Cards and Boards For Basic editing rig

[Dash1]

For a new set mostly for home videos for $1200-1500

What Mobo should I get? Brand and model ? I need with firewire too

Most say I dont need Quad [?] So, which one ?

What re graphics card? Which one ?
Should I think forward and get one with DirectX10 too ?

Whould you get sound card too ? Thanks

[stiltman]

For a new set mostly for home videos for $1200-1500
What Mobo should I get? Brand and model ? I need with firewire too
Most say I dont need Quad [?] So, which one ?
What re graphics card? Which one ?
Should I think forward and get one with DirectX10 too ?
Whould you get sound card too ?
Thanks

Here's what I just built for editing. Not for Gaming even though it can do some gaming

Intel DG965whmkr (you can dig up the specs if ya want)
Intel Q6600 2.4ghz Quad (stock Intel Fan)
Intel onboard X3000 Max Memory at 384mb (I do have a ATI X800gt 256mb just not installed)
Corsiar DDR2 4 x 1Gb 800mhz (this MB must have 5-5-5 x 1.8v mem)
Seagate SATA 3 x 500gb 16mb cache in Intel's RAID5 (I now have 4 HDDs + a spare since latest sales)
NEC 3540 x 2 (liggy's firmware)
NEC Floppy Drive (I'm old school)
Antec NSK4480 + 80mm front fan (read comments abvout the case)

The case was the hardest choice of all. I really liked the Lain Li, but this on was at BB and I had a $200 gift card. What I read about it and saw in the pics was good. Got it home and look and said shit! can my motherboard fit. Yeah it fits, but I can't use the 3 5.25 drive bay. The case needs to be about 5in deeper. All the drives extend way out. The 3rd 5.25 bay can't have a DVD burner because it will hit my RAM. Forget about having 3 HDDs if you have a monster video card too. I added the front 80mm fan because I had one laying around. The rear 120mm fan has 3 speeds and in medium it's pretty darn quite.

Vista Base Line was 5.9 across the board except for the video card. Both ratings for it were 4.6
Ghosted the Vista install and Installed XP
As of this post, I'll keep the XP install.

For editing, you don't need the most powerful video card or DirectX 10. The card needs to be openGL in most cases if you want full screen full frame playback, but in my case I didn't care about that. However, the onboard x3000 card can not do 3D animations very well...It struggles. Same goes for the ATI X800gt. So if you're going to be adding a lot of 3D animations to your videos, look at getting a Nvidia card.

The bad thing about this MB is that it will not over clock and this quad core processor is a great one to over clock. I am not an overclocker, so that was not one of my requirements.

In the end, it's the Processor and RAM that are the keys to fast editing and rendering of video. Well, good or great software will help too

[budz]

Here's my suggestions for a mobo, cpu and ram.

GIGABYTE GA-G33M-DS2R LGA 775 Intel G33 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard, $134.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128053
This mobo has built in video Intel GMA 3100. If you're not into gaming then get any ATI or NVIDIA PCIE video card w/at least 256mb. I have 2 GIGABYTE mobo's the P35 series which are great as well. Unfortunately no firewire built on both of my boards so I just use a pci firewire card.

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz 2 x 4MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor, $277.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115017

CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit, $100.00 ($60.00 after mir$40.00)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145034