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gaer42

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Hi,
I recentaly started up a Film company in East Stroudsburg, and an currently running only a 1.2 gig Amd with 512 megs of ram and a 128 nforce video card.

I want to build a faster Intel system. One capable of handling masive video editing in Adobe programs as well as rendering, and capturing with out over heating and taking 4 years to render a 2 min project.

I also do not have a lot of money, actually I only have approx 800 to spare at the moment. I was hoping that someone would be able to help me out with some really good sites for good quality cheep parts.

Thanks

e-mail: gaer42@hotmail.com
site: http://www.archonfilms.com
aol: magnuslee42
 
Can you be more specific about what parts you currently have, so we know what parts are reusable, assuming you're going to salvage parts from the old computer.

Ram: what speed? type?
Videocard: nforce is a motherboard. so you have integrated video on the motherboard?
Harddrive: speed, size?
CD/DVD roms: ??
Case: brand, model, what size motherboard will it hold ATX, micro ATX
Powersupply: watts? brand?

Then I can give you a great list of components for a supa computer, I'd recommend Newegg.com
 
Where is east stroudsburg??

Hit newegg.com or zipzoomfly.com.

or check the Forsale forums here.
 
Ram: The ram is crucial pc 2700, i think it is 333
Videocard: Xfx gforce 5200 with 128 megs of ram
Harddrive: 80 gig maxtor 7200 rpms
CD/DVD roms: Dvd Burner <4x burn, 12 x read>
Case: desktop atx board compatable
Powersupply: No name brand, and not very powerful

I was planning on using some of the parts, but to keep the minimum in this one, i have some older 256 dimms that I wanna throw in this one and use this for only net surfing. I want my new one to be only for video and graphic capturing, and editing.

Thanks for the help in advance.

The Site: http://www.archonfilms.com
The e-mail: gaer42@hotmail.com
The aol: magnuslee42
 
Prices from Newegg.com

2.8C Pentium 4 - Northwood ---- $183.00 (will OC to 3.2-3.5Ghz)
Abit IS-7 ------------------------------ $96.99
Geil Golden Dragon 3200 ---------$185.00 (1Gb - 2x512MB sticks)
Western Digital 120GB SATA -----$107.00
Aspire Case (link to find right one) -- $48.00
EVGA GeForce FX 5900SE ------- $188.00
onboard sound & LAN
350W PSU included in case
HSF = included w/ retail CPU

TOTAL =============== $807.99
+ shipping (probably like $20)

estimate $828

Granted there are other ways to go. Since you're in the Strictly Intel forum I assume you want Intel and hopefully fan boys wont come crap on this thread. As far as the videocard its the cheapest "HIGH END" part.

So that is what I would build if I had $800 to spend today on a computer. If you like overclocking and your temps are holding you back from OC'ing you can upgrade to a Zalman 7000 CU later.
 
Thank you. I have two questions though,
1. I have a Xfx 5200 video card, and i have never heard of them till i bought it, and it is not that great. How is EVGA GeForce FX 5900SE, are their stuff reliable, and should I go with the Radion 9600se 128 instead, cause i found a site selling them for approx $99?

2. Also i have bought no name ram before and had problems with that also. Im not sure about Geil Golden Dragon 3200, are they a reliable company?

Thanks

The site: http://www.archonfilms.com
The e-mail: gaer42@hotmail.com
The aol: magnuslee42
 
I have used both in my rigs. I have an eVGA 5900 (non ultra) in my main rig. It runs great.

I also built a computer with the Geil Golden Dragon in it. They're fine.

Burn a bootable floppy with memtest on it, for testing stability.

1. assemble computer, plug in, boot up... use memtest disk to check for stability. IF all is good at default clocks, install OS (winXP)

2. install intel chipset drivers, device drivers, then windows updates

3. overclock.. go up gradually, test using memtest, then Prime95 once in windows.

4. if your computer passes 30 minutes of memtest and 1 hour of Prime95 you should be good to go.
 
Ok, Ill try that one out and If i have any questions ill ask, especiallay about the over clocking, because i have not done much with that. Thanks, It seems like a really good system.
 
If your doing rendering, I wouldn't overclock very agressively or none at all. Nothing is worse than having to start over a 5 hour rendering job because your computer was ever so slightly unstable.
 
If you're not going to overclock, consider the Intel brand boards. They're supposed to very stable and fast at stock speeds.
 
He's going to overclock or I'm going to kick his ass!!

:)

Besides if it can run Prime95 (for as many hours as your max render takes) it will run any rendering software with out a glitch.

And actually if it can run Prime for an hour its usually good for ANYTHING. (unless you have really poor case ventilation and heat builds up over time)
 
Lol, themz fightin words....

I am going to take your advice and overclock, whats the worst that can happen, it gets unstable and i bring the Oc down a bit.

Btw, what is prime?
 
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