Build for Editing and Effects (maybe some 3D) [On a budget]

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Hello people!

Till now I've been editing mainly on my 4 year old laptop (an Acer Aspire 5740, i7-620m, 6gb ram, Ati mobility 5650) using Adobe products (Premiere Pro, After Effects and Photoshop mainly). The thing is that I need an upgrade because there is work coming all the time on my way and I cant deal with long exports and slow rendering and previews.

I need a good build that can perform well under heavy duty, but that wont cost me zillions. My budget will be around 850 euros. I know its nto a great budget (rather small) but I need the base to work here and upgrade later. So I am looking for a cheap upgradable in the future solution.

Any ideas?


Cheers!

G.

 

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In short, u want an SSD system drive with Win 7 or 8.1 Pro 64bit, a large fast HD for yo media drive, a CUDA gfx card, at least 8Gb of Ram, and then the fastest processor that is within budget, which will probably meansomethin overclocked, but less aggressively than for gaming. U can save serious cash with a 2nd hand gfx card - look for a GTX 570 or 580 from eBay.

 

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Is overclocking easy and safe? Which CPUs are fairly new (and will last for a while) and can be overclocked? Arent the GTX cards meant for games?

 

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Is overclocking easy and safe? Which CPUs are fairly new (and will last for a while) and can be overclocked? Arent the GTX cards meant for games?

Over clocking is easy and safe provided u buy the right parts ie motherboard processor, RAM, and cooling - an easy place t start is go into a site like PCspecialist and look at what component options they give you for their overclocked systems, then research those components.

When u come to overclock the simple safe rules are never put too high a voltage through your CPU, or let it get too hot.

To make your build really easy, you can buy the parts ready assembled and clocked from Dabs, Scan etc, as upgrade kits, though from experience I would recommend tuning the overclock yourself.

Graphics cards - the GeForce cards are meant for gaming, but are far cheaper than Quadro cards for the power u get. In buying GeForce, you lose 10bit colour, and certified drivers for your various programs. Also Quadro cards, like Xeon processors, are meant for absolute toughest use cases, where they will be run at 100% for days at a time. You are unlikely to do that!! I recommend the 5-series GeForce cards because with the newer cards Nvidia hav started skewing the power (it's complicated) so the GeForce is cards are less able to eat into Quadro sales.