PC Technical Specification Advice

Ed71

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Sep 15, 2013 13:21

After a long time away from Powerdirector editing; looking to get back into it again; looking to specify a suitable; fairly 'future proof' desktop PC to cope with the current version and hopefully some to come!

As I don't want to be buying another PC any time soon looking to spend max available budget - about £800, and been looking at the following specification, if anyone has any opinion would be appreciated (will Powerdirector benefit fully from this being the main question, especially the 8 core processor?) At some point will get into HD editing which is why I am looking at this level of spec.

AMD FX-8320 3.50 GHz Eight-Core AM3+ CPU 8MB L2 Cache & Turbo Core Technology

2TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64M Cache 7200RPM Hard Drive (Single Hard Drive)

8GB (2x4GB) DDR3/1600mhz Dual Channel Memory (Kingston HyperX Blu w/Heat Spreader)

Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 AMD 970 Chipset, ATX mainboard w/ 4 RAM slots, 7.1 Audio, GbLAN, USB3.0, SATA-III, RAID, 1 Gen PCIe x16, 1 Gen PCIe x4, 3 PCIe x1, & 2 PCI

Microsoft® Windows 8 (64-bit Edition) (64-bit Edition)

600 Watts Power Supplies (CoolerMaster B600 B-Series Gaming Power Supply)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 2GB 16X PCIe 3.0 Video Card
Director Suite 365
AMD FX-8320 3.50 GHz Eight-Core
Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250gb (OS)
Seagate 2TB SATA-III Hybrid 7200RPM Hard Drive (Data)
Toshiba 4TB SATA-III Hard drive (Archive)
24GB Memory
Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 2gb
Microsoft® Windows 10 (64-bit)

BarryTheCrab

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Sep 15, 2013 13:26

I suggest you send me the rig and I'll test it until Windows 14 arrives, then make a full report...

Maybe some more RAM would help. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
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Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Sep 15, 2013 14:15

I will second the more RAM suggestion.

That Motherboard will support up to 32 GB of RAM, I would put at least 16 GB on board to start.

600 Watt power supply may be enough, I like to have 700 watts for plenty of reserve power.
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Ed71

Senior Member Location: Dorset, United Kingdom Joined: May 17, 2008 14:32 Messages: 207 Offline

Sep 15, 2013 14:49

Additional RAM is good point though I think I would leave that as a future upgrade as additional cost (approx £65-£70) puts me outside my immediate budget, which I am trying to stick to and already pushing to it's limit! (Especially as PC builder quoted cost is about the same as buying it separately elsewhere, so no particular saving in cost; just the future job of fitting it!)

Thanks for your input, Director Suite 365
AMD FX-8320 3.50 GHz Eight-Core
Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250gb (OS)
Seagate 2TB SATA-III Hybrid 7200RPM Hard Drive (Data)
Toshiba 4TB SATA-III Hard drive (Archive)
24GB Memory
Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 2gb
Microsoft® Windows 10 (64-bit)

optodata

Senior Contributor Location: California, USA Joined: Sep 16, 2011 16:04 Messages: 8630 Offline

Sep 16, 2013 00:55

You may want to look into an SSD drive for Windows and other programs, maybe reducing the size of your HDD somewhat to free up some funds. Even though your HDD drive is SATA III/6Gbps, the data transfer speed won't come close to that rate, while a solid-state (flash) drive will.

I can fit Win7 x64 plus Office and all my other programs onto a 64GB SSD, but I've had to use some NTFS links to offload some big items (ahem, such as all the Cyberlink PD Creative templates) to my HDD. With a 128GB C: drive, you'd have room to spare. My computer fully boots from a cold start in about 14 seconds and PD12 loads in just 2 seconds - a couple reasons why you may want to consider SSDs ...

Ed71

Senior Member Location: Dorset, United Kingdom Joined: May 17, 2008 14:32 Messages: 207 Offline

Sep 16, 2013 14:07

Thanks for your input,

SSD - interesting thought but the two separate drives would be a budget buster; however they do offer

2TB Seagate Hybrid Gen3 SATA-III 60Gb/s Cache 5400RPM SSHD (Single Hard Drive)

Anyone had any experience of Hybrids with PD12? It should speed the load up time? Director Suite 365
AMD FX-8320 3.50 GHz Eight-Core
Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250gb (OS)
Seagate 2TB SATA-III Hybrid 7200RPM Hard Drive (Data)
Toshiba 4TB SATA-III Hard drive (Archive)
24GB Memory
Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 2gb
Microsoft® Windows 10 (64-bit)