Approximate Purchase Date: March
Budget Range: Around $600 after rebates
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Video Editing (Vegas, Premiere, After Effects), Music Editing + Mixing (Sonar x1), Gaming (mass effect)
Parts Not Required: keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: newegg, amazon, microcenter
Country of Origin: US
Parts Preferences: AMD cpu
Overclocking: maybe? probably not
SLI or Crossfire: again, probably not
Additional Comments: I'd like it to be quiet and a space saver
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Thuban 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Six-Core Desktop Processor HDT90ZFBGRBOX $199
ASRock 880GMH/USB3 R2.0 AM3 AMD 880G USB 3.0 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard $82.99
CORSAIR XMS3 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 Desktop Memory Model CMX8GX3M2A1333C9 $74.99 after $20 rebate
Antec EarthWatts Green EA-380D Green 380W Continuous power ATX12V v2.3 / EPS12V 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active power supply $44.99
Western Digital Caviar Blue WD10EALX 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Item #: N82E16822136767[/url] $60 after $15 off promo ending 3/2
APEX TX-381-C Black Steel Micro ATX Tower Computer Case $24.99
Grand Total: $538.73 shipped
Hello. I'd like to build a fast, quiet machine for making music videos and short films. Currently I'm mixing audio on my macbook and it works fine, so I figure the extra power should be used for the video editing. I read a lot of build requests from this forum and used to those as a basis for my list above. I didn't go too deep into the combo deals on newegg but I did see that there is a windows 7 combo with the cpu thats $25 off. May be able to get a free Motherboard if I buy the cpu from microcenter though but which one? I'd like the system to be small so I've chosen micro atx.
The thing I'm unsure about is whether or not to get a cheaper motherboard without onboard graphics and go with a good GPU, or stick with the motherboard with onboard graphics and upgrade to a better video card later on if its necessary. I've been reading about Nvidia Cuda and Vegas helping rendering times, how fast are we talking here? I do want something fast, but I also want it quiet. I don't do video professionally, its more for my own personal music/art and other bands in the area.
Also not sure if the power supply is strong enough.
Lastly, I want to play the Mass Effect series, I heard its very good.
Thank you.
Budget Range: Around $600 after rebates
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Video Editing (Vegas, Premiere, After Effects), Music Editing + Mixing (Sonar x1), Gaming (mass effect)
Parts Not Required: keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: newegg, amazon, microcenter
Country of Origin: US
Parts Preferences: AMD cpu
Overclocking: maybe? probably not
SLI or Crossfire: again, probably not
Additional Comments: I'd like it to be quiet and a space saver
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Thuban 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Six-Core Desktop Processor HDT90ZFBGRBOX $199
ASRock 880GMH/USB3 R2.0 AM3 AMD 880G USB 3.0 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard $82.99
CORSAIR XMS3 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 Desktop Memory Model CMX8GX3M2A1333C9 $74.99 after $20 rebate
Antec EarthWatts Green EA-380D Green 380W Continuous power ATX12V v2.3 / EPS12V 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active power supply $44.99
Western Digital Caviar Blue WD10EALX 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Item #: N82E16822136767[/url] $60 after $15 off promo ending 3/2
APEX TX-381-C Black Steel Micro ATX Tower Computer Case $24.99
Grand Total: $538.73 shipped
Hello. I'd like to build a fast, quiet machine for making music videos and short films. Currently I'm mixing audio on my macbook and it works fine, so I figure the extra power should be used for the video editing. I read a lot of build requests from this forum and used to those as a basis for my list above. I didn't go too deep into the combo deals on newegg but I did see that there is a windows 7 combo with the cpu thats $25 off. May be able to get a free Motherboard if I buy the cpu from microcenter though but which one? I'd like the system to be small so I've chosen micro atx.
The thing I'm unsure about is whether or not to get a cheaper motherboard without onboard graphics and go with a good GPU, or stick with the motherboard with onboard graphics and upgrade to a better video card later on if its necessary. I've been reading about Nvidia Cuda and Vegas helping rendering times, how fast are we talking here? I do want something fast, but I also want it quiet. I don't do video professionally, its more for my own personal music/art and other bands in the area.
Also not sure if the power supply is strong enough.
Lastly, I want to play the Mass Effect series, I heard its very good.
Thank you.