what's a good system

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In article <95513a07.0408032156.69435b2b@posting.google.com>,
bruin70@mail.com (b) wrote:

> a friend of mine wants to build a dedicated pc for his video editing.
> he is using pinnacle, but feels his pc is too slow(it is 2-3 years
> old)
>
> this will be a DEDICATED pc, with no mulitasking involved. he says he
> will simply run pinnacle and that's it. he doesn't want to overclock.


Dual 2.5GHz PowerPC G5
1.25GHz frontside bus/processor
512K L2 cache/processor
512MB DDR400 SDRAM
Expandable to 8GB SDRAM
160GB Serial ATA
8x SuperDrive
Three PCI-X Slots
ATI Radeon 9600 XT
128MB DDR video memory
56K internal modem
$2,999.00


Cinema Display
30-inch (29.7-inch viewable)
2560 x 1600 optimal resolution
16.7 million colors
DVI Display Connector
2 port USB 2.0 Hub
2 FireWire 400 ports
$3,299.00
VESA mount compatible

Requires NVIDIA GeForce 6800
Ultra DDL Card

Archived from groups: rec.video.desktop (More info?)

On 3 Aug 2004 22:56:35 -0700, bruin70@mail.com (b) wrote:
>a friend of mine wants to build a dedicated pc for his video editing.
>he is using pinnacle, but feels his pc is too slow(it is 2-3 years
>this will be a DEDICATED pc, with no mulitasking involved. he says he
>will simply run pinnacle and that's it. he doesn't want to overclock.

Buy here http://www.alienware.com/Product_P [...] video.aspx
or build one using the same hardware (view hardware list by clicking
on their customize option)


John Thomas Smith
http://www.direct2usales.com
http://www.pacifier.com/~jtsmith