What is the cheapest PC you can game and edit well with?

Dumb down the ram to 8gb

For editing work hard drive speed is important and you've picked a green drive. Pick at least a caviar blue, preferable black, or a fast drive from another company like samsung (spinpoint F3 is good).

For editing work hard drive speed is important and you've picked a green drive. Pick at least a caviar blue, preferable black, or a fast drive from another company like samsung (spinpoint F3 is good).

kraken2109

For editing, you need a good program. Avid's Media Composer and Adobe's Premier Pro allow you to allocate RAM to the application. The more RAM you have the better. If you are serious about editing then get 16Gb. For the storage, you need to have a fast scratch disc and a disc for all your encoded footage. For the scratch disc either go for two 256Gb SSD's in RAID 0 or if thats too expensive then go for two 7200RPM drives in RAID 0. clyde46

Dude honestly get off Amazon and use a proper online store like dabs, scan, overclockers etc - yes you may find the occasional thing cheaper on Amazon but not often.

A 120gb SDD is 80 quid on most those sites so 60 quid for 60gb is bad

Theres a 7770 for the same price as your 7750http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1gb-xfx-radeon-hd-7770-dd-core-edition-4500mhz-gddr5-28nm-gpu-1000mhz-640-cores-dp-dl-dvi-i-hdmi

Theres 8gb of the same ram for you at 30 quid - half the price of the 16gb...............surprisingly ;) http://www.scan.co.uk/products/8gb-(2x4gb)-corsair-ddr3-vengeance-jet-black-lp-pc3-12800-(1600)-non-ecc-cas-9-9-9-24-xmp-15v

Also if possible dont bother with a wifi adapter and plug your PC straight into the modem, now this may not be possible but really if your PC is only a few metres away from the modem buy a cable.

Dude honestly get off Amazon and use a proper online store like dabs, scan, overclockers etc - yes you may find the occasional thing cheaper on Amazon but not often.

A 120gb SDD is 80 quid on most those sites so 60 quid for 60gb is bad

Theres a 7770 for the same price as your 7750http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1gb-xfx-radeon-hd-7770-dd-core-edition-4500mhz-gddr5-28nm-gpu-1000mhz-640-cores-dp-dl-dvi-i-hdmi

Theres 8gb of the same ram for you at 30 quid - half the price of the 16gb...............surprisingly ;) http://www.scan.co.uk/products/8gb-(2x4gb)-corsair-ddr3-vengeance-jet-black-lp-pc3-12800-(1600)-non-ecc-cas-9-9-9-24-xmp-15v

5SI-GonePostal

If you get us a set or semi-flexible budget we can probably be a bit more helpful "cheapest" isn't very descriptive when we don't know how well or poorly you're wanting things to run.General_X

Do you need an OS with that as well? And what type of editing programs are you using?

Do you need an OS with that as well? And what type of editing programs are you using?

5SI-GonePostal

Dude honestly get off Amazon and use a proper online store like dabs, scan, overclockers etc - yes you may find the occasional thing cheaper on Amazon but not often.

A 120gb SDD is 80 quid on most those sites so 60 quid for 60gb is bad

Theres a 7770 for the same price as your 7750http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1gb-xfx-radeon-hd-7770-dd-core-edition-4500mhz-gddr5-28nm-gpu-1000mhz-640-cores-dp-dl-dvi-i-hdmi

Theres 8gb of the same ram for you at 30 quid - half the price of the 16gb...............surprisingly ;) http://www.scan.co.uk/products/8gb-(2x4gb)-corsair-ddr3-vengeance-jet-black-lp-pc3-12800-(1600)-non-ecc-cas-9-9-9-24-xmp-15v

Also if possible dont bother with a wifi adapter and plug your PC straight into the modem, now this may not be possible but really if your PC is only a few metres away from the modem buy a cable.

5SI-GonePostal

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Do you need an OS with that as well? And what type of editing programs are you using?

pickettsticket

Now my next question, will this be more a gaming machine, editing machine, or equal parts both? A primarily editing machine would probably mean that more should be spent on the processor while less allocated for the GPU, the opposite will be true for a machine primarily for gaming. If it's about half and half a balance will have to be stuck.General_X

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Do you need an OS with that as well? And what type of editing programs are you using?

clyde46

Is the radeon Hd 6850 better than the hd 7770?pickettsticket

[QUOTE="clyde46"][QUOTE="pickettsticket"] No, i have accounted for the os, keyboard and mouse outside that cost. it will need to run sony vegas pro, cs6 and after affectspickettsticket

I use after effects and premiere
i have no problems with either

I have never used vegas

if you want is special effects, vegas isn't really the program for that.

After effects is

Premiere is for putting all your footage together, etc.

But I am sure you already know this, just saying it again for any1 else.

I've never had problems running After Effects and Premiere Pro with just a standard HDD, but ofcourse I only edited together smallish clips so your mileage may vary. From my experience though the programs load up your working footage in RAM while the HDD is only used if there isn't enough RAM to fit the playback of the video you're working on. What type of content are you burning? Yes a Blu-Ray burner would be needed to burn Blu-Rays obviously, but it would be good to make sure you NEED to burn Blu-Rays before springing for a burner, who are you delivering this content too? Would it be easier to network transfer? These are all things that you can answer better than we can.General_X

[QUOTE="General_X"]I've never had problems running After Effects and Premiere Pro with just a standard HDD, but ofcourse I only edited together smallish clips so your mileage may vary. From my experience though the programs load up your working footage in RAM while the HDD is only used if there isn't enough RAM to fit the playback of the video you're working on. What type of content are you burning? Yes a Blu-Ray burner would be needed to burn Blu-Rays obviously, but it would be good to make sure you NEED to burn Blu-Rays before springing for a burner, who are you delivering this content too? Would it be easier to network transfer? These are all things that you can answer better than we can.pickettsticket

Yes they will all run fine. After effects ia a ram hog.

3d stuff runs on anything, I use blender for very casual stuff.

Only model I've ever worked on

it takes like 3 seocnds to render and it has a lot of polygons, and subsurface scattering, and SSAO.

and my avatar

viewing 3d is fast on anything, render times vary greatly based on your cpu though.

I must stress though, after effects eats ram.

It's fine for games as well, you'll be fine.

You don't really need cuda unless you are doing some high polygon renders lol

and the performance benefit would probably only be on a high end nvidia card like a 580 or 680

You don't really need cuda unless you are doing some high polygon renders lol

and the performance benefit would probably only be on a high end nvidia card like a 580 or 680

JigglyWiggly_

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You don't really need cuda unless you are doing some high polygon renders lol

and the performance benefit would probably only be on a high end nvidia card like a 580 or 680

pickettsticket

The 680's performance is all over in cuda, but if you want a cuda gpu.

Get a 580 or 680.

Otherwise I doubt you'll be much faster than cpu.

But honestly, you should already know how to 3d model before you start investing in things you might not even need if you find you don't like 3d modelling that much, etc.

Cuda is always nice in backtrack 5 though, wpa2

you are no match for john the ripper and cuda

Unless the 7770 is a capable cardpickettsticket

[QUOTE="pickettsticket"]Unless the 7770 is a capable cardGeneral_X

I wonder if the image quality of videos using GPU processing (Nvidia CUDA and ATI Stream) have improved. The last time I looked was back in 2010. GPU processing of video renders was actually quicker than the CPU. But, the image quality wasn't as good as using the CPU.