Ultimate AMV Machine

RedFusionX · Post by **RedFusionX** » Wed Jun 04, 2003 6:15 am

Has anyone checked out Alienware's site They have a video editing machine that screams, I found it when I was ordering my new laptop

http://www.alienware.com/system_pages/2001dv.aspx

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Wed Jun 04, 2003 8:48 am

I wouldn't call it the best... especially at that price...

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Wed Jun 04, 2003 8:53 am

That's a pretty big waste of money there. I think you could do about $1,000 better.

~klinky

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Wed Jun 04, 2003 9:22 am

Online prices:
$414 P4 3.0Ghz 800Mhz
$166 Intel® D875PBZ
$77ea Kingston 512MB Pc3200 DIMM x2
$123ea 120GB Barracude x 2
$850 Geforce Quadro FX1000
$228 Plextor PX-504A
$70 Audigy 2
$100 ANTEC case
$50 nice keyboard mouse
$140 Windows XP Pro
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$2418

This system is "overkill". Not in a good sense. It uses overly inflated priced parts. Quadro FX1000? This is not going to help you with NLE. Maybe if you were into CAD/3DSMax yes, it would help a bit. But $850? You could build your brother decent system for $850.

As for P4 3.0C $414 for the processor alone? It's top of the line sure. It supports a 800mhz bus which does help it in multimedia benchmarks when Hyperthreading is enabled(of course Hyperthreading in other applications may cause a performance decrease).

My suggestion, if you're willing to pay all that money I would spring for dual Athlon MPs. Get rid of the Quadro and get a standarded Radeon 9700/9800, Geforce FX, or even get a dinky Geforce2 Mx for $30 if you don't care about gaming. Spend the left over money on extra hard drive space and a nice monitor.

~klinky

RedFusionX · Post by **RedFusionX** » Wed Jun 04, 2003 10:15 am

I know, I am using my gaming desktop for AMVs and games, and I am planning on getting that mainly because I need top performance for both. As for the price, many things can be changed to lower it, But I thought it was cool

SS5_Majin_Bebi · Post by **SS5_Majin_Bebi** » Wed Jun 04, 2003 8:52 pm

jeez, I'm editing fairly well with an AMD Athlon XP 1800+, 256mb Kingston DDR Ram (PC 2700 i think) a 40gb hard drive (maxtor....::shudder::) and a GeForce 2 video card, DVD-ROM and a crappy capture card. Its a little sluggish due to the lack of RAM, i'm using Premiere 6.5 which is a resource whore, but I manage.

the Black Monarch · Post by **the Black Monarch** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 5:52 am

That rig is not much better than my current laptop, which is over 6 months old. You should check out a dual-CPU system, now THOSE things kick ass.

Dannywilson · Post by **Dannywilson** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 2:00 pm

I'm re-assembling my beast tonight or tomorrow. Dual Athlon MP 2200's, 1gb of pc2700 ddr ram, 16x Pioneer DVD rom, 52x20x52 Yamaha burner, Geforce 4 Ti 4200, 60gb hard drive(If I need more, i use space on my 140gb server tower), and my Asus dual proc mobo burnt itself to shit, so I'm going with a MSI dual proc board.

Needless to say, when it was working last, I could encode in uncompressed 720x480 through Premiere at 20fps and Xvid at 70+.

the Black Monarch · Post by **the Black Monarch** » Fri Jun 06, 2003 2:44 pm

One of these days, I'm going to build a quad-CPU system for video editing. Quad Opterons would rock so much ass!

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Fri Jun 06, 2003 3:36 pm

Oh yeah? Well I'm editing with a 15 gig HD and 128 mb RAM! Using a DVD-ROM drive and Premiere 6.0... it's not all that quick.