Whats the best system to build

[zed]

Hi,

Im considering building a PC just for doing video /editing work, what specs does anyone recommend, i.e should i get a AMD 1.4ghz or a Pentium 4 1.xghz etc

Look forward to your comments

Zed

[kitty]

From what I read I am looking at the following type of system:

Dual pentium 4 or athlon processors (MB + chips ~$600)
Windows XP pro (multiprocessing)
512MB RAM min
DVD & CD-RW drives (plextor would be nice)
2 60 GB drives (one OS, 1 for movie making)
Firewire (SCSI would be nice too)

Would dual processors and the SMP of XP be good - we'd see

[hitechjunkie]

one recommendation put out by the videoguys as of feb 2001

[incognito]

For faster, more heated responses, you should have
typed "AMD vs INTEL" or "Athlon Vs P4" in the
subject field.

[Vejita-sama]

No flame, but this kind of a silly tread because for home video editing, there's no such thing as too much Buy the biggest/fastest system you can afford.

Personally I like AMD over Intel (see other treads about that). For just video editing I think intel might have a slight edge Mhz/Mhz. But AMD is so much cheaper you can buy a much faster CPU and supports current PC133 ram (which costs nothing).

I have a Tbird 1.2Ghz 266FSB w/ 512MB PC133 ram (have another 512MB I plan to install when I upgrade to win2k), 60GB 7200 ATA100 HD, and a 40GB 7200 ATA100 HD. I can encode at 1~1.25x the source runtime with CCE.

As for video capture, it seems like a lot of people can caputre at 720x480 30fps w/ 500Mhz machines.

Now for linear/non-linear editing - the system is 'good enough.' Meaning I can setup, scroll, preview, spilt screen, etc. but there are pauses and waits to load. And I can't run anything in the back ground. This is with MovieXone and ULead.