Money Is No Option, What To Buy.....

[CooledByWater]

I am posing this question to you all for a friend.

My friend needs to build a fast, but reliable system for editing movies. What would you all recommend for, Processor, Video Card, Mother Board, Memory, Operating System, Sound Card, DVD Burner, Power Supply, Heatsink, etc? You get the idea. Water-cooling is out of the picture so it will have to be air-cooling. Overclocking may or may not be an option depending on the noise. System will be built using either an Antec or one of the same designed cases.

[Kaitain]

This might be one of those applications where you'd be best of deciding what software to buy first, and getting the best hardware to suit.

[cloasters]

A dual processor workstation with 2Gb+ of Memory and Ultra 320 SCSI drives from SGI may be a better choice. x86 is so limited. Move on up to big iron!

[Holst]

Originally posted by Kaitain
This might be one of those applications where you'd be best of deciding what software to buy first, and getting the best hardware to suit.

yep i agree,

If your video editing then a fast AMD system with a very god quality DV card will be the best bet.

DV cards are usually a pain when sharing interupts, so motherboard chice will be tricky.

it may be that a commercial DV solution may be a better bet than a self build..

[muzz]

I thought the Inhell P4 was better at stuff like that....?

[mookydooky]

Originally posted by muzz
I thought the Inhell P4 was better at stuff like that....?

I think you're right. High speed P4 with some RDRAM should provide a better stream than an Athlon.

[YARDofSTUF]

Money is no option? is that like no problem or a big problem?

If its no problem why not go with 2-4gigs of rd ram like mooky said and get a 3ghz p4 for the HTing, adaptec scsicard and some cheetah scsi hdds, and a semi pro pinacle video editing card.

would be pricey

[cloasters]

Pentium shmentium. Go Octane 2 from Silicon Graphics. Dual 64-Bit MIPS processors(RISC) each with 2 Mb of L2 cache and a total of 8 Gb of SDRAM. What's not to like? dubya dubya dubya dot sgi.com/workstations .

The Silicon Graphics Fuel, TM is worth thinking about. It's less expensive. One MIPS CPU with a 4 Mb L2 cache, 4 Gb of RAM. It features a 200 Mhz FSB, too.

Your friend does speak Unix, ya?

[CooledByWater]

This is where we are at. What are your thoughts. The bottom line, this is for putting DV movies together mainly hunting videos using a Canon XL 1s DV camera.

MSI K7D Master-L Dual CPU

Athlon MP 2600+ 2.13 MHZ X (2)

Promise SATA RAID FastTrak S150 TX4 Controller

Seagate ST3120023AS 120 GB Hard Drives X (4)

PC Power & Cooling 510 Watt

Matrox Parhelia 256MB Triple-RGB, Dual-DVI

Terratec DMX 6Fire ( Sound Card)

Memory PC 2100 2 Gigs

ANTEC SOHO File ServerTower

IBM 9.4/4.7GB IDE DVD-RAM

PlexWriter 48X24X48A R/RW

SONY 1.44MB 3.5 INCH INTERNAL FDD DRIVE

Microsoft Natural Multimedia Keyboard & Wheel Mouse Optical

XP Pro SP1

Thermalright SLK-800(A) HEAT SINK CPU X (2)

Panasonic Panaflo Axial Fan 80x80x25.5mm, Ball Bearing, DC 12V, 2.08W, 2950 RPM, 39.6 CFM, 32.0 dB X (6)



SONY CRT MONITOR CPD-E540 21 inch $490.00 EACH (2)

VIEWSONIC VX900 19" LCD MONITOR $745.00 EACH (2)

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[cloasters]

Shazam, that's a very impressive list of components!

[CooledByWater]

I do believe this is what he has decided on,

Tyan Tiger i7505 Dual Motherboard

Intel Xeon Processor 3.06 Mhz. (2)

Seagate ST3120023AS 120 GB Hard Drives X (2)

Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 250 GB ATA 133 Hard Drive (1 or 2)

PC Power & Cooling 510 Watt

Avid Software

Matrox Parhelia 256 MB Dual Head Video Card

Terratec DMX 6Fire ( Sound Card)

Samsung Memory PC 2100 2 Gigs

ANTEC SOHO File ServerTower

IBM 9.4/4.7GB IDE DVD-RAM

PlexWriter 48X24X48A R/RW

Microsoft Natural Multimedia Keyboard & Wheel Mouse Optical

XP Pro SP1

[Allan]

Whoa thats going to be expensive! Any way you can persuade him to fold for team 45 on it? While we are at it, that Tbred of yours could really hammer out some units too...

[cloasters]

As the budget for this monster box isn't stunted, may I suggest leaving any Tyan board on the dealer's shelf? They just ain't first class. Spend a few hundred more for an Intel Server board that sports a Serverworks chipset. It's probable that a SMP mainboard that's optimised for File Serving is better for Video duty than one optimised as a Web Server. Find out about this! It's even possible that a Workstation mainboard is better than any Server m'board for Video editing duties. You have to know--before saying bah-bye to the money!

Tyan's are fine for enthusiast's that want a dual processor rig without breaking the bank. Avoid Tyan for a professional machine, IMHO. Make sure of what RAM the m'board he or she decides on needs. Registered RAM is needed by most Server mainboards. It doesn't cost much more than plain DDR, from Crucial.

[CooledByWater]

Originally posted by Allan
Whoa thats going to be expensive! Any way you can persuade him to fold for team 45 on it? While we are at it, that Tbred of yours could really hammer out some units too...

My machine already is folding along with four others.

[SiGmA_X]

I'd go Quad Xeon with 4x73GB SCSI 320 drives.