Ok I have a budget of £2000 I need a PC for HD Video editing and converting video formats I no i will need a good CPU for this also is it good idea to get a overclocked cpu I heard there lifespan is not long ? I will also be playing games that require good graphics card ? In other words I want a really powerful PC but for under £2000
Help PC For Video Editing & Gaming ?
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Should manage that easily if you're buying from here.
And yes overclocking 'can' shorten the lifespan of a product as you're essentially making it work harder therefore it can degrade quicker. That said there are some 'safe' levels of OC'ing and the main issue is heat, if you can control the heat well it shouldnt be an issue
And yes overclocking 'can' shorten the lifespan of a product as you're essentially making it work harder therefore it can degrade quicker. That said there are some 'safe' levels of OC'ing and the main issue is heat, if you can control the heat well it shouldnt be an issue
Hello shadowman, welcome to our forums 
You're correct to some extent about overclocking, and with a budget of £2,000 you can put together a great spec. I assume you want the base unit only (no monitor, keyboard & mouse, but if you do just let us know). Here's my ideal spec:
Case
STYLISH BLACK ALUMINIUM TRIGON CASE + 2 FRONT/SIDE USB (Special Offer)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Six Core Processor i7-970 (3.20GHz) 6.4GTs/12MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® P6X58D-E: DDR3, USB 3.0, SATA 6.0GB/s, 3-Way SLI
Memory (RAM)
12GB SAMSUNG DDR3 TRI-DDR3 1333MHz (6 x 2GB)
Graphics Card
1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX460 GDDR5 PCI EXPRESS - DirectX® 11
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
80GB Intel® X25-M 2.5" SSD (34nm / upto 250MB/sR | 70MB/sW)***SPECIAL***
2nd Hard Disk
1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (READS XD, MS, CF, SD, etc)
Power Supply & Case Cooling
600W Quiet 80 PLUS Quad Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£59)
Processor Cooling
INTEL SOCKET LGA1366 STANDARD CPU COOLER
Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities
WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps PCI CARD (£16)
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software
FREE Microsoft® Office Starter 2010 (Limited functionality Word & Excel)
Anti-Virus
BULLGUARD INTERNET SECURITY - FREE 90 DAY TRIAL
Warranty
3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, Lifetime Tech Support)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 8 to 10 working days
This spec how a powerful processor and graphics card, a super fast Intel SSD with a large 6GB's scratch disk, a future proof 12GB of RAM, and a 600W PSU to feed it all. I've chosen the Trigon case on this specification, you may wish to edit this to your personal taste.
You're correct to some extent about overclocking, and with a budget of £2,000 you can put together a great spec. I assume you want the base unit only (no monitor, keyboard & mouse, but if you do just let us know). Here's my ideal spec:
Case
STYLISH BLACK ALUMINIUM TRIGON CASE + 2 FRONT/SIDE USB (Special Offer)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Six Core Processor i7-970 (3.20GHz) 6.4GTs/12MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® P6X58D-E: DDR3, USB 3.0, SATA 6.0GB/s, 3-Way SLI
Memory (RAM)
12GB SAMSUNG DDR3 TRI-DDR3 1333MHz (6 x 2GB)
Graphics Card
1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX460 GDDR5 PCI EXPRESS - DirectX® 11
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
80GB Intel® X25-M 2.5" SSD (34nm / upto 250MB/sR | 70MB/sW)***SPECIAL***
2nd Hard Disk
1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (READS XD, MS, CF, SD, etc)
Power Supply & Case Cooling
600W Quiet 80 PLUS Quad Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£59)
Processor Cooling
INTEL SOCKET LGA1366 STANDARD CPU COOLER
Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities
WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps PCI CARD (£16)
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software
FREE Microsoft® Office Starter 2010 (Limited functionality Word & Excel)
Anti-Virus
BULLGUARD INTERNET SECURITY - FREE 90 DAY TRIAL
Warranty
3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, Lifetime Tech Support)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 8 to 10 working days
This spec how a powerful processor and graphics card, a super fast Intel SSD with a large 6GB's scratch disk, a future proof 12GB of RAM, and a 600W PSU to feed it all. I've chosen the Trigon case on this specification, you may wish to edit this to your personal taste.
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This is a Solid state drive (SSD) - it's faster than a normal hard drive, so we would install your operating system on here, giving you 1000GB as a spare disk to store all your data. Photoshop/video editing users often refer to this as a scratch disk.
With an SSD your operating system & programs will run and boot up faster than normal, so it's a recommended addition to a £2000 video editing PC
This is a Solid state drive (SSD) - it's faster than a normal hard drive, so we would install your operating system on here, giving you 1000GB as a spare disk to store all your data. Photoshop/video editing users often refer to this as a scratch disk.
With an SSD your operating system & programs will run and boot up faster than normal, so it's a recommended addition to a £2000 video editing PC
how much space does windows 7 need to reserve for installation and general usage.
I'd be thinking in this day and age where games can have an install size of several GB, say for example, an 80GB SSD would run out of space pretty quick.
would it be possible for the SSD to be purely for OS installation, drivers and other necessary items for the system to operate, and have the second larger drive as the default install location for games and programs?
I am new to SSD's and am pondering the thought of having a SSD/SATA setup, but wasn't sure how it would operate.
It will be good, but the SSD option will be better, and you won't have the risk of losing your data if one of two hdd's fails.
An 80GB SSD would be purely for the OS, drivers and your basic applications such as Office, Anti Virus, Photoshop, Adobe etc etc. Then when you install the games, you can choose install them onto the secondary larger HDD which would prevent the SSD getting full.
ok ta, so how much space does windows 7 alone require as a minimum?
also, if the time came to reinstall windows, would both drives need to be reformatted, or would the games be ok left on there?
Windows 7 usually takes up around 15GB - 17GB. So if a customer were to request a HDD to partitioned we would recommend a minimum of 25GB just to be safe - so with an 80GB SSD you will be fine.
In the event of a re installation of Windows, you wouldn't need to format the secondary HDD but some games will need to be reinstalled as they install files into the system registry of the OS (which will have been lost after the re installation). However, some games which run in clients such as World of Warcraft or any games in Steam will not be required to be installed again.
In the event of a re installation of Windows, you wouldn't need to format the secondary HDD but some games will need to be reinstalled as they install files into the system registry of the OS (which will have been lost after the re installation). However, some games which run in clients such as World of Warcraft or any games in Steam will not be required to be installed again.
Am thinking of the following rig will this be powerful enough for gaming and video editing ?
Case
ANTEC 900 BLACK GAMING CASE (£79)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-930 (2.80GHz) 4.8GTs/8MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® P6X58D-E: DDR3, USB 3.0, SATA 6.0GB/s, 3-Way SLI
Memory (RAM)
12GB KINGSTON HYPER-X TRI-DDR3 1600MHz, INTEL X.M.P (6 x 2GB KIT)
Graphics Card
1GB ATI RADEON™ HD 5870 PCI EXPRESS - DirectX® 11
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
80GB Intel® X25-M 2.5" SSD (34nm / upto 250MB/sR | 70MB/sW)***SPECIAL***
2nd Hard Disk
1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
10x BLU-RAY RE-WRITER DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW (£98)
Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (READS XD, MS, CF, SD, etc)
Power Supply & Case Cooling
CORSAIR 850W PSU (TX850) 80+ ULTRA QUIET (£100)
Processor Cooling
TITAN FENRIR EXTREME DIRECT TOUCH COPPER CPU COOLER (£39)
Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities
WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps PCI CARD (£16)
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Modem
56KBPS INTERNAL V92 DATA/FAX/VOICE MODEM (£9)
Firewire & Video Editing
1 x IEEE 1394a FIREWIRE PORT ONBOARD
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software
FREE Microsoft® Office Starter 2010 (Limited functionality Word & Excel)
Anti-Virus
BULLGUARD INTERNET SECURITY - FREE 90 DAY TRIAL
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, Lifetime Tech Support) (£5)
Data Recovery
NONE
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 8 to 10 working days
Case
ANTEC 900 BLACK GAMING CASE (£79)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-930 (2.80GHz) 4.8GTs/8MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® P6X58D-E: DDR3, USB 3.0, SATA 6.0GB/s, 3-Way SLI
Memory (RAM)
12GB KINGSTON HYPER-X TRI-DDR3 1600MHz, INTEL X.M.P (6 x 2GB KIT)
Graphics Card
1GB ATI RADEON™ HD 5870 PCI EXPRESS - DirectX® 11
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
80GB Intel® X25-M 2.5" SSD (34nm / upto 250MB/sR | 70MB/sW)***SPECIAL***
2nd Hard Disk
1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
10x BLU-RAY RE-WRITER DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW (£98)
Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (READS XD, MS, CF, SD, etc)
Power Supply & Case Cooling
CORSAIR 850W PSU (TX850) 80+ ULTRA QUIET (£100)
Processor Cooling
TITAN FENRIR EXTREME DIRECT TOUCH COPPER CPU COOLER (£39)
Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities
WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps PCI CARD (£16)
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Modem
56KBPS INTERNAL V92 DATA/FAX/VOICE MODEM (£9)
Firewire & Video Editing
1 x IEEE 1394a FIREWIRE PORT ONBOARD
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software
FREE Microsoft® Office Starter 2010 (Limited functionality Word & Excel)
Anti-Virus
BULLGUARD INTERNET SECURITY - FREE 90 DAY TRIAL
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, Lifetime Tech Support) (£5)
Data Recovery
NONE
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 8 to 10 working days
HMFC_Riley
Enthusiast
Nice spec. But if you got the same spec with the 930 overclocked then it would be substantially more capable for both Gaming and Video Editing.