Building PC....What should I get?

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Building PC....What should I get?

Postby shadow-the-hedgehog » Tue Jan 28, 2003 12:51 am

I am building a PC what video card/audio card should I get? As well as monitor and HDD?
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Postby klinky » Tue Jan 28, 2003 1:10 am

Video and Audio = Whatever you want, it won't make a difference when editing video as the CPU does the grunt work.

Monitor, what ever you want, whatever looks best to you.

Hard drive, anything that's 7200RPMs. I'd suggest atleast 80GB.


Are you building it yourself or buying it from someone like DELL or Gateway. If you're not building it yourself your options are limited to what models they have. I'd suggest you go check thier websites and get what ever system you can afford.


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Postby shadow-the-hedgehog » Tue Jan 28, 2003 1:32 am

I am buliding myself. But what video card or sound card have video and audio inputs.
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Postby klinky » Tue Jan 28, 2003 2:20 am

Well most audio cards have a line in and a mic jack in the pack. Something like a Sound Blaster Audigy or a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz are known good cards.

There are quite a few cards out there that support VIVO(Video In/ Video Out). How well they work I don't know. If you really plan on capurting your source footage then you'd probably want to get a *REAL* capture card from Pinnacle. As for which one to get, I really don't know as I don't capture.

It's a better idea to invest in a fast DVD-ROM drive & CPU along with a DVD collection of anime. DVD is easier to work with(well more people here can help with it since it's the most used option for getting quality source) & it looks prettier than captured source.

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Postby shadow-the-hedgehog » Tue Jan 28, 2003 2:30 am

How could I get the DVD footage then?
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Postby klinky » Tue Jan 28, 2003 2:54 am

What do you mean?


Get a DVD drive, that's it. There are guides off the main page on using DVDs for source.


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Postby Ashyukun » Tue Jan 28, 2003 9:07 am

Also, don't skimp on your memory. Your CPU will be doing the work, but if you've only got like 128MB of memory, it'll really slow you down. I think 512MB is generally considered a good number, and anything higher is even better.

Klinky's right- I'd only worry about a capture card if you've either got oodles of money to play with (in which case getting a DV500 would be a nice thing, the real-time effects are supposed to be nice and it comes with Premiere) or are going to be using VHS source for your videos. For DVDs, a DVD-ROM is both much cheaper and superior quality-wise. For outputting, a number of video cards (ATI, Nvidia, etc) have TV-output capabilities, though some of them don't do very high res. My GeForce2's TV output isn't bad, but I still prefer making a SVCD of my videos and recording to tape from that when I have to submit a tape entry to a contest.
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Postby RadicalEd0 » Tue Jan 28, 2003 9:57 am

get this:
AthlonXP 2700
200gb 7200rpm 8mb cache WD hdd
1024mb pc3700 DDR ram
Geoforce FX Ultra 128mb video card
SoundBlaster Live Platinum 5.1
Pioneer A05 DVD-R burner
24" LCD monitor
Kilpsch THX 5.1 speakers

that should only set you back a few k
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Postby Ashyukun » Tue Jan 28, 2003 10:27 am

*drool*

That's the DVD+/-R/RW burner isn't it?

If I were spending that much money on a system, I'd probably pick up a DV500 or (were I really not worrying about money) a VT2, a Contour Shuttle Pro (those just look like they'd be quite useful), and get two of those WD drives and RAID them.
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Postby RadicalEd0 » Tue Jan 28, 2003 10:49 am

actually with no limit $ you could get scsi hdds that would be sweet

Pioneer A05 is a 4x -R/RW burner, no need for +R :P
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Postby Rellik » Tue Jan 28, 2003 12:37 pm

Just a hint: Don´t get a DV500. It is a horrible card. We swapped out almost all components of a perfectly good system till it worked flawless. And it was used only with dv camera mind you so it shouldn´t have been that complicated.

But honestly, what do you intend to DO with the PC(besides editing) and what do you use a footage (VHS,LD,DVD)?

Don´t mean to be rude, but from your post you I gather this will be your first rig to build yourself?

I will be glad to offer a good list of components if you tell me what your budget is and what you need the pc for
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Postby shadow-the-hedgehog » Tue Jan 28, 2003 9:19 pm

Yes, it is my first PC....to build. I am also gonna use it for gaming, image creation and web design.
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Postby The Wired Knight » Tue Jan 28, 2003 10:40 pm

Biggest damn hard drive you can afford. That's just simple little advice from me ^_^ oh and a firewire port, those things are becoming more and more usefull every day.
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Postby Vlad G Pohnert » Wed Jan 29, 2003 1:32 am

Actually, I would get at least two 80 gig drives and a Promise ATA controller and run them each on a separate channel as video drives. Then you can put your system drive, burner / DVD drive on the motherboard. That way you have lots of HS space and also a independent drive to backup projects to (just ask people who's hard drive crash)

In terms of video capture card, there are a few options. Cards like the DV500 or Matrox X1000, etc are economical but for some they work great, for others they have nothing but horror stories to tell. Quite frankly, unless you want to spend huge $$$$$ for a rock solid editing system, there is no way to guarantee complete compatibility. If you do decide to get a capture card, ensure to research all the compatible MB and other add on cards to ensure it will work with them....

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Postby Rellik » Wed Jan 29, 2003 5:25 am

Some more info:

Storage: I agree with the above. Get one drive for OS and programs, and
another one for video only. Don´t go for too big single drives as you tend to loose much more spce after formating (80GB yields 75GB,120GB yields 111)
I would go with a 40 or 60 GB system drive and a 80GB capture drive. Put them on a promise ide pci card so you can use the pors on your mainboard for DVD-ROM and CD-burner.

Also, if you want to learn about good ways to capture footage from DVD and turning them into divx or mpeg, go to http://doom9.org

You need to decide at which level you are going to doing editing(I mean life-action DV, not AMV) If you just get started, get a Pyro DV Firewire card. It uses the Texas Instruments chip which works flawless and you can connect any DV cam as well as firewire harddrives. I just bought a 120 Maxtor 5000DV, which is a firewire HD. It is great for getting huge amounts of data from a to b as it works on every passive (The DV500 does not work as it is an active card only accepting cams) card.

Important parts:

512MB RAM. Don´t use any less. It is cheap now and editing projects eat
ram for breakfast.

a 19 inch monitor will certainly make it easier. I own a 17 inch one and it is a pain too edit on it.
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