I've been reading the guides, actually understanding some of them and am about to buy a new computer to start, er, attempt to make my first Anime Music Video! (My ever faithful but elderly Dell laptop just won't cut it anymore) Any advice would be very very much appreciated.
Here's what I was thinking of buying:
Dell Intel Pentium 4 w/ Hyper Threading Technology (Um, what is hyper threading technology? It sounds nifty and somewhat familiar)
Dimension 8400
Pentium® 4 Processor 630 with HT Technology (3GHz, 800 FSB)
Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition
1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz
320GB Performance RAID 0 (2 x 160GB SATA HDDs w/ Native Command Queuing) or
250GB Data Security RAID 1 (2 x 250GB SATA HDDs) or
500GB Performance RAID 0 (2 x 250GB SATA HDDs) (From what I've read on the forums here, RAID seems to be the way to go...but what does RAID 1 or RAID 0 mean?)
CD or DVD drive? Standard is a single Drive: 48X CD-ROM Drive. Do I need more? I can upgrade.
Videocard: 128MB PCI Express™ x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) ATI Radeon™ X300 SE or do I go with a 256MB PCI Express™ x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) nVidia GeForce 6800?
In addition, I will be purchasing Adobe Premiere. I already own one of the later editions of Adobe Photoshop. My understanding is that a Capture card is not necessary, because the captures are not as good quality as the straight .vob files. Right? Maybe?
Is there anything critical I'm missing? (no worries, I'll be getting a monitor too!) Anything on the list posted above that would inhibit my ability to make music videos?
Again, thanks for any advice!



