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What does video editing/rendering stress most?

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My dad has been asking me advice about parts to get for this rig he's putting together on some performance build site. Problem is, i have no clue what demands video and image editing has on a machine.

He pretty much has no budget, i saw him at around 2300 bucks.

He's planning on using the best intel processor he can find, the HD 5970 he already owns, 8 gigs of ram, and an SSD for the operating system.

Is a Raid 0 on 10k rpm disks worth it? Is it good enough? Should he get multiple SSD's?

What other things should might he consider?

I appreciate your input and hope you don't mind the less specific nature of my questions.

Cheers :)
 
I think it should be enough.. try to get another monitor or make it triple monitors.. this should be really helpful in editing.
 
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 will take advantage of nVidia CUDA-Video cards w/1GB of memory or more. So he should really consider switching if he wants the GPU-assisted rendering that PP CS5 has. I'd go with at least a GTX 460. Link to GPU discussion

And CS5 is native 64 bit. I'd throw lots more RAM in there too if he's working in After Effects.

Can't answer on the SSDs for the video scratch drive... I was on RAID 0 7200rpm for a long time, now I'm back to single 2TB HDD and it's fine so far.
 
Basically what you want is a faster CPU. Video Editing and rendering does stress the CPU the most. However, as other have pointed out, Adobe CS5 will now use the GPU to help offload that stress a bit. So basicaly, that HD 5970 isn't a good choice if you're looking for max video editing performance.
 
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