Advice on a Computer for editing

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Christian,

You may find yourself disappointed in a system like that – you get what you pay for. A good base for an HD edit system with Adobe CS5.5 would be a Core i7 processor. Regarding display cards, the Adobe Mercury Playback Engine offers GPU-accelerated performance when using specified Nvidia display cards. The integrated Radeon graphics would not help in this respect.

Regardless of what system hardware you end up with, you will definitely want a dedicated hard drive for video, so that means getting at least TWO drives in the computer, one for the OS and programs, the other dedicated to video projects.

There’s other factors as well, but basically, a $500 system is not going to provide a very good HD editing experience.

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Jason Finnigan]

I think most of us end up building our own computers.

I get all my parts off newegg. I think I spent about $1000 on mine. (6 months old now)

You should get a Core i7 or AMD 6 core. and a Adobe supported gfx card.

the system I built was

AMD Phemon II X6 3.2Ghz
Gigabye Mobo USB3/PCIE/ESATA/SATA II/SATA III
4x 1TB HDD’s 7200RPM (2 system drive (mirrored) 2 Scratch (RAID 0)
Nvidia GTX 470
Windows 7 64bit

Hope that helps some

Thanks,
Jason

[Alex Gerulaitis]

Would you be able to put together a Newegg wishlist and make it public? I think with the decent chassis, RAM, and Windows license it will be more like $1200-1500.

Alex (DV411)

[Jason Finnigan]

I can later. I didn’t have to pay for Windows 7 license because I get them free from MSDN so that would be an extra $200-300

Thanks,
Jason

[Alex Gerulaitis]

That makes sense. Did the $1K price tag also include memory and if so, how much?

Alex (DV411)