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robot · Joined: 07 Mar 2006

I'll be doing a ton of music recording and video editing, as well as general Internet use/downloading. No gaming. Will this setup be OK? I'm a massive user of computers but for some reason know nothing about what's inside one.

Here's what I have written up by the dude at Yongsan who's building it:

CPU - Intel Q8300 (2.5)
RAM - Samsung 2G 6200 (2 of these)
Motherboard - Asus P5Q SE2
VGA - Ati HD 4670
HDD - Samsung 1TB
ODD - LG H22NS 30
Case - Able A201
Power Supply - Aone 500W
Monitor - Esys Ex2201W

Some of this stuff I'm not even sure about what it is, but I do know that it's got a ton of space on the hard drive and it seems pretty fast.

So far the bill's 975,000 won. Does that seem about right? I'll also be getting a nice soundcard for recording, though I'm not sure what kind just yet (any recommendations?).

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

That looks like a pretty good deal. I haven't actually added up the cost of those components on Danawa though. But it looks good.

Quadcore cpu, 1TB HDD, 4GB Ram, decent graphics card.......and 22'' monitor.....good deal for 975,000.............one thing, ask him how much the ATI HD4770 is. It's just new and seems to be the best card at around $100.

Demophobe · Joined: 17 May 2004

Looks good.

Think about the CPU though; you will be doing a lot of encoding, etc...a bigger L2 cache will be very, very useful.

The Q8300 only has 4MB of the stuff...2x2MB. The Q9400 has double that (6MB), as does the Q9300 and the Q9550 has 12MB. This will make quite a difference with what you are doing. I realize you may not know what I am on about here, but I tell no lies; L2 cache is very important for multimedia, but not so much for gaming. The cache comes into play when doing CPU-intensive stuff. Some games need this (Crysis, for example), but games are more graphics-card driven. Encoding is all CPU and thus, the L2 cache is very important.

You should also consider a different HDD; Samsung aren't generally noted for speed. Maxtor may be a better choice, though I go for Western Digital. What you are concerned with are write times; the faster the write times, the better. I am not saying Samsung are bad, and it is an old bias based on past experience that has me slagging Samsung HDDs; they may have gotten their act together.

swigs · Joined: 20 Apr 2008

Also something to note is the quality of footage you will be editing in, and in what codec.

It's recommended if your doing a lot of video editing to have a separate hard drive as your 'scratch disk'. This can be internal or external, although you would have faster read/write times with a separate internal.

robot · Joined: 07 Mar 2006

Thx for the input so far. I'll look into the recommendations.

I have an 80 gig external I guess I could use for video editing. I'll only be doing minor things -- titling, music, and cuts -- to vids under 10 minutes long.

Other people have said that I should go for a name-brand power supply, that the one I have is too sketchy. Thoughts?

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

I'm using the HT Omega Striker 7.1 sound card. Last I looked it was around 70,000 in Korea. It's fine, and it gets really good ratings from users, including me, but it is entry-level, so you might want something better.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829271001

Power supplies are a crap-shoot. A cheap one will be more likely to fail, but then again it could last 10 years.......you pays your money you takes your chances. ....

.............people generally buy better ones, which would start at around 90,000, to protect the other expensive components in their PC. A failing PSU can fry your other things.