Case color - irrelevant. PSU underpowered - 750W preferable to allow for expansion. Mobo is OK - personally I prefer Asus. CPU is fine. Memory needs to be faster and low latency - Kingston is still a good choice. Nowhere near enough HDD capability - 2 * 160GB (min) in RAID Mirror for OS. 2 * 1TB in RAID Stripe for data. Extra single HDD for AP 'scratch' would be an advantage. HDDs are now very cheap. DVD drive is excellent but dump Nero. Nero started off very well but has become bloatware and often interferes with other programs. Graphics card is OK but something with 1GB memory would give you more speed. Two monitors are great for AP video editing. To take advantage of 4GB (or more) memory you need Win XP64 or Vista 64. XP is only just hanging in there, better with Vista as long as PPro 2 is OK with it - I have not checked.
The price is average, you could do better by going to a small independent company who specialise in 'performance' PCs and haggling. You need as much power as you can get, unless you're happy to do something else whilst your PC is rendering video. Video can take huge amounts of storage and AP also needs a scratch area for extra speed, away from your main storage drives. I have more work than I can handle so not looking for more, but I specialise in high end PCs for turnkey systems that are the most memory/speed hungry and would recommend that you go for the best your wallet can stand. Consider more memory, but you will need a 64bit OS to take advantage of it. Check that GPU drivers are compatible with 64bit OS. If you feel competent, consider building your own to reduce costs, but do remember to use an anti-static wrist strap. Regards, Alan. www.theatreorgans.co.uk www.virtualtheatreorgans.com Admin: ConnArtistes, UKShopsmiths, 2nd Touch & A-P groups Shopsmith 520 + bits Flatulus Antiquitus ----- Original Message ----- From: Don To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 8:43 PM Subject: [AP] NEW VIDEO COMPUTER This is a new system that I might have built for video editing...can what do you guys think? Does this look like a good deal? I use Adobe Premier Pro 2.0 Athenatech A602B Black Case w/ 450 Watt Power Supply MSI P45 Neo3-FR Motherboard Intel Q6600 2.4GHZ Quad Core CPU (2) Kingston 2GB 800MHZ PC6400 DDR2 Memory Western Digital 500GB Hard Drive - SATAII 16MB Cache Pioneer DVR2910 20x DVD-RW w/ Nero Essentials 8 Suite eVGA nvidia 9600GT 512mb DDR3 Video Card WinXP Professional Total w/ Tax = $1097.16 I would appreciate any input. THANKS! . [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
