craiginuk
Active Member
Hi all,
I hope you can help me please. I am looking at replacing my home desktop. This is the main family PC and I use it for editing family video footage with Sony vegas studio (now HD which existing PC won't manage), storing and viewing photos with Picasa. Also general use of word and Excel.
We have a budget of £500 for tower only and can get Win7 OS from software for students about £40 leaving about £460 for the actual hardware.
So far I've looked at these:
http://www.novatech.co.uk/pc/range/iflamepro.html - looks good but am just worried the onboard graphics may battle with editing HD video
or this:
http://www.novatech.co.uk/pc/range/deltav2.html - this one also looks good but I have read the AMD bulldozer processor is a bit of a let down. Not sure if that is just geeky review type techies giving it a hard time or if it is actually lacking?
Not too fussed about only 500GB HDD as I will move my existing 1TB (d: drive) from my existing machine and carry on using that for data storage. Only the OS and software installations will go on the new HDD (c: drive)
Not really a gamer but just want it to be able to handle HD video editing and streaming later. Might also move up to photoshop at some point.
Will either of these be ok? Can anyone suggest something better at the £460 hardware mark please?
Thanks and regards
Craig
I hope you can help me please. I am looking at replacing my home desktop. This is the main family PC and I use it for editing family video footage with Sony vegas studio (now HD which existing PC won't manage), storing and viewing photos with Picasa. Also general use of word and Excel.
We have a budget of £500 for tower only and can get Win7 OS from software for students about £40 leaving about £460 for the actual hardware.
So far I've looked at these:
http://www.novatech.co.uk/pc/range/iflamepro.html - looks good but am just worried the onboard graphics may battle with editing HD video
or this:
http://www.novatech.co.uk/pc/range/deltav2.html - this one also looks good but I have read the AMD bulldozer processor is a bit of a let down. Not sure if that is just geeky review type techies giving it a hard time or if it is actually lacking?
Not too fussed about only 500GB HDD as I will move my existing 1TB (d: drive) from my existing machine and carry on using that for data storage. Only the OS and software installations will go on the new HDD (c: drive)
Not really a gamer but just want it to be able to handle HD video editing and streaming later. Might also move up to photoshop at some point.
Will either of these be ok? Can anyone suggest something better at the £460 hardware mark please?
Thanks and regards
Craig