Possible PC for video editing/gaming

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#33243 4-May-2009 17:34

Hey everyone, I'm looking at buying a new PC in the coming months and am trying to find the best compromise between price & performance. It will mainly be used for video editing, including HD, and some light gaming. So far I'm looking at this setup, GST incl:

Thoughts or advice?

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#212166 4-May-2009 17:44

Board with more than 2 RAM slots is always a good idea.... that way if you find 4gb isnt enough you can upgrade without a hassle.

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#212198 4-May-2009 18:58

I would save a couple of buks on the cpu and get an e8400 (awesome cpu and u can overclcok it to the same speed as a e8500 very easily) the money you save, $60-$70 you could use on upgrading the graphics card...

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#212214 4-May-2009 19:45

Never really been a huge fan of overclocking. I may look at a better graphics card, though. Thanks, xpd, for the advice on the mobo, I'll definitely look for more slots.

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#212309 4-May-2009 23:02

The new ATI 4770 512mb (released this month) is very good price/performance.

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#212311 4-May-2009 23:10

Thats a rather old mobo by todays standards, its uses the G31 chipset, and an ICH7 Southbridge. A board with a P35 chipset uses an ICH9R controller, which has better disk controller performance.

My board is a GA-P35C-DS3R. Theres also the same model without the C in the model number, which is DDR2 only. The C version has DDR2 and DDR3 slots.
It also has 8 SATA slots, so you can have lots of storage.

Also, the E8400 is great. I've got mine running stable @ 3.6Ghz with Vcore of 1.315v (set in the BIOS). Its a C0 revision and the newer E0 revisions don't need as much voltage to overclock.

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#212385 5-May-2009 09:06

Thanks for the input, everyone, I've made a few changes.

Mobo is now: Foxconn P45A-S Motherboard, Socket 775, 1333MHz FSB, 4xDIMM DDR2, 2xPCIe-16, 2xPCI, 2xPCIe-1, 12xUSB2, Firewire, Audio, 1xATA, 6xSATA, RAID, ATX
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00 GHz, 1333MHz FSB, Socket 775, Retail pack with fan

There was only meant to be one HDD in that image as well, so I've taken out the second one. I forgot to add a PSU to my first config, also, so I've chosen: Antec TruePower Quattro 1000, 1000W ATX PSU, Active PFC, SLI Ready, Black/White

Revised price is $1,623.69 incl. GST.

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#212393 5-May-2009 09:29

That PSU is a bit over the top, your system would run nicely of a 400w - 500w PSU. Unless you are planing on on running top of the end sli configurations I would get another PSU
Maye something like this:

http://www.ascent.co.nz/productspecification.aspx?ItemID=376089 (if you want a silent PSu0
OR
http://www.ascent.co.nz/productspecification.aspx?ItemID=375111

Both of those PSU are more than ample for what you are trying to setup, again the money u save on a psu go and upgrade your graphics card

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#212407 5-May-2009 10:16

Thanks, Overclocker01, I've replaced the PSU with: Cooler Master eXtreme Power Plus, 550W ATX PSU, SLI Ready, Black, and the graphics card with: Sapphire Radeon HD 4770, 512MB, DDR5, PCIe-16, TV out, DVI, HDTV, CrossFire.

New price is $1,432.05

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#212534 5-May-2009 14:56

Looks good

Are you reusing the monitor/mouse/keyboard from an existing machine?
What OS are you installing?

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#212538 5-May-2009 15:11

I'll be reusing the mouse and keyboard from this machine. I'm currently using a 17" CRT/15" LCD and I'll keep the 17" CRT for my new PC until I replace it with a nice widescreen LCD, but I'm not too worried about that for now. Gotta keep costs down, y'know?

Haven't decided on OS, yet. I'm currently running XP Pro SP3, so I may stick with that until Win7 comes out. My current machine will have Ubuntu on it once it's been replaced.