name='jaysbarbq' said:But surely for multi tasking the more cache on the CPU the better - hence the Q9450?
As for the Samsung hard drives, I agree that on paper they are fantastic and have won many awards. However, my current machine had 2 new 250GB drives that lasted circa 12 months in total. When I swapped the 2nd one I asked for another brand as I have no trust in Samsung drives over the long term. Or was I just extremly unlucky??!!
As for the DVD Re Writers, I will defo use the LG GSA-H55N, as they have won many awards, even against thge Samsung. Or to be safe, maybe 1 samsung and 1 LG.
I will certainly take a deeper look at the links you sent and really appreciate the time and effort.
So you reckon Vista over XP 64 bit? Software I'm not fussed on cost as my employer is a MS Gold Partner. So if Vista Ultimate is the best on 4GB Ram, then that will be the OS to have. That said, I have Vista Home Premium on my Samsung Q70 (T7300, 2GB Ram) and find it slow - even after a reinstall.
I think my main question here is about the GPU, CPU and board. My MSI board has been so much nicer to use than the two Asus boards I had. Nvidia cards are nice, but I think they lack a little depth of colour - something which is resolvable if they are the best cards to use.
So more views and critique welcome!
BTW - do not include the external drive or OS in your specs. £800 - £1000 (inc vat) is just for the system in a case I already have. SO blow the lot for me please and build a beast which will render my Pinnacle movies faster than Bill Gates can make another $100!
PS - we are still in 'agreance' that Intel rather than Nvidia Nforce? because that means changing my mind set form what I currently have. I was going to stick with AMD and get the Phenom until I saw the better ratings for the Intel Quad! So need the best board available for it. Looks like that would be the Asus Striker 2 Extreme - but is that crazy money really worth it?
name='jaysbarbq' said:BTW - do not include the external drive or OS in your specs. £800 - £1000 (inc vat) is just for the system in a case I already have. SO blow the lot for me please and build a beast which will render my Pinnacle movies faster than Bill Gates can make another $100!
1st of all haha!
2nd The Q9450 was designed for people like u
if you read my last post stating the following quote
SSE4 is for media applications and helps encoding/decoding such as taking a MP4 and converting it to a DivX. It will allso help with HD content and movie play back
3rd SSE4 therfore, speeds up the time it takes to render your movies,
ok been trying to find that site i was looking at the other day! its anoying me now but i came accross this, which will definantly suit your needs
I've read that if the application supports SS4, a 30% improvement can be seen. if video encoding/decoding and rendoring was the priority of the build --- it should be mentioned
im guessing that says it all a 30% increase in performance is huge!
i guess their isnt much to say on the cpu side of things lol ill just leave it to you ive fought the side of the Q9450 and lamboman and done the old Q6600 well let us know which one your thinking about![]()