What we are
A small non-profit for heritage preservation and regional development. Based in the Czech Republic, with an Iowa-based sister organization.
What we are going to do:
Making short video’s for mobile content for our education trails. Each point of interest on the trail has a Beetagg/QR-code sign through which you can connect to a mobile-content website and download info on that place to your handy.
Making short education video’s to be used in presentations and in our museum using data projectors.
Making short video’s for our normal websites
No gaming, no high-end professional full-time video editing.
The best we now have:
A 2009-built Acer Travelmate 7730G (Intel core 2 Duo processor P8700, 3 Mb L cache, 4 Gb DDR2, NVidia GeForce 9600M GT). The rest of our hardware is older and does not come close in power to this one.
A Sony DCR-HC85E miniDV digital camera and a Sony HDR-SR10 HD AVCHD digital camera, with lots of material already on miniDV tapes and some digital video material from professionals. Software: Adobe design Premium CS3.
What we are considering to build:
I am a newbie in this field, so I googled and found videoguys. Their 2010 recommendation for a budget DIY sounded balanced, so I used it as starting point. The following components for home-building would set us back about $$ 1,880 locally (lousy exchange rate).
$ 265 Motherboard Asus P6X58D-E intel X58
$ 320 CPU intel i7 950 (the 970 would set us back another $650)
$ 130 RAM Kingston 3x 4 GB)
$ 420 Nvidia GTX 570 (470 or 480 are alternatives similar in price)
$ 110 HDD Hitachi 1.5 Tb 7K for editing work
$ 250 SSD 120 GB as separate OS hard disk
$ 110 CD Rom Blue-ray RW
$ 125 Power 850 watt
$ 150 Tower Antec ninehundredtwo or similar
This is only for these components through internet retail; no software, no mouse or keyboards or monitors included yet. The best monitors we have are Acer AL 1951 and AL 1751, now about 4 years old. We can include better monitors in our next projects, so they are of less concern right now.
Unfortunately, the $ 1,900 is about the max we have in project funding for this computer. With this project funding, we also HAVE to spend this money; trying to save money will mean it will get lost or disappear elsewhere in the project. We can buy additional components with savings, but that is it, we cannot put savings in our pocket. Also, part of the policy is that we buy local, that is, through Czech companies (internet or direct retail). That means Amazon etc are out.
Questions now are
- Is this set-up ok for what we want or way too good (probably).
- Can we shave something off somewhere and get better cooling or other hardware?
- Something in hardware or software missing?
Hardware:
- Asus P6X58D-E intel X58 with i7 950 or Gigabite Z68 with i7 950? (about $ 130 cheaper)
- P8Z68-V PRO - Intel Z68 i7 970 or Sandybridge 2600K? (about $100 cheaper)
A small non-profit for heritage preservation and regional development. Based in the Czech Republic, with an Iowa-based sister organization.
What we are going to do:
Making short video’s for mobile content for our education trails. Each point of interest on the trail has a Beetagg/QR-code sign through which you can connect to a mobile-content website and download info on that place to your handy.
Making short education video’s to be used in presentations and in our museum using data projectors.
Making short video’s for our normal websites
No gaming, no high-end professional full-time video editing.
The best we now have:
A 2009-built Acer Travelmate 7730G (Intel core 2 Duo processor P8700, 3 Mb L cache, 4 Gb DDR2, NVidia GeForce 9600M GT). The rest of our hardware is older and does not come close in power to this one.
A Sony DCR-HC85E miniDV digital camera and a Sony HDR-SR10 HD AVCHD digital camera, with lots of material already on miniDV tapes and some digital video material from professionals. Software: Adobe design Premium CS3.
What we are considering to build:
I am a newbie in this field, so I googled and found videoguys. Their 2010 recommendation for a budget DIY sounded balanced, so I used it as starting point. The following components for home-building would set us back about $$ 1,880 locally (lousy exchange rate).
$ 265 Motherboard Asus P6X58D-E intel X58
$ 320 CPU intel i7 950 (the 970 would set us back another $650)
$ 130 RAM Kingston 3x 4 GB)
$ 420 Nvidia GTX 570 (470 or 480 are alternatives similar in price)
$ 110 HDD Hitachi 1.5 Tb 7K for editing work
$ 250 SSD 120 GB as separate OS hard disk
$ 110 CD Rom Blue-ray RW
$ 125 Power 850 watt
$ 150 Tower Antec ninehundredtwo or similar
This is only for these components through internet retail; no software, no mouse or keyboards or monitors included yet. The best monitors we have are Acer AL 1951 and AL 1751, now about 4 years old. We can include better monitors in our next projects, so they are of less concern right now.
Unfortunately, the $ 1,900 is about the max we have in project funding for this computer. With this project funding, we also HAVE to spend this money; trying to save money will mean it will get lost or disappear elsewhere in the project. We can buy additional components with savings, but that is it, we cannot put savings in our pocket. Also, part of the policy is that we buy local, that is, through Czech companies (internet or direct retail). That means Amazon etc are out.
Questions now are
- Is this set-up ok for what we want or way too good (probably).
- Can we shave something off somewhere and get better cooling or other hardware?
- Something in hardware or software missing?
Hardware:
- Asus P6X58D-E intel X58 with i7 950 or Gigabite Z68 with i7 950? (about $ 130 cheaper)
- P8Z68-V PRO - Intel Z68 i7 970 or Sandybridge 2600K? (about $100 cheaper)
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