[pauluk83]

Hello all, I need some advice on building a new pc, i do alot of video editing, and mp3 mixing. and im on a 8mb adsl.

My old xp3200 and A7N8X system is becomging incresingly slow and unreliable ( i have to resotre the ghost image 2 - 3 times a month as this system grounds to a hult., it also overheats alot disbite me chaging the cpu heatsink and fan and the graphics card fan to more powerfull ones. also i currently have a 400w psu,and it runs hot all the time. my avg readings are :

cpu temp :53
MB temp: 32

+12 v :12.288
+5v: 4.477
+3.3v : 3.216
vcore :1.664

basically price isnt an issue, but it needs to be as quiet as possible, and im fed up with cream or beige colours for case, keyboad, drives ect

i need the pc to be vista compatible..

im thinking

512mb graphics
cdrw drive
dvd duel layer dvd
floppy dive with built in memory card reader ( for phone ad cam)
19 inch tft monitor ( or touchscrean??? )
7:1 soundsystem
water or dry ice cooling
600w + power supply
4 - 8 gb memory
wifi and bluetooth pci card
tv card ( prob freeview capible)
case ( obviosuly)
raptor 150gb hd ( for os and games)
500gb hd for storage
100mb lan card
motherbord and processor undecided ( though will prob go for the newest amd ( sorry i like amd), though i could be persuaded to go to intel...
a legit copy of xp

ethernet colour or mono lazer printer
scanner

[flupke]

Looks like money is really not an issue!
My suggestions:
graphics: ATI X1900XTX 512MB (unfortunally I don't have exprience with this but this is just one of the best cards)
scanner: Canon LiDE (these are really good, thin and no power supply needed!)
os: Windows XP Media Center Edition (to get the most out of your system)
cpu: AMD Opteron Dual Core (if you buy it soon; if you wait a little Intel might come with something)
monitor: make sure it's not a 1280*1024 but a high resolution widescreen
sound: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum (for most people the build-in will do)

For the rest I wouldn't know.

[ripken204]

operon 170
x1900xtx or 7900gtx
xfi
150gig raptors in raid0 or raid5
enermax liberty 600w

[nitroshift]

what about this:

mobo: gigabyte ga-g1975x
cpu: intel pentium 965 extreme edition
ram: 4x2048 ocz
graphics: 7900 gtx
hdd: as ripken204 suggested
sound: as flupken suggested

the rest is up to you...

This post has been edited by nitroshift: 02 May 2006 - 09:19 AM

[pauluk83]

ok but what about the case, i want a decent looking case wit plenty or room

[3aces]

well here are my suggestions, together were proberly gonna biuld the ultimate machine


Case

Zalamn Fan (CPU)

Case Fan ( I have one of these amazingly quite)

PSU

[IcemanND]

Quote

raptor 150gb hd ( for os and games)
500gb hd for storage

I'd lose the 500gb and get 4+ 150gb raptor drives and put them in a raid 5. Faster data access and better chance of data recovery if a drive fails.



Case:
well they are not gray, tan or black
http://www.clearcomputercase.com

Then you could use these raptors:
http://www.wdraptorx...ndex.asp?bhcp=1

[ripken204]

for the cpu fan get the big typhoon, ninja, or that zalman above.
that is a good case but you may also want to look at the cm stacker, both being very nice/large for watercooling.