PC for Vegas

[Laszlo Kovacs]

Hi,

Focus on the technical contents rather than the vendor.
I’d choose an intel based motherboard, as much memory as possible (4GB is enough however), and a quadcore (e.g. Q9300) processor will do it.

You don’t need a powerful videocard, but an integrated one drops system performance, since it uses the main memory.
So you should take a real videocard, but it can be the cheapest, does not matter, unless you don’t use something that could be boosted by opengl or directx.

I’d put a RAID0 with at least 2 pieces of at least 320GB disks for video files, and another small HDD for the system.

Of course you’ll need a DVD burner, or blue-ray is the way you want to go? ;))

Regards

K.L.

[Rick Wise]

Thanks!

I still have not made up my mind whether or not to go the Mac route (since there’s a lot of work pressure on me to learn and use FCP ) or a much cheaper but powerful PC such as:
–E6850 Core 2 Duo 3 Ghz / 1333 / 4M
–4 GB RAM
–couple of hard drives
–video card (Nvidia 8600 GTS PCI-Express w/256M
etc. About $1,500 vs $4,000 for a Mac Pro reasonably equipped…

At one time posters here had recommendations for PC vendors. In any case, there’s a local computer shop that can make to order. Good to support the locals.

Rick Wise
director of photography
Oakland, CA
http://www.RickWiseDP.com
email: Rick@RickWiseDP.com

[Jeremy Rasnic]

There are plenty of vendors out there that will build custom machines (google it), but if you can build your own (it really isn’t as hard as one might think) you will save money and come out with a better machine if you put a little reasearch on the front end. Others have built systems that work well and they have posted their specs, benchmarks, etc. Here is one such example.

Currently, a quad core will give you the most performance boost and like previous responders, CPU and RAM are about all that matters when it comes to Vegas, so I would focus your spending on those two items with the CPU taking front seat.

You do want to be careful though and make sure you don’t put slow hard drives in your system as they can be a bottleneck. I would have one HDD for just your OS and programs and one for capture and one for renders (and another for things like Cinescore themes, jumptracks, etc.)

j razz

[Gary Brown]

I opted for the homemade. I laid it out here (https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/24/880642). Quad core, 4Gig, 4 drives one boot, two as raid for media,one as output/archives, three monitors one as dedicated video (HDTV LCD)in an SLi system ~$1700.

GB-)

“Better, Faster, Cheaper … Pick Two!”

Gary R. Brown, SCVE
Video Systems Engineer
Portsmouth Public Schools
Portsmouth, Virginia
23704-2135