Video editing desktop

[larrys640]

What new MB, Chip and MEM will perform as well as my Asus P6T, i7-920 and 12 Gig of triple channel RAM?

 

[mosox]

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/307089-10-performance-advice

LE If the 2600K is too expensive for you get the 2500K. Also you are a gamer?

 

[larrys640]

No gaming. This might sound bad, but cost is not a concern...perfromance is. In the past, we have purchased ccomputers from Puget Systems, in Washington state. The last one was: Antec P182 full tower, Corsair VX 550W, Asus P5E3 Premium/WiFi AP, Core 2 Quad Q8200 @2.33GHz, 4 Gig Kingston HyperX DDR3-1375 MEM, Asus GeForce 9600GT 512 MB Silent Video card, Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro (775) CPU cooling, 2X WD 1TB Black HDD, 2x Pioneer 20X DVD-RW, Creative X-Fi titanium Falat1tyChampion PCI-E, operating with Vista 32 bit. It was always slow rendering the Pinnacle Studio projects, so I told the boss that we needed to make a minor upgrade. I replaced the 4 GIG of strange MEM with 8 GIG of Kingston HyperX KHT 1333 and installed Win 7 Pro 64 Bit, along with 2 more 1TB WD Black HDD. It is better, but I know my Mid-tower at home will wallk all over it. I want to be sure the next $4,000 Puget is spec'd correctly. I also think we might need to upgrade the Power supply to 750 Watts, to accommodate the extra HDDs.

 

[mosox]

You can compare the CPUs in here
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/47?vs=287

That PSU is fine. 8GB DDR3 is fine.
Here's a mobo, wait for more replies on that
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128498

RAM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231445
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231440

You can add later if needed.

Windows 7 64-bit

Some 6xxx series AMD video card for the best image quality (that is, if you don't use CUDA).

For anything above that you need 2 CPUs or wait for the 8-core AMD Bulldozer due in Q3.

 

[larrys640]

Thank you, mosox, so much. I will do my research and check out the links you provided. I do use NewEgg most of the time. I have spent over $7,000 there in the past 2 years.

 

[mosox]

You can check out this too
http://www.avadirect.com/Tower-Computer-Workstations

 

[larrys640]

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