£500 budget for desktop, for HD editing and web use.

[Smally]

Hi as the title says.
Budget £500 for desktop pc and wireless keyboard with in built mouse.
no need for monitor.
Main uses editing footage from my HD camera (sanyo xacti hd2000)
Also internet usage.

Any reccomendations?

 

[Focus Owner]

diy or prebuilt?

 

[Smally]

Prefer pre built, but with guidance i think i could DIY it.

 

[dave]

aldi

AMD Athlon™ II X4 620 quad core processor 2.60GHz, 2MB L2 Cache
ATI Radeon™ HD 4200 graphics
3GB (3,072MB) DDR3 SDRAM
Multiformat DVD/CD burner1 supports all the usual DVD/CD standards, including dual layer DVD-R and DVD+R
Wireless LAN IEEE 802.11n-standard technology with up to 300Mbit/s., 802.11b/g compatible2
1TB (1,000GB) hard disk for more than 200,000 songs or photos3
Network controller Ethernet LAN (10/100/1,000MBit/s.)
Integrated flash memory card reader, reads and writes all current flash memory cards4
eSATA connection for connecting external SATA devices
8 channel high definition audio5
Connections:
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£430

 

[Focus Owner]

amd 2.6 quad core
ATI Radeon™ HD 4200 graphics
3gb ddr3 ram
dvd burner
1tb burner
hdmi (dont be too wow'd by it)
card reader
external sata connection
looks good on paper but depends on the mother board fsb and such, also im not a fan of amd and to be honest seems expensive

 

[Smally]

Ok so thats out the window, any other suggestions?

 

[Stu DemonD]

Go DIY, I have built multiple PCs for my customers to whatever spec they want

 

[Smally]

Yeh thats fine but its knowing what to get.
Getting the best of everything wouldnt be rite for my needs, and knowing what to get is a mine field.

 

[Focus Owner]

bottom one
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[Stu DemonD]

Yeh thats fine but its knowing what to get.
Getting the best of everything wouldnt be rite for my needs, and knowing what to get is a mine field.

Is £500 your top budget?

I can take a look at speccing one up, but if you haven't done it before...

Maybe go for an Intel i5. I am not a fan of AMD in anycase.

 

[ChrisUK]

For HD video editing stay away from AMD. Ideal solution would be a Intel i5 and preferably a ATI Radeon due to the fact you can use an "Avivo" compatible video rendering codec/program and literally half the amount of time it takes to encode video as it will utilise your graphics cards GPU as extra processing power.

 

[Focus Owner]

does 64bit work with all softwear now? other than java

 

[Stu DemonD]

does 64bit work with all softwear now? other than java

Yes, move on lol - the issues with 64 bit are so infrequent now, I haven't encountered a single problem to be honest.

 

[Smally]

Is £500 your top budget?

I can take a look at speccing one up, but if you haven't done it before...

Maybe go for an Intel i5. I am not a fan of AMD in anycase.

£500 is top budget yes.

If you could try speccing one up i would be greatful as i have not done it before.

cheers

 

[Stu DemonD]

Oops, already over budget

Plus I haven't budgeted for the wireless keyboard with built-in mouse, oops.

Certain components can be tweaked though. However, I am not a fan of cheap cases - my current case cost over £100 alone!

It only took me 10 minutes to do that initial spec, but a good start point - will need reviewing - plus I only looked at one supplier.

 

[Smally]

Cheers for your attempt a bit over budget though, i thought £500 was a good sum for a pc to handle editing HD.

 

[Stu DemonD]

Cheers for your attempt a bit over budget though, i thought £500 was a good sum for a pc to handle editing HD.

Probably, but I tend to go over the top slightly. You really do need an i5 in my opinion.

We can come down on the case and the PSU though - £30 is a bit OTT for you, plus the mobo is only mATX. We could also look at a lower specced ATI card.

As for OS - that is up to you. You could go non-legit and save £70 or so - but personally I like a valid key for my OS

 

[volxstu]

Dont you need at least 8gig RAM to render HD video in a reasonable time or can you change the 2x2gigs for 2x4 gig?

Also isnt it all about i7 now?

 

[Stu DemonD]

Dont you need at least 8gig RAM to render HD video in a reasonable time or can you change the 2x2gigs for 2x4 gig?

Also isnt it all about i7 now?

He is on a £500 budget - i7 means a whole different motherboard system, at more expense. Also, did you not read the bit about 'Avivo'...

And yes, he can put whatever memory he likes in - at a cost.

I thought you only did Macs?

 

[volxstu]

Yeah but the Graphics is normally what 1gig of which a fair whack would be used for well graphics. But yeah i really dont know much at all. Just that to render properly takes a fair bit of memory. There must be a reason why power macs are mainly being used Video editors and less for Graphics these days.

Oh and macs are now Intel based. (unfortunately)