Choosing a new computer mainly for AE

[Chris Brearley]

I would phone Mesh to complete my order rather than do it online and specify that you wanted the SSD as the boot drive. They would probably do this anyway but it’s best to make sure.

By the time Windows is installed as well as your other software you’re only going to have 70Gb or so left on that drive and you DO NOT want to fill up your boot drive. I find ideally you want 100Gb+ plus for disk caching as well but you can specify any amount in the preferences. See how you get on using 40-50Gb using your boot drive. It would be faster than the 1TB sata but I myself do not like to use the boot drive for such things. Instead I prefer to have one drive for one job – Boot, disk cache, footage, backup. If you find that you need more than 400-50gb then use the 1TB sata or get a second SSD later on – the price of them is dropping all the time.

[David Larock]

Thanks mate! I see what you’re saying.

What do you think of getting 2x 2gb GeForce GTX 660 graphic cards?
Also, would that work? Getting two graphic cards?

I don’t think I’ll have enough to get anything better.