Tech Advice sought

[Guest 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

[Guest 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

[Guest 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

[Guest 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

[Guest 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