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Postby Stoic » Mon Feb 24, 2003 1:46 am

Ram: Get RD Atleast a Gig. You'll be paying more, but RD has always benchmarked better than DDR.

But then again I splurge on computer parts, and not much else. Heh 90% of my pay check goes to PC Parts / Software.

DDR is ok but RD is faster. People will call me crazy (they do it anyway) But they don't realize is that the reason RD isn't mainstream is still, it's too damn expensive, and the P4 doesn't have a fast enough bus to keep up with it.

Oh and get a couple of them WD 200 Gigabyte hard Drive with the 8 mb cache. The extra space will really help ya out when you are working with a bunch of series :)
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Postby Professional 666 » Mon Feb 24, 2003 3:31 am

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Postby WilLoW :--) » Mon Feb 24, 2003 3:35 am

Corran Productions wrote:
trythil wrote:I edit on my TI-86.

ph33r the blisteringly-fast 8 megahertz Z80 processor. Respect my 96kB of RAM.

Booyah.


The Ti-89 is far superior. :wink: Actually though I use a TI-83+



my TI-92 has a larger screen. definitely the best choice.
you can easily edit high quality black and white 8*8 videos, in real time.
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Postby Mr Pilkington » Mon Feb 24, 2003 12:32 pm

Ram: No less than 512 but perferably 2GB of....
P4 - RD (Rambus)
XP/MP - SDDDR 333

CPU:
P4 - More expencive, but speeds in excess of 2.8GHz out proforms Athlon
MP - Cheeper Daul CPU. Can handle 64 arcitecture.
XP - Cheepest, slowest. Will get the job done.

Duron - For video editing? Why bother?
Celeron - (ditto)

Motherboards:
P4 - Gigabyte. If unafordable, then why are you going p4?
MP - Tyan or Gigabyte.
XP - Asus

HDD:
ATA 133 - Maxor (8MB Cache) or Western Didigtal (8MB Cache) in excess of 120GB. WD is quieter but more expencive, for the budget consious Maxtor might be the HDD of choice.
SATA - Seagate, currently the only SATA HDD worth a shit.
SCSI - Ultra 160/Ultra 320, Seagate or IBM. Go with the 50 or 80GB versions and double/tripple/four-ple them up on a Raid 0 configuration. Anything higher is mondo expencive.
USB/Firewire - Western Digital in excess of 100GB

Video Cards:
Radeon all the way! The 9700's are sweet, but best I can tell the 9500s are just as good and $100 cheeper. I like to stick with "all in wonder," but for those with a desire for more the DV500 comes highly recomeneded.

Sound Cards:
Soundblaster Audigy - For the audiophiles of the world this is THE sound card. If you have no need for the live-drive, don't blow a wad on the Platinum verions. Get a good OEM card. Same exact thing, no live-drive.
Soundblaster Live - Still great, just not as great. And once again if you desire not the live-drive Go OEM.
Soundblaster Exdigy - Good external drive for those of you who have cluttered your PC with cards. But it will eventually get in the way.

Hand Held Perifs:
Razer Boomslang - If you desire the best of the best this is for you. I peronally counld't live without. Faster and far more precise than a traditional ball mouse. But it has a demand on the user, keep thi thing clean or it will make you life a living hell.
Contour Shuttle Pro - this handy little doodad is quite the life AND CLICK saver it works in a ton of programs: Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, Dreamweaver, and tons more! But at $120 it ain't cheep.

Networking:
10/100 - It really doesn't matter who or what you go with, as long as you spend more than $15 on a card.
Gigabit - Queen bitch of home network cards. A 10/100/1000 ethernet card should cost more than $50, unless you go with something absolutly nuts like fiberoptics. Infact everything for a gigbit ethernet set up will run 2-3 times what a 10/100 would. The best is to go with a fiberoptic card though. Nearly lossless! But at a high price, nearly everything for a fiberotic network weill cost you 5-10 fold what a 10/100 would run.
802.11b - Wireless-licios! Only 11Mbps, as compared to 10/100 topside 100 Mbps. But fun none the less. Some wicked perks however!
802.11g - 54 Mbps and backwards compatable with 802.11b systems! Truly this is the wireless system to have. But costs nearly twice what a 802.11b system would. At 2.4 Ghz fun the enitre neigborhood can share!
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Postby klinky » Mon Feb 24, 2003 1:35 pm

I posted some stuff in Ashton's New Comp Setup thread :

http://www.animemusicvideos.org//phpBB/ ... hp?t=10742
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Postby The Non-Professional » Sat Mar 01, 2003 4:50 pm

(Sorry for the necro post)

Now that I got a good Idea of what System specs I need, can someone recommend some good programs? (Premiere, AVIsyth ect...)
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Postby Larg0 » Mon Mar 03, 2003 12:18 am

My setup seems to be a rare one but it works like a dream. I have a Power Mac with dual 1.25 G4 processors, 1 gig of DDR RAM, 280 gig HD, Geforce 4 Ti 128, Superdrive (DVD-R/CD-RW), and two 17" displays (one CRT, one LCD). If you are new to editing video you could make a respectable AMV with iMove 3 but otherwise I wouls suggest picking up Final Cut Pro 3. Oh yeah, and of course, I am running OS X (10.2.4) on my machine.

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Postby CaTaClYsM » Mon Mar 03, 2003 12:27 am

Actually, I'd say the important thing isn't space so much as speed when it comes to a HD,

P4 3.06 with hyperthreading
2 gigs of rambus memory
a raid setup with plenty of 36 gig cheeta hard drives.
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