00 | Just a note on video encoding, if you can find software supporting quicksync the CPU's built in graphics core is around twice as fast as a high end Nvidia card with better quality results. I'm not sure how relevant that is to video editing or the software you use but I thought I'd mention it. To use it you either need to use a H67 or similar board or the new Z68 chipset and some 3rd party software I've forgotten the name of, could well come with the motherboard. Apart from that looks like a great system, and that power supply should be more than adequate for any single card setup. I'd only worry if going SLI - and even then go to one of the PSU calculator sites and see what it says support.asus.com Incidentally I'm prettty sure asrock is the budget oriented division of asus and generallly I hear good things about them but myself I'd still go ASUS or Gigabyte or even (gasp) an intel branded board (less featured generally but great reliability). Edit: took too long typing, seems others beat me to it :) |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1220809 | 2011-08-04 04:55:00 | Thanks for your replies everyone. Would I need to worry about specific cooling if I'm just planning to run the system at stock speeds (to start off with anyway)? Are there any cases that you receommend that can store many internal HDDs? I'm not looking for a fancy gamer's box, but something that looks sleek and professional would be nice :P | aonghas (12649) | ||
| 1220810 | 2011-08-04 06:02:00 | Yeah I've found ASRock OK in the past...don't really know how it got a bad rep. Infact i've had more DOA Asus boards. |
Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1220811 | 2011-08-04 06:34:00 | I'd guess you'd hear about more Asus boards dying as there are more of them, ie even if ASRock had the same failure rate you'd still probably hear of the Asus ones more often as they sell more (i guess). As for the case the NZXT Phantom can store 7 HDD's which can be either 2.5 or 3.5. Its got some fancy drive caddy thing going on. I also believe the Antec 900 v3 is great for air cooled systems. | icow (15313) | ||
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