ot - (slightly) pc upgrade?

ushere wrote on 10/19/2004, 4:58 PM

hi,

am just now getting round to upgrading (i asked the same question a few months ago, but opted for a new miller tripod instead!).

looking for good, reliable, but not necessarily cutting edge (finished with bleeding to death with new technology!).

suggestions please...

leslie

Comments

johnmeyer wrote on 10/19/2004, 6:49 PM

looking for good, reliable, but not necessarily cutting edge

Your title says "upgrade," but I gather you are NOT planning to upgrade an existing PC, but instead buy a new one. In that case, just search this forum. There are HUNDREDs of posts on this in the past six months. Short version: it doesn't really matter. Just get LOTS of hard disk space, and the fastest CPU your budget can afford. Vegas works with just about anything, and fine-tuning won't buy you all that much extra performance when rendering or previewing to an external monitor. These are the two areas where a faster computer helps. The actual editing can be done on anything. I still regularly capture and edit on a 450 MHz Pentium. Perfectly adequate. I just don't render on it.