HI All,
I am building a very low cost video editing rig for an ex-boss. ( No jokes, she was, er, is cool )
I would like to say what she has, what my parts may be and then if you could all let me know what you think and make any suggestions.
she has a 600-700 budget.
Now she has told me her requirements.
2d and 3d video rendering with Autocad and 3-d studio max. Office multi tasking, storing large video files.
She presentely has some components that we would like to use.
They are case/power supply : Enermax EG465P-VE FCA
I've looked this one up
http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/enermaxeg465p/
and it is a few years old but it fits atx boards and has a 430w power supply
she has a ide lg dvd rom that we will use.
she has a p3, forget that and everything besides the above.
She wants a quad core. a large 500 gig hard drive, and the rest is pretty much up to me.
Now I have looked online to see how well onboard/integrated graphics can work with rendering and most say not very well for 3d.
that was my first option, to get her a g35/31 and this way she can get a q6600 now and upgrage in a year with just a better chip.
all tests on toms say the quad will scale well on the above mentioned programs. but no tests for video cards show how well standard video cards work on video rendering software.
I have looked at the prices of matrox cards, ati fire gl / open gl cards and they are out of her price range.
I have offered to give her my radeon 9550 256mb agp card as it will help her out and should be better than any integrated graphics card.
So I have set my mind on a q6600 for 305$ canadian at a computer store here. I may look at tiger direct or other online stores but shipping might be expensive.
I was thinking on getting her the asrock 775 sata2 board that has agp and pcie. its 79$ here
and two gig of ddr2-533 or 667 will be about 55$.
keep in mind this board only goes to fsb of 1066 and overclocks to 1333, but I will not overclock her system, Mine ok but not a customers, to much risk. stability is key. this thing cannot crash.
I found a 500gb wd hd with 16mb cache for 125$
so to recap that is
proc q6600 305
mb asrcok 79
ram ocz 667 59
wd hd 125
roughly 568$
now i could maybe go phenom but I would rather stick with this q6600, also I dont know what other board has pcie and agp.
I could get a cheap 8400 or 2400 256 mb pcie video card for under 75$ bucks but will they beat the 9550?
My customer has also resignes herself that most likely she will not be able to upgrade again if we go this way.
ok sot he questions
would a g31 motherboard with onboard video do strong enough in rendering to allow her to have upgrade options?
any help would be greatly appreciated.
Kevin
I am building a very low cost video editing rig for an ex-boss. ( No jokes, she was, er, is cool )
I would like to say what she has, what my parts may be and then if you could all let me know what you think and make any suggestions.
she has a 600-700 budget.
Now she has told me her requirements.
2d and 3d video rendering with Autocad and 3-d studio max. Office multi tasking, storing large video files.
She presentely has some components that we would like to use.
They are case/power supply : Enermax EG465P-VE FCA
I've looked this one up
http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/enermaxeg465p/
and it is a few years old but it fits atx boards and has a 430w power supply
she has a ide lg dvd rom that we will use.
she has a p3, forget that and everything besides the above.
She wants a quad core. a large 500 gig hard drive, and the rest is pretty much up to me.
Now I have looked online to see how well onboard/integrated graphics can work with rendering and most say not very well for 3d.
that was my first option, to get her a g35/31 and this way she can get a q6600 now and upgrage in a year with just a better chip.
all tests on toms say the quad will scale well on the above mentioned programs. but no tests for video cards show how well standard video cards work on video rendering software.
I have looked at the prices of matrox cards, ati fire gl / open gl cards and they are out of her price range.
I have offered to give her my radeon 9550 256mb agp card as it will help her out and should be better than any integrated graphics card.
So I have set my mind on a q6600 for 305$ canadian at a computer store here. I may look at tiger direct or other online stores but shipping might be expensive.
I was thinking on getting her the asrock 775 sata2 board that has agp and pcie. its 79$ here
and two gig of ddr2-533 or 667 will be about 55$.
keep in mind this board only goes to fsb of 1066 and overclocks to 1333, but I will not overclock her system, Mine ok but not a customers, to much risk. stability is key. this thing cannot crash.
I found a 500gb wd hd with 16mb cache for 125$
so to recap that is
proc q6600 305
mb asrcok 79
ram ocz 667 59
wd hd 125
roughly 568$
now i could maybe go phenom but I would rather stick with this q6600, also I dont know what other board has pcie and agp.
I could get a cheap 8400 or 2400 256 mb pcie video card for under 75$ bucks but will they beat the 9550?
My customer has also resignes herself that most likely she will not be able to upgrade again if we go this way.
ok sot he questions
would a g31 motherboard with onboard video do strong enough in rendering to allow her to have upgrade options?
any help would be greatly appreciated.
Kevin