Is this pc spec good enough?

[Hector Melendez]

Ha ha, Harm, Seems you’re Intel fanatic. I did a research b4 buying and also asked savvy people envolved in PC’s and all concluded AMD is superior to graphics & video. I don’t mean is superior in all tasks but in overall performance.
Ahh! I don’t care about Intel or AMD or whatever. What I want is a PC that runs straight w/o problems.

[Hector Melendez]

The best logical answer I had hear.

[Harm Millaard]

[hhv_pro] “On storage you will be better off with 4-8 drives Raid0 based array.”

I have to disagree on this. Why would you opt for a 4-8 fold chance of losing all your data, just by having ONE disk fail? Better to use Raid5 or Raid6, since the performance loss is negligent and due to the redundancy (which lacks completely in (R)aid0) you can have one or even two disks fail at the same time without losing any data.

[Harm Millaard]

That is indicative of the kind of projects you do and was the reason I asked the OP to give more info. Did you ever try a HDV project with 6+ video tracks or even a DV project with 12+ tracks? You may think differently, once you tried that.

The whole point is now mute since the OP has never answered and there is no longer any reason to try to assist him in asnyway.

[Costas Damianou]

Thanks Guys for all your input

the DVD editing is mor eof instruction based DVDs rather than high end productions with loads of animations etc. We will be editing in HD though. DVD edititing will not be a full time thing, probably 1 or 2 dvds a month.

I think i have opted for a AMD 4600 X2 (9.2GHz Eq) Dual core CPU, 2GB DDR 667, 500 GB SATA Drive etc

I compared the benchmarks for this processor compared to a dual core and the difference in speed processing speed comapred to price isnt really justifiable at this stage.

What do you guys think?

[Hector Melendez]

Good decision for SD editing. Things will change for HD. At least 2 Hard Disc is recommended. (1-operative system 2-Capture/render footage- the biggest one) It can be external.

You didn’t mentioned the video card. It’s important to choose a good one with dualhead for 2 screens and Svhs out for TV monitoring.

[Harm Millaard]

Quote from Tom’s Hardware:

AMD’s Athlon 64 X2 processors 5600+ and 6000+ did well in the synthetic benchmarks and in 3DMark. They also deliver good performance to compress files with WinRAR, process pictures in Adobe Photoshop CS2 or create large PDF documents with Acrobat 7, thanks to their integrated memory controller. They don’t have a chance against the Core 2 Duo, however, if you are looking to encode or transcode digital audio or video. If you are willing to spend more than $200 on the processor, Core 2 Duo still is the only reasonable choice.

Where ever you got the notion that a dual core 4600 is equivalent to 9.2 GHz is beyond me.

The last sentence in the quote makes sense to me: Core 2 Duo still is the only reasonable choice.

[Costas Damianou]

You guys seemed to have persuaded me into a E6600 Intel core 2 Duo.

Will a 320GB ahrd drive be sufficient. I ahve 500GB freecom external drives which i currently use.

[Harm Millaard]

If you mean an internal 320 SATA disk, yes. SATA is about twice as fast as a fire wire disk and about three times as fast as a USB disk.

[Hhv_pro]

I’ve had yet to see an affordable (unless you are talking about dual Fiber Optic types) Raid config that can deliver uncompressed full HD in other then Raid0.

Yes there are solutions are available for lots of $$$$$$… but can you afford them??? Simply back up your files to external/Tape drives. Remember you don’t need sustain data rate for back up/restore, and still be cheaper in case one of your drive crash.

Yes drives do crash, just like any other electronics equipment, but you have to plan for worst and hope for best! There are always trade-offs and you go with the best solution you can afford/works for you.