Please help me

[aydinokan]

Hello there
i am a new member and need some help...
i am interested in video editing and encoding with using some video programs as adobe premier and etx...

i want to buy a nex pc.But i cant decide to buy whether a P or AMD?

i want to learn the best specification for making video...i want to make a short film...please inform me about the specifications, graphic cards, cpu and other things...

thanks a lot...

[geno888]

I'm not an expert on these things, but I think that people here would know also what budget you have to answer to your question

[aydinokan]

in my country prices are different.money is not a problem for a while.first of all i want to learn which is the best for me.
thanks...

[Chewy]

For video work get the best, an amd dual core processor.
You get 2 cpu's(dual core) fo a little more than the price of one!
All the newer programs are going that way. Intel makes an inferior
product, but in 6 months that may change.
If that's too expensive, the amd64 and P4 are pretty close in performance.

[anonymez]

aydinokan, if you're going to be using the PC for nothing but encoding, the P4's are generally slightly faster than the athlons. but the athlons don't run as hot, use less power and thus will likely last longer. i'd go with an athlon.

AMD's dual-core is great. Intel's is not. (guess i'd play safe and say "IMO" here )

for ram, go at least 1GB (2GB much better), the more the better, the faster the better.

for graphics cards, if you don't do any gaming, go with a geforce 6200. go higher if you have extra cash, but it won't affect dv editing performance.

for hard disks, go SATA if possible.

[aydinokan]

one more question?

thank you dear friends but i have one more question.
i want to learn more about the graphic cards.there are so many graphic cards. 128 or 256 mb, 128 or 256 bit and AGP or PCI-Ex? i do not gaming.i will use my pc for just typical office programs and "(most important)" for editing movie. so which graphic card is the best for me? For example there is : 256 MB ASUS EX.AX700 TD PCI Exp or many other cards...what about they? please inform me...

Thank you so much.

[anonymez]

like i said in my previous post, go with something low-end. the cheap 128mb geforce 6200 will do, it has dxva, and that is all you'll need

you might as well go for pci-e, as its the standard now. won't make a difference if its 128mb or 256mb in your case

[Chewy]

I even like the new pci-e which share system memory, finally an excellent application for all that bandwidth

[geno888]

Another thing that can be useful for you is a very large storage system: video stuff is real space consuming on harddrives.

If you can afford, should consider also a controller to create a large storage system with more harddrives running together (create a raid system can add speed and security).

[Chewy]

"(create a raid system can add speed and security)."
geno ,
that takes 4 hard drives

[geno888]

"(create a raid system can add speed and security)."
geno ,
that takes 4 hard drives

aydinokan sayd that have a sufficient budget, and anyway 4 harddrive will give sufficient harddrive space to store all video stuff.

With a set of 300 GB is possible to build a very large storage unit (and video stuff require many disc space)

[Chewy]

a raid 0+1 isn't the easiest to maintain or setup
system administrator or server technology
and with the advent of serial drives not very practical

I have seen so many stripes broken and mirrors hosed by noob's
I don't reccomend either anymore.

[geno888]

It's also possible to use not-raid controllers. The thing I was suggesting is to build an high capacity storage system because video stuff require many space.

[Chewy]

A few motherboards have dual serial controllers allowing 4 serial hard drives
which would give you over a tetrabyte.

[geno888]

For what I know, most of HD controllers integrated on mainboards are raid ones. Do you think that using JBOD mode is sure instead of a not-raid controller that use individual discs?