Best Set-up

StaticSanity · Post by **StaticSanity** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 11:37 pm

I have the following setup, which works pretty well for me:

MSI board - 845 PE Max
CPU - 2.53Ghz P4
RAM - 1 gig DDR Kingston PC2700
HD PRIMARY - 2 older 20 gig WD drives in Raid 0 Striping setup (promise fasttrak100 controller)
HD SECONDARY - 120 gig 8mb WD
POWER - Antec 470 TruePower power supply
VIDEO - GeForce 3 TI500
SOUND - Soundblaster Audigy MP3
MONITOR - HITACHI SuperScan Elite 751 .22 19" monitor (I run 1280x960 @ 85hz)

I am pretty happy with it. The only thing I would replace if i could would be, as Synthangel suggested, two 120gig WD 8mb drives in raid-0. Or if you wonna go way over the top, raid two Cheetah X15-36LP drives of the highest capacity you can afford =P and use an extra 200mb wd for storage only.

Leanan · Post by **Leanan** » Mon Feb 24, 2003 12:10 am

I have a 1700 amd athlon xp
Seagate 80 gig hd (but I"m buying a Maxtor 120 soon)
17 inch monitor. Everything else I have no idea. It's not the best, but it has enough power for my needs.

Machine · Post by **Machine** » Mon Feb 24, 2003 12:36 am

Nightowl wrote:Wow. I'm so tempted to give real world advice here... but the last time I did that, I was simply flamed and ignored. Get whatever you want. You'll be misinformed by biased opinions no matter where you go.

It also depends on your budget.

I'm not bitter. No.

-N

Somebody was deprived of their alcohol today

Dannywilson · Post by **Dannywilson** » Mon Feb 24, 2003 12:47 am

Why does everyone think you Have to be "Rich" to run a decent system? I'm running a dual processor AMD 1.8ghz system, with 1024 ddr ram, an 80 gb WD hdd, a geforce 4 ti 4200, 16xDVDrom, and 44x40x52 CD-R. I bought a few of the parts each paycheck for about 3 months, and _then_ assembled it. It is extremely fun to edit on, encoding 720x480 xvid at roughly 35 fps, and 320x240 at over 100 fps. I can basically edit straight from the rips, no need to convert to Huffy no more.... thank god.. And on the Dual question, it doesnt take much power/time at all to use premeire and it doesnt even matter if youre running backround programs. Of course, the amount of Ram you have also playes a large part in this, as well as your pagefile, windows optomizations (XP mode is satan!

) and amount of backround work going on. But these are just my words.

Dannywilson · Post by **Dannywilson** » Mon Feb 24, 2003 12:51 am

Oh, and if you think my paychecks are large, Think again. I get less than 500 bucks every paycheck, for around 100 hours of work each pay period. Welcome to the wonderful life of the US military.

Stoic · Post by **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

Professional 666 · Post by **Professional 666** » Mon Feb 24, 2003 3:31 am

Don't assume I even get paychecks...

WilLoW :--) · Post by **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. 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.

Mr Pilkington · Post by **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!

klinky · Post by **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