Specs check

[alaninman]

Hi

Gorman very kindly helped me produce the following specs for a home computer capable of home video editing and digidtal photography. Would appreciate any thoughts.

Case
COOLERMASTER SILEO 500 QUIET MID TOWER CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5-760 Quad Core (2.80GHz, 8MB Cache) + Turbo Boost
Motherboard
ASUS® P7P55 LX: USB 2.0 & SATA 3.0Gb/s, CrossFireX™ SUPPORT
Memory (RAM)
8GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 4GB)
Graphics Card
1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTS450 GDDR5 PCI EXPRESS - DirectX® 11
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
500GB SERIAL ATA 3-Gb/s HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (7,200rpm)
2nd Hard Disk
1TB WD CAVIAR GREEN WD10EARS, SATA 3 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply & Case Cooling
450W Quiet 80 PLUS Dual Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£29)
Processor Cooling
INTEL SOCKET LGA1156 STANDARD CPU COOLER
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities
ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Firewire & Video Editing
3 Port IEEE 1394a Firewire PCI Card (£9)
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Monitor
24" Wide TFT Silver/Black 1920 x1080 2MS D-Sub, DVI, 23.6" Panel (£149)
Keyboard & Mouse
Logitech® Wireless Desktop® MK250 Keyboard and Mouse Combo (£19)
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 9 to 12 working days
Miscellaneous
FREE H.A.W.X.2 Game (RRP: £39.99) with a qualifying GTS450/ GTX460 GPU!
Quantity
1

Price: £978.00 including VAT and delivery.

 

[Gorman]

That would be me! We were aiming for a 600-1000 budget with monitor and keyboard. This is an example at the top end of the budget.

 

[Sleinous]

Looking good, missing a 64mb cached drive though

 

[alaninman]

Hi Sleinous. Thanks for your input I assume that you mean HD1. Would you suggest the same as Hd2? Though 8gb ram sounds great (8x my present system) am I being seduced by the numbers? James thanks once again for your help as you can see I added firewire as there was no mention of it in the original specs.

 

[Sleinous]

Yes same as HD2, or you can go for the WD1002FAEX, same thing, just a black drive, supposedly slightly faster. I say 'supposedly'

 

[neewhom]

8gb ram isn't too much when it cones to media editing/creation, makes things much smoother with latency of running multiple programs, especially ones heavy on the CPU a ram such as video/photo editing ones

 

[alaninman]

Hi guys. Had to go out so have just got in. Many thanks for your contribution(s) it is very much appreciated.

Alan