Building a Video Editing PC

[Steve Freebairn]

If it needs to be built right now, I’d use a Pentium D 930 with an Asus P5WD2-E in a Cooler Master Stacker Case (i’ve got one that I have to sale), with 4 GB’s of DDR2 667 ram with a 7900GT (great for all the new OpenGL features in the new suite). I’d put in a 160 sata2 drive for the OS and then I’d put in 4 500 GB drives in a raid 5 for your Video drive. (or whatever size drives fit your needs) On the monitor, I don’t know if you are a LCD person or a CRT, but for me personally my 19inch CRTs that display 2048×1536 are just fine.

[Aaron Strader]

You want a “future proof” PC? You should really, honestly spend a bit of cash on an AMD64. Really. It’ll blow your mind to see how fast it is running like that. You’ll probably spend a few thousand to get it running right, but it’ll be miles ahead of the competition, and smoking hot fast.

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are u using a raid controller card or is there something built into the os u’re using for raid 5?

[Steve Freebairn]

Most new motherboards have built in Raid 5 (on the Intel platform) If you can afford it, I’d buy a separate raid 5 controller, but that isn’t necessary just for starting out.

[Steve Freebairn]

If you can wait a few months, Intel’s new Conroe smokes all of AMD’s chips.

[Marcelokron]

Adobe premiere is slow with big projects even with NASA computer!

[David Loschiavo]

I just built the following and I am pleased with the results running all of the Adobe apps.

Computer Specs:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ 1GHz FSB Dual Core Processor

ABIT AN8-ULTRA Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 MOBO

Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD3200KS
320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

SAPPHIRE Radeon X800GTO 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS 7.1

CORSAIR XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR 400 (PC 3200)

Western Digital Caviar 250GB 7200 RPM IDE Hard Drive

Western Digital Caviar 120GB 7200 RPM IDE Hard Drive

FSP Group AX500-A PSU

[Alan Hunter]

Cadge31,

Everyone can offer their opinion what they think is the best system, but in reality you first have to decide on how you plan on ingesting video into your system and how you plan on outputing a finished product. If you plan on using a capture card, then you’ll need to check look at the system requirements of the card maker. If you’re just using firewire in/out then your options are more open. Feedback from sites like this one is good, but in the end you’ll have to decide what is best for you based on funds and preference. So do your homework well.

alan@tvgolfshow.com

[Mike Smith]

Hi Steve

So far as I’m aware, Intel have not yet released details on architecture for this announced Pentium replacement, let alone performance details. Can you point us to where your info comes from?

Thanks

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/07/intel_core_idf/

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/10/intel_heat/page2.html

[Steve Freebairn]

anandtech.com or tomshardware.com along with a bunch of other sites on the net. At intel’s developer forum, they let a bunch of different companies run tests to show that the new intel chips are super fast. As of right now the code name for the new desktop chip is “conroe” if you google that you should find plenty of websites that will show the performance. The 40% faster claim was made by intel themselves even though in some cases it is much more than 40%.