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Thread ID: 114860	2010-12-20 08:18:00	Help with buying a PC for video editing	Jessicagee (14280)	Press F1

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1163563	2010-12-20 19:09:00	Ihave a budget of $1300 and happy to buy of trademe. With a decent budget like that, why would you want to resort to Trademe? The majority exaggerate or inaccurately report specifications, don't list brand of parts (it matters), don't give proper warranty and probably don't/can't be found when/if something does go wrong. Go to a reputable shop. Playtech or Computer lounge. They can also advise you on what would be suitable too.	pctek (84)
1163564	2010-12-20 19:29:00	That copy of Windows 7 you have will need to be a retail version, not an OEM version which is not transferable to a new machine. And how many people do that??	paulw (1826)
1163565	2010-12-20 20:17:00	With a decent budget like that, why would you want to resort to Trademe? The majority exaggerate or inaccurately report specifications, don't list brand of parts (it matters), don't give proper warranty and probably don't/can't be found when/if something does go wrong. Go to a reputable shop. Playtech or Computer lounge. They can also advise you on what would be suitable too. x2, Highly recommend ComputerLounge for this.	wratterus (105)
1163566	2010-12-20 20:26:00	Solid points from AvonBill & pctek!	Chilling_Silence (9)
1163567	2010-12-20 20:47:00	I hate to say it but wouldn't a MAC be better for video editing?	CYaBro (73)
1163568	2010-12-20 20:52:00	Not for $1300 it wouldn't be! :p	wratterus (105)
1163569	2010-12-20 20:55:00	I hate to say it but wouldn't a MAC be better for video editing? The correct answer in this case would be "No". An 8- or 12-core Mac Pro would be very good, but they start at around 5 times the budget posted in this thread, so are out of the picture. On a more useful note, I'd look at a Phenom 1055T, M4A87TD, 8GB DDR3-1600, GTX460 1GB, Corsair 650W PSU as a base, add in whatever drives you want and a case.	inphinity (7274)
1163570	2010-12-20 21:05:00	Just a note about the 6 core AMD vs Quad core intel comment, much as I would like to support AMD they simply aren't as fast as intel currently. The fastest 6 core AMD available barely matches mainstream intel Quad cores and generates a lot more heat. My advice is similar to most here, the best quad core i5 or i7 you can afford, a good brand motherboard and a reasonable graphics card. If memory bandwidth is important an i7 X58 chipset based system with triple channel RAM (6G should be enough) is the way to go, but that'll probably blow your budget. As for offloading decoding to the graphics cards most discrete cards handle this fine but very few encoders or transcoders actually use the graphics card to help despite this being possible for quite some time now.	dugimodo (138)
1163571	2010-12-20 21:31:00	The fastest 6 core AMD available barely matches mainstream intel Quad cores and generates a lot more heat . Actually, the Phenom II x6's are very competitive when it comes to multi-threaded applications - including Adobe Premiere Pro - compared to the i5's . To step up from the 1055T, for example, which is about $290, you need to look at an i7, which start at around $400 . It's price-point puts it as a direct competitor to the i5-760, and they are very similar in performance . Specific applications or games one or the other may be better, but overall, you'd be hard-pressed to separate them . A system based around either AMD's 1055T or Intel's i5-760 will, in my opinion, be very capable of meeting the original poster's needs . I tend towards AMD in such cases because the cheaper motherboard chipsets tend to be better, so you can get overall better value from the system in many cases . Given that RAM, HDD, GPU etc are compatible across both, when you have a motherboard + CPU combo of either 1055t + 870-based board for ~$450 i5-760 + P55-based board for ~$500 The 760 may be 3% faster, but it's 11% more expensive, and so for many cases the AMD option represents better value . For sure, if we had someone going "Guys I want to build the ultimate gaming PC and I don't really care about price" I'd be pointing at the i7's . Nothing from AMD at present can match the high-end i7s performance . But at the entry-and mid-range price-points, the two companies are definitely competitive, and options from both are well worth considering . At the end of the day, it's probably going to come down to what the best overall package deal offered by, say, CL or Playtech is . But for the price range indicated, those would be the two main CPUs I'd be looking to base the build around - AMD 1055t, or Intel i5-760 .	inphinity (7274)
1163572	2010-12-20 22:06:00	I don't disagree, the i5 is exactly the sort of thing I meant by mainstream intel quad core . AMD dont currently have an answer for the i7 but have always performed well compared to similarly priced inTel CPU's . The point I was attempting to make is the 6 cores of the AMD offer no real advantage over the 4 cores of say an i5 or cheaper i7 .	dugimodo (138)
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