| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 114860 | 2010-12-20 08:18:00 | Help with buying a PC for video editing | Jessicagee (14280) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1163553 | 2010-12-20 08:18:00 | I'm on the market for a new computer for HD video editing, as my old one can not cope and is well past upgrading. I'm far from an expert in regards to computers but have a budget of $1300 roughly and happy to buy of trademe. Apart from needing at least 8gb ram an at least a 1tb HDD and having no integrated graphics I'm open to suggestions (I also own a copy of Win7 64bit from my old computer). I am using Adobe Premiere for editing with 1080p 60fps footage so it can be very taxing. Really I'm just after someone to post a link and someone else to back them up and hopefully I'll be editing by next week. :thumbs: I've tried to research AM vs Intel... but there seems to be a lot of conflicting advice so I've given up and hoping someone in the know can help. Kind regards, Jessica. :thanks www.trademe.co.nz |
Jessicagee (14280) | ||
| 1163554 | 2010-12-20 08:21:00 | TM might not be that cheap if you are looking for a relatively grunty machine. Have you checked prices at say computerlounge.co.nz? TM is good for 2nd hand clerical PCs for the mostly Ordinary Joe and Jane. I suggest you look at a i7 CPU if you can afford it, or a i5, 8GB as you said, HDD as you said, any compatible motherboard should be fine if you are not overclocking etc... Got a screen yet. PS. The video card, any one should be fine if you are not in games as long as it free's up the system shared video RAM by not getting onboard. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1163555 | 2010-12-20 08:32:00 | Thanks Nomad really cool advice, I do have a screen a 42" LCD so def all good their. I just had a quick look but keep running into gaming pc's which are probably similar, what would you suggest? Thanks for the quick reply. | Jessicagee (14280) | ||
| 1163556 | 2010-12-20 08:32:00 | Another program that you can try is Powerdirector 9 (www.cyberlink.com). It came out recently, and is native 64 bit | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1163557 | 2010-12-20 08:36:00 | I would say, have a look at the parts. i7 CPU if you can afford it. A motherboard that is compatible and some compatible 8GB RAM, you might want 2x (pieces) of 4GB to get your 8GB so it's a bit faster. I think Computer Lounge has a system builder online so you can just select all the parts you want that are compatible using drop down menus. They build it for you and courier to your door for free. They're very reputable. You can of course your own case as how much gaming or reserver as you like :) For the power supply you may want to look at Enermax. Someone should be able to advise you on what wattage is for your needs. For the motherboard good ones are ASUS or Gigabytes but there are others... |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1163558 | 2010-12-20 08:44:00 | The RAM is overkill, you really want to spend the money on a CPU, as the RAM is easier to upgrade later, and RAM won't be as much of a bottleneck. A decent GPU that you can offload the decoding to, and potentially even some of the encoding is a worthwhile investment. Edit: Something like this is quite probably good bang-for-buck: pbtech.co.nz Quad-core, 4GB RAM, decent GPU to offload the video playback to. From there it's just up to you to buy a nice monitor, keyboard, mouse, and you should come in right on budget!! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1163559 | 2010-12-20 08:46:00 | Thankyou everyone learning heaps! | Jessicagee (14280) | ||
| 1163560 | 2010-12-20 08:54:00 | If I'm not mistaken video editing programs take advantage of multi-core CPUs? If that's the case you should heavily consider AMD's 6-core Thuban instead of quad core i7s (there are a couple of 6-core i7s, but they're over $1200 each!!!). | qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 1163561 | 2010-12-20 08:58:00 | Some may also take advantage of Nvidia cards that support CUDA as well I see some converter programs state you'll get things done 5x faster with one. The same thing may apply to video editing programs |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1163562 | 2010-12-20 10:12:00 | 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. | AvonBill (11358) | ||
| 1 2 3 | |||||