it's my first post here in this forum and really really need your help

HI
its my first time to write here
i am filmmaker
and always need to edit videos
so i ll buy new pc and will do all my best to make it able to run (final cut and and motion and color )
but really i don't know if i can make that in low budget so i need your help to suggest me suitable pc's components
but u must know i live in Egypt
and here sometimes cant find hardware in easy way

if i suggest this pc
wt's ur opinion


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giga byte GA-EP45-DS3L (rev. 1.0)

Intel Core2Duo E7200 2.5GHz


or Core 2 Duo 2.4 / 2 M PC 800 (E4600)




vga 512 MB 8800 GTS G92


or GIGABYTE 8600GT 512MB


or GIGABYTE ATI HD 2600Pro 512MB


or PowerColor ATI HD 2600Pro 512MB




ram Kingston 2GB bus 800MHz





HD Western Digital 500GB 16M Cache SATAII





POWER SUPPLY ???




plz do rebly

If you are in film 4GB of RAM is minimum spec for a new computer. 8GB is recommended and if you could go higher I would, but for most boards it is not economically feasible.
I cannot find anything about on board RAID on this board, please someone correct me. However, if you do not plan on setting up any raid (which you may want to do if you are editing video) this board may not be the best choice, if RAID is supported I will shut up and drop this.
8800GT should do just fine and it is really easy to install, and get working.
As for the processor get a quad core if you can afford it otherwise I have seen the E7300s for not much more than 7200 around $25 or so see if you can swing your budget in such away.

Get the most powerful cpu you can, editing anything takes a lot, that goes for ram too. RAID might be better as an external hd. Power supply - google computer power supply calculator and you should be able to get a good calculator. Then add at least 20% and you should be fine.

if you can run osx successfully on this system then fcp and it's other production apps should run fine and stable.
you don't need raid unless you're working on 2k dpx files (i'm assuming you are working on either standard def dv or hdv or hd via a panasonic p2 or equivalent).

just message me if you run into trouble. am editing offline hd on an E4600 with 2gigs of ram and no raid.

wasalam.

really so thanx
u helped me really
and by ur advices i ll do
but plz suggest on me

good pc to do can edit by final cut on this pc

this components is good 4 final cut editing as professional in pc ?



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Giga Byte Intel EP45-DS3L Bus 1600

PR
Core 2 Duo E7200 2.53 / 3 M PC 1066

VGA
Giga Byte GeForce 8600 GT 512 MB

HD
Western Digital 500GB 16M Cache SATAII

RAM
Kingston 4GB bus 800MHz

This is a nice hardware choices to run Leopard :

• No problems with Gigabyte EP45 (you'll find a lot of posts that have installation guides etc).
• Core processor is very good with mac no problems also.
• I think that your GeForce 8600 will work.
• The other components have no problems.

you can install from Leopard retail (original DVD) without any problems.

how i know if this MOTHERBOURD i will can put in it raid card
and how to know the maximum supporting reading of hard disk
like if it can real the maximum 1 tera byte
or only 500 GB



many ppl advice me dt use the vega
and tell me the editing depend on processor not vega card ?
r their advices is right ?

Yes, I was talking about compatibly with OS X and this hardware is great.

I must warn you about 4GB+ ram usage all weird kind of errors can come from running with 4+ GB's
if you go for more ram You must remember 1 thing you have to enable the memory remap in the bios setup!
this sets the ram to 64 bits.

Second you heard it befor go for a Q6600 there real cheap quadcore processors and if you ad a good cooler you can easyly over clock to 3GHZ with no trouble

3th it does not matter what speed ram you get DDr2 800 is cheap and fast. faster ram only gets you max 5% speed increase. , more ram is always better.

good luck with your project

OSX Sofware RAID0 works and should do the trick (if he plans to use it on OS X exclusively)
I tested it on my board (which is almost the same) and it was fine.

my friend advice me to buy this component
because he use them by operating system ( Kalyway_10.5.2_DVD_Intel_Amd.iso )
and when setup final cut find it some stable
so plz u advice me to buy this component
or develop it
the components is


PR
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Processor 1 (ID = 0)
Number of cores 2 (max 2)
Number of threads 2 (max 2)
Name Intel Pentium D 925
Codename Presler
Specification Intel® Pentium® D CPU 3.00GHz
Package Socket 775 LGA (platform ID = 2h)


MB
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Northbridge Intel P35/G33/G31 rev. 10
Southbridge Intel 82801GB (ICH7/R) rev. A1
Graphic Interface PCI-Express
PCI-E Link Width x16
PCI-E Max Link Width x16



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Memory Type DDR2
Kingstone ram 3072 MBytes



vega card
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GeForce 8400 GS hardware monitor

These specs are old. A p4? Your earlier specs were better with the intel quad & the gigabyte board. I don't know about the video card...