Tech Advice sought

[ProfQ]

Hi Group: newbie/oldie question here. I need a new desktop machine to
run Adobe Audition 3.0 as well as digital video editing software. I will
be purchasing Vista Ultimate 64, Adobe Audition 3.0, digital video
editing software, probably something like Cyberlink DVD editing, and I
need a good/fast processor, good/fast main board, large amount of RAM,
say 10GB, and medium-large hard drive (about 750GB-1000GB), an excellent
video graphics card as well as an excellent audio rendering card for 5.1
surround sound. I'd like a 17" - 19" flat screen, infrared keyboard and
infrared mouse.

Are there any tech-savvy readers who could possibly please direct me -
but I do not wish to spend more than $3000 on the entire system,
excluding software.

Ian Samson
PC User since DOS2
iansamson@gmail.com

 

[Bobby Johnson]

Re: Tech Advice sought

Your question is really not appropriate for this forum.
Your asking for a system design, which is hardware. This is
a software forum for questions directly related to the
function of 64-bit Windows operating systems.

You will need to do some research on your own on the
internet, or, consult with a local computer shop that
specializing in designing systems.


ProfQ wrote:
> Hi Group: newbie/oldie question here. I need a new desktop machine to
> run Adobe Audition 3.0 as well as digital video editing software. I will
> be purchasing Vista Ultimate 64, Adobe Audition 3.0, digital video
> editing software, probably something like Cyberlink DVD editing, and I
> need a good/fast processor, good/fast main board, large amount of RAM,
> say 10GB, and medium-large hard drive (about 750GB-1000GB), an excellent
> video graphics card as well as an excellent audio rendering card for 5.1
> surround sound. I'd like a 17" - 19" flat screen, infrared keyboard and
> infrared mouse.
>
> Are there any tech-savvy readers who could possibly please direct me -
> but I do not wish to spend more than $3000 on the entire system,
> excluding software.
>
> Ian Samson
> PC User since DOS2
> iansamson@gmail.com

 

[Jeff Gaines]

Re: Tech Advice sought

On 28/08/2008 in message <g9742o$tee$1@registered.motzarella.org> ProfQ
wrote:

>Are there any tech-savvy readers who could possibly please direct me - but
>I do not wish to spend more than $3000 on the entire system, excluding
>software.

It would be worth finding a homebuilt or hardware group -
uk.comp.homebuilt is very good, I don't know if there is a US equivalent?

--
Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK
You can't tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks

 

[Clayton]

Re: Tech Advice sought

That was nice of Jeff to point ProfQ in the right direction.


"Jeff Gaines" <whitedragon@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
news:xn0fuhlbkb6pnt000@msnews.microsoft.com...
> On 28/08/2008 in message <g9742o$tee$1@registered.motzarella.org> ProfQ
> wrote:
>
>>Are there any tech-savvy readers who could possibly please direct me - but
>>I do not wish to spend more than $3000 on the entire system, excluding
>>software.
>
> It would be worth finding a homebuilt or hardware group -
> uk.comp.homebuilt is very good, I don't know if there is a US equivalent?
>
> --
> Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK
> You can't tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks

 

[Jud Hendrix]

Re: Tech Advice sought

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:07:20 +0200, ProfQ <pseudo@intelligence.info>
wrote:

Ian

For video editing I would recommend to stay away from Vista, and stick
to XP. There are few programs which run well on Vista 64. Drivers is a
main concern when you're using special video hardware.
Vista has unfortunately to much overhead for time-critical
applications like video-editing. Maybe if you spend hours/days in
killing all non-necessary backgroundtasks etc etc, you can get a
reasonably decent running system, but it's just a waste of time if yo
can do the same job in XP without much tweaking.

cheers

jud