Thursday, April 26, 2012

What video card do I need?

Hi, I recently got into editing and found out that my pc is outdated for such a hobby. So now I'm looking for a motherboard, video card, cpu and ram. I decided to go for i5 for the cpu (bad idea?), go 2gb DDR3, motherboard (any advice?) and some video card. My budget is around $400. Any ideas which ones to get?

Thank-you!|||Here's what I think is good for you. And no the Intel Core i5 isn't a bad idea. AMD's are good for editing also too. And are rather cheap.



CPU and cooler : http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealD…



Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…



Video Card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…



Ram: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…



It does come out to around $438 though >_<. Intel is expensive.





Look at these ones for AMD though



CPU and RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealD…



Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…



CPU Cooler: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…



Video Card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…



Now as you can see I gave you a Dual Core Processor. That processor actually has 2 HIDDEN cores. And that motherboard has technology that can unlock those two hidden cores making it a quad core processor. And I think it all came together when I added the OCZ Black Edition RAM because of the Black Edition Processor.



Glad to help.|||Well, $400 for i5 is quite low. Most LGA 1156 motherboards are around $100 and up. The lowest end i5 is about $200...



Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…



CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…

Because you're doing lots of editing, a quad-core would be pretty useful.



RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…

Sadly, you'd have to skimp on the Video card, with only $60 left in budget.



Video Card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…



If you'd like to spend less, you could go with i3? Or maybe an AMD processor.



AMD Build:



CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…



Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…



Ram: Same as above



The $50 cheaper processor leaves you $100 for a better video card.

Video Card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…



Give it a thought, the better video card is likely to be better for gaming.

But the better processor is better for other purposes.|||build it yourself!



Antec 300 Case

MSI 880GMA E45 Motherboard

4GB Corsair DDR3 1333 2 x 2GB RAM

AMD Phenom II X2 555BE 3.2GHZ core unlocked also overclocked @ 3.5GHZ

XFX Radeon HD 5770 1GB Graphics Card

Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA2 HDD

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?u…



Also check out at Ebay

http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-…|||Here are a couple online parts stores, I've ordered stuff from both sites and never had a problem.



As to what you should buy depends on your current system.. look up your motherboard specs and see what its max. stats are|||you would want a decent motherboard, nothing flashy though. About a $50-$70 grahpics card, and probably about 4 gigs of ram.

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