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My PC is now too old, so I pan to upgrade it in order to make a decent AVCHD editing PC. I plan to buy PowerDirector 11 (used Premier before). This is what I will reuse from my pressent PC:
- 3 Sata 2 disks (320mb)
- PSU (450w)
- cabinet
I plan to buy Intel i7 3770-K processor, and a new SSD for OS and programs and 16gb of Ram. I am NOT a gamer, the pc will mostly be used for ordinery internet surfing and office programs, but also for editing AVCHD video. I do not need a high end machine, but a decent one that will make AVCHD editing go smooth. If thevrendering at the end takes a ehile, that is not a problem.
Main questions:
- what MBO do I need? I do not need a lot of connection (4 Sata ports, and maybe put some of my Sata2 in Raid 0, if that will be useful??)
- do I need an extra graphics card at all? I see that the specs for Power D.11 suggests some graph. boards. What are tha advantages, will the editing process and rendering be much faster with a decent graph board? And will it be much difference if buy a eg 300 dollar board or a 100 dollar board?
Thanx
The 450 Watt power supply is barely good enough. With today's computers and graphic cards you need a bit more power supply.
With the Intel HD graphics 4000, it is recommended to have a Graphics card for rendering AVCHD videos. The Built-in Intel graphics only allocates about 64 megabytes for the graphics memory, Powerdirector minimum requirements is more that that.
http://www.cyberlink.com/products/powerdirector-ultra/specs_en_US.html
I hope your spec on your SATA hard drive is 320 (GB) Gigabytes and not 320 (MB) Megabytes. You should consider a larger hard drive for video editing. 1 Terabyte is a good size.
On the SSD drive, be careful on your selection, some work well and some do not work well with Powerdirector. Powerdirector needs about 100 GB of free space on the OS Drive. (C). Many SSD drives are too small.
For the Motherboard, you should go for a good one, you do need a motherboard that is good for gaming, because the system requirements for HD video editing is greater than for a Gaming computer.
Cabinet is probably OK, if it has enough cooling and space for Motherboard and Hard drives. A new motherboard should have four to six SATA controllers and lots of USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports. The motherboard should have support for the CPU you want. Plenty of expansion slots for expansion boards
A internet connection (Network card) is required for Powerdirector activation.
RAM should be 6 GB and up on a 64 Bit OS.
Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.