help in specing a new PC

markreed wrote on 8/13/2010, 6:38 AM
Hello all -

New to the forums, and a little new to Sony MS. Used it long ago before it gained all the power it has now!

I am buying a new PC - pretty much for video edits and photography work.

What is a good spec to go with? Im looking for very fast render times, and solid video ability.

Any specs or machine suggestions would be appreciated.

I am not loyal to any brand - so whatever works best for this is my prefered puchase.

From reading over a few threads, I see multiple drives are good - and they should be stand alone - not part of a raid array?

Any certain video cards to consider?

I do not mind building this by the piece if it means a better functioning machine.

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markreed wrote on 8/13/2010, 7:32 AM
some of the Dell's I am looking at have one of these video cards:



256MB NVIDIA® Quadro® NVS 295, 2MON, 2 DP w/ 2 DP to DVI

512MB NVIDIA® Quadro® FX 580, DUAL MON, 2 DP & 1 DVI

256MB ATI FireMV® 2260, 2MON, 2 DP w/ 1 DP to DVI Adapter

all are about the same price

anyone know if these are decent for video work?

Mike M. wrote on 8/13/2010, 9:40 PM
You can click on any user's profile and see what they have. That will give you a good idea. Take a look at mine and you see an older system that worked,but not too fast and had problems with HD. The newer system I have works great and I built it.

If you want to have an Intel based computer then get a Intel i5 or i7 CPU and at least 4 Gig of memory for Windows XP or Windows 7 x32. For Windows 7 x64 get a minimum of 8 Gig of memory. Use a SSD for the OS hard drive and a regular hard drive for the other drive (or two). If the video card and its drivers support CUDA and is nVidia based then that will work with VMS 10.........but otherwise, unless you're gaming, don't worry about the video card. Those are the basics.

CPU: Intel
MB: Asus socket 1156 or 1366 series
RAM: Corsair xmp series
HD: Western Digital Black Caviar series
SSD: Intel x25m series
Optical: Asus, Sony
Video: nVidia or ATI based (my preference is ATI for support and drivers)