Is my CPU Specs for Video editing fine?

Question

actualy im still planning to buy all these by this week. here is my list

K8N SCI-F MSI motherboard
Athlon 2.2Ghz (3500) processor
DDR2 1GB Kingston memory card
2 Seagate 80Gb hard drive
Asus 256mb PCI Express video card
2 multi DVD rw/ litescribe
Fire wire
LCD monitor..

what do you think of that? i need you suggestions ASAP. thanks! ;)

Answer 1

Both your processor and your memory will hinder your ability to edit videos. That setup will work, but you will notice the sluggishness. Windows XP needs 256MB of ram just to breathe on a system, and once you start adding more applications it's hunger increases. The more memory you can afford the better, especially if you plan on upgrading to Vista in the future. 2GB would be a better starting point. Another point about your memory choice, Kingston is good memory if your are building a box to edit documents, Corsair, OCZ or Mushkin would be better choices (make sure you buy high speed ram, from whoever you go with). Now, about your video card, the three main manufacturers of video editing cards are Pinnacle, Matrox and Canopus. I assume your hard drives are going to be SATA (they should be) and in RAID (need to be), you may want to go with larger size drives, as a two hour DVD to fit on a standard DVD of 4.7 GB will need about 60 GB of hard disk space. You should upgrade your processor to a dual core as well, better and faster processing power, do not want any dropped frames now do we? In summary this is what your minimum system should be equipped with:

Build a dual-core machine w/ 2 full GBs of Dual Channel RAM (2 x 1GB) , a 100GB SATA drive and a 256 meg ATI or nVidia based graphics card that supports dual monitors. Add in a second 250+ GB SATA drive for your storage - even better, set up a RAID 0 striped set (2x250GB).

Answer 2

It would matter what program are you going to use for the video editing. A dual cpu would be better, more memory (at least 2gb) and what video card 256mb pci-e means nothing. If it's a 7300 LE piece of crap, that's what the performace will be...crap. The LCD monitor will matter as will, a slow refresh will cause blurs, ghosting, ect. A fast refresh would have no blurs. You might want to wait and to research first on the program, what it needs to run, and a good video card to use for editing (like ATI All-In-Wonder cards).
And the motherboard, according to what gpu you use, ati or geforce, would change what board you get. ATI would be a crossfire board.

Answer 3

What kind of video editing? The higher the quality, the more you'll need. And faster computers mean less time sitting around waiting for it to render.

That's probably good enough for non-professional work (e.g. MiniDV.)

Answer 4

It's a fairly good processor, but you might want to go duel core if you do lots of multitasking, use duel threaded apps, and want it to last a while. Good luck!

Answer 5

Well all is good but the processor and the hard drive...

(Lightscribe is HP - YAY!)

Answer 6

of course this is fine update processor if u can