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Posted by: darthrevan96
Posted by: Truth of TX
I need a PC build that will be good for the -blam!- load of video editing I will be doing. Also, my budget is $2,000. Any help?
Buy two 1000 dollar PCs, and send one to me :D
Anyways, I'll give you a build...
Z77-DS3H
32GB RAM (because why not?)
i7 3770k
ZOTAC GTX 680 2GB
Thermaltake Level 10 GT Snow Edition Full Tower
Rosewill LIGHTNING Series LIGHTNING-1000 1000W PSU
BluRay Drive
Seagate 3TB HDD
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit
Thermaltake CLP0598 92mm Contact 16 CPU Cooler
TP-LINK TL-WN951N Wireless N Adapter (Give your Desktop Wifi :D)
It come out to $1,976.39
One heck of a build, you can make toast with it.
If you knock the Blu-ray down to your standard DVD+RW and take the 32GB down to 8GB, take the PSU down to 800w, you can probably fetch a nice SSD to store the OS for fast applications and booting, as well as data transfer.
I'll also give some reasons why these adjustments are only dead weight.
32 GB is far too much for any processor to handle at speed. Sometimes, Less is More. See, when Processors read the RAM, they read the dead space too. And like hell is ANY processor going to use 32 GB of RAM.
Think of it like this.
The RAM is a corridor, with classrooms on the side, the processor is the principal going around to check the classrooms, and the length of the corridor is how far your processor has to walk and back to complete a check. Walking 32 metres back and forth is going to take much longer than walking 8 meters back and forth, and only upto about 7 or 8 metres, the classrooms end and there is no doors to check on. Processors read the dead space too, even if they're not using it. RAM is only useful when it's being used. Don't put more than you need because it's going to slow down your system.
I chose 800 Watts because you only picked a motherboard with 2x16 PCI-E slots. 750-800 watts are able to handle 2 of that card in SLI. You won't need a thousand unless you were planning on Triple SLI, and that motherboard isn't compatible with triple SLI.
Blu-Ray really is down to the user. With netflix and HD DVDs, getting a computer to work is priority, upgrading the drive to Blu-ray should be something of an afterthought or an upgrade you decide to get halfway. If you have no Blu-Ray DVDs or don't plan to watch Blu-Ray on your PC, there's absolutely no use for it. I wouldn't suggest it, but the builder should be able to figure out if they want it for themselves. For me, a Blu-Ray drive would serve no more purpose than my current DVD+RW.