What PC to build?
Mar 17, 2010 5:27 AM
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if you're not gonna build it yourself, http://www.adkvideoediting.com/ is our trusted builders.
and for laptops, go Sager.
4 things i had trouble with
you need one more disk for your OS a 200-300gb vraptor(10k-15krpm) would do.
Processor - i7950 would be better
Ram - 12gb(3x2gb sticks) DDR3 @ 1600
Gfx Card - Nvidia gtx470
Also, you forgot to mention your budget.
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Hi,
I, like most others in this thread am building a custom PC (for someone), the only problem is the budget is $1,850 CAD after taxes and shipping, so it's a bit more limited, I had some questions:
In the minimum requirements it lists RAID 0, is this to be a dedicated drive for rendering only? I was planning on doing a RAID 0 (500GB drives) and an OS Drive (500GB), as well as a storage drive (2TB), does this make sense, would all cache/rending point to the RAID 0?
I'm getting the GTX 470, with using this graphics card and CUDA, does this mean it no longer uses the CPU at all, or does it use the CPU and GPU now to do the processing of the video?
The components I'm looking at getting are as follows, right now it's a bit over budget, so I'm looking at possibly going with a less expensive motherboard and going down to 8GB ram.
Graphics Card - EVGA GTX 470
CPU - Core I7 @ 3.06Ghz
Motherboard - Asus P6X58D-E
Raid 0 - 2 x 500GB Seagate 7200rpm drives
OS Drive - 1 x 500GB Seagate 7200rpm drive
Media Storage - 1 x 2TB Western Digital Green drive
RAM - 12GB - G.Skill ripjaws Series 12GB (3 x 4GB)
Case - Cooler Master RC-690-KKN1-GP
Power Supply - CMPSU-750TX 750W (I've got to take a look at this, might not be enough)
Blu-Ray Burner - LG WH10LS30K
OS - Win7 Prof 64bit
Right now this is totalling around $1,950. First of all, does this setup look decent? It matches a lot of the others I've seen, I'm just not sure on the hard drive setup, Power Supply, and if the graphics card is doing all the work, maybe I could bump down the CPU a bit.
Thanks to anyone who replies!
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Thanks for the reply! I'll look for a bigger tower, hopefully there is one in the same price range.
I'm curious on the green drive, you definitely know better then I, but I wanted to ask. If media is being stored on it, why the need for 7200rpm? I understand if your actively converting to a drive then you need speed, but once your project is done, do you typically store it on a usb drive or slower large drive, or is that demand for speed still there during playback (in the case of uncompressed video I guess?)
Thanks again for the input
Any input on the hardware I'm using, does it at look OK overall?
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Ahhh, the one time I don't copy my message before hitting submit and it logs me out and I lose it
I did mean an export disk (assuming that means where you store your media when your done editing and it's been converted to it's final format).
To be honest I know nothing about adobe premier, I've done research to understand what the requirements are and different recommended setups, I guess the biggest thing I'm grasping at is the hard drives, and I think it's because I don't understand the workflow, I'm planning:
500GB 7200rpm - OS/Page File
RAID 0 / 2 x 500GB 7200rpm - I assume this is where you would keep all your projects as you were working on them for rendering/editing etc.. ? I know it's a requirement for Premier CS5, but it didn't really go into detail on what's to be stored on it.
2TB - I assumed the user of the machine would need somewhere to store his finished work, if this isn't needed, or a 7200rpm 1TB drive would be better, I can absolutely change it.Thanks again for the reply, I really appreciate it, I just want to be sure I get the hardware and configuration right, so I don't buy all these parts and realize I should have orderex x instead of y
...I'm copying and pasting this one just in case
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Hi Chuck - that CPU looks top of the range - I was more interested in the "economical" range (based on Harm's original post terminology) - we only do video editing say once every month or two after a holiday/trip, and then come back and try to reasonable job (not professional by any means) of pulling the best parts together. We use Adobe Premiere & Photoshop. The file types we seem to have currently are:
- *.dv - from our older (a few years old) digital video camera
- *.mts - from the video from our new digital video camera, that takes reasonable video
Currently based on reading to date (not too much yet) is something like:
* CPU / Motherboard
- Not sure (was thinking ASUS for motherboard, but model depends on CPU no doubt?)
- what sort of CPU/motherboard do you think these days fits into the Economical (not professional) category at the moment?
- Re CPU the list from our local shop is: http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products_listnew.phtml?id=10&bid=2&id2=13
* Memory - get lots it seems
- I was thinking 12GB initially* Video Card - not sure whether we need something flash given the video formats we are dealing with (see above)? Someone suggested nVidia GTX470 or a Quadro card for Adobe Premiere work...
* Disk Drives
- dedicated system drive
- video drives - wanted to have data protection (and apparently Drobo's etc are not good for performance) so two (or three) SATA drives here in a RAID 5 configuration I was thinking? Not sure if there are any tips & tricks here to be aware of re RAID 5 usage with video editing?
* O/S - Win7 64bit - Home Premium or Pro? perhaps just go for Pro?
thanks
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Someone was able to help me in another forum. I'd thought I'd post his response here, in case someone else has similar specs and searching for answers on performance.
Copla_XT wrote:
For 8gb of ram, I'd leave at least 2gb for other applications. I don't know what plugins you use for Firefox, but that should work. If you have 4 cores, leave one for other programs. Minimum allocated for per CPU, 1gb should work well, maybe 2. Personally, I like longer ram preview over faster rendering. I like to see more than a couple seconds.
I tried it and it works so much better than the default settings. I hope this helps someone.
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