Advice on buying the right PC?

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The tech spec looks pretty good - it's got plenty of memory and a good chipset.

Has he considered a mac based system (many video editors seem to go down the mac route.)
 
No Blu-Ray burner. If he's serious about HD video editing, sooner or later he'll probably want to burn a Blu-Ray disk.

Greg

Edit: Blu-Ray burner £180 extra
 
What sort of video format is he planning on editing. If it's AVCHD ( Sony/Panasonic ) he will need fairly massive computing power to edit it without converting the format, which will mean a loss of quality. Last time I checked they were suggesting dual quad core processors for this.
 
would not buy a dell, we've had more hassle with them than I care to mention. HP dual core with loads of memory, ram and fast access storage, it'll be similar money to the dell but will just work.

it's not the ingest, moving the virtual files or the assembly... it's the render time that'll kill you....

or get a MAC with an MXO2 and extra hard disc...

As for all the other crap about buy this that and the other, forget it....

portable storage is way simpler, unless you've got the horn for waiting for a Bluray DVD's to render which is even slower.
 
I hear the sound of little Fanboi hooves as they gallop towards this thread to spout a load of blinkered tosh about buying a Mac

Don't listen to them (apart from Lo-IQ - he actually knows what he's talking about) :D
 
Apologies, I have nothing to add on the 'which PC' question.

But what the hell is 'casual gaming'? Jeans and trainers? Is there an opposite - 'black tie' gaming?

Sorry, carry on.
 
He has now had a change of heart. He has been doing a bit of research on building a computer himself and has discovered that he can get a lot more for his money with this approach.
A mate of mine, who is currently not accessible, built one for me a few years back. He is an electrical engineer and his day job is designing electronic equipment and building prototypes so he knew what he was doing. I watched him and I have to say it didn`t seem THAT difficult.
Is this madness and likely to go pearshaped or is it doable?
 
MarkShelley said:
He has now had a change of heart. He has been doing a bit of research on building a computer himself and has discovered that he can get a lot more for his money with this approach.
A mate of mine, who is currently not accessible, built one for me a few years back. He is an electrical engineer and his day job is designing electronic equipment and building prototypes so he knew what he was doing. I watched him and I have to say it didn`t seem THAT difficult.
Is this madness and likely to go pearshaped or is it doable?
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it's not hard to build one, but it's next to impossible to do it for the same money as the big boys sell them for.

best thing about building your own, is you can choose exactly what goes into it.
 
cookie said:
it's not hard to build one, but it's next to impossible to do it for the same money as the big boys sell them for.

best thing about building your own, is you can choose exactly what goes into it.
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Agree that it is easy to build one yourself. Everything is modular so it's just a Lego kit, provided all the bits work from scratch. But Cookie is right, in that you will not be able to build one as cheap as say Dell or Gateway, etc. You just don't have the economies of scale.

If you want a PC with a specific design for gaming or video editing, etc. then you may want to build the PC yourself. You may also consider buying a ready made (Dell, etc.) PC and just changing or adding a board into the PC if you need the extra functionality, but you would have to know exactly what is already in the ready made PC, before you go down that route.

Also, if you are using Windows 7, you will be unlikely to get it anywhere as cheap as the likes of Dell can source it. But if you are going Linux, then you won't need to pay for an unwanted copy of Win 7, etc.

Grey Beard
 
Have built loads of P.C's myself but you don't save a lot of money doing it (but you can allocate more money on the parts that you require and less on what you don't...
Only problem you might have with 1st build is installing the processor and using the correct qty of heat sink compound, not too much or too little..
Have bought loads of bits from the link below, they also do pre built .
Dell tend to use non standard boards and small cases so if you want to up-grade later you are limited.

www.overclockers.co.uk
 
Nippy Normans supply Touratech, Wunderlich, Desert Fox and many other makes of accessories.
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