Video Editing

[nirbhayn]

HI
My budget is 1050 USD, i would like to make my PC for Video Editing purpose. plze list your configuration.s

[guns1inger]

memory - at least a GB, HDD - as much as you can afford across multiple drives. 3 x 100 GB drives is preferable to 1 x 300 GB drive, as there is performance to be gained by sending data from one drive to another instead of one drive to itself. If I was building again (and I hope to soon) I would probably look at a P4 instead of an AMD this time. While the top of the line AMDs will kill a P4 for general work, too many high-end apps are better tuned for the pentium line. Get a solid middle of the road graphics card - open GL/direct-X performance comes in handy for some editing work when 3d transitions and effects come into play, but going top of the line is a waste if you need to sacrifice other areas to do it.

[nirbhayn]

ok..forget the budget, if you were to get a pentium processor which 1 would you go? specific speed? are xeons any good

[guns1inger]

if money were no object ? Dual Xeon2's, 2 GB of the fastest server ram you can get, and as much disk as you cab fit in the case in a raid configuration (mixed raid 1/0) and the fastest nvidia workstation card you can get. Meanwhile, back in the real world . . . . . . .