I know this is not a full on PC forum, but there a few people on here who know what they are talking about, and opinions I trust, so here goes...
Its been a looong time since I built a pc from scratch (IIRC it was an AMD 500Mhz processor, and jumpers on the M/B to set speeds/voltages!!), the last couple were bundles/barebones sytems,
Im needing to make a system for my hobby of live theatre, it will be used for audio and video playback, a bit of audio and video editing, but not much (thats what I built my home machine for)
I cant seem to find a barebones I like (or can afford) so Im looking to go the whole hog and build myself.
now, how do I make sure the M/B processor and RAM are all compatible with each other?
Ive seen a couple of M/Bs with pretty decent onboard graphics, (radeon 3000) with dual head out, so looking along these lines, I do need somthing that will come with playing back HD video without issue, but dont need a huge gaming card. I need it to be pretty quiet, so another reason for no seperate GPU.
Also, as its to be used in theatre, it will have a good soundcard fitted to it, so I dont care about 5.1 onboard when Im fitting a 24Ch card.
I need a reliable make (think I have gigabyte in my machine here, no problems in the last 18 months)
looking at 2Gb RAM, with capacity to expand if in the future.
I will also be fitting SSDs in raid 1.
DVD burner
HDD caddy to use for a normal HDD for backup/archiving
It will be running XP pro, stripped back to be boring, but relaible, with only software used on it, cubase, vegas, VLC, cue playback,
hoping to spend up to £150 on MB/processor/RAM
hope its not a big ask here!!!
Its been a looong time since I built a pc from scratch (IIRC it was an AMD 500Mhz processor, and jumpers on the M/B to set speeds/voltages!!), the last couple were bundles/barebones sytems,
Im needing to make a system for my hobby of live theatre, it will be used for audio and video playback, a bit of audio and video editing, but not much (thats what I built my home machine for)
I cant seem to find a barebones I like (or can afford) so Im looking to go the whole hog and build myself.
now, how do I make sure the M/B processor and RAM are all compatible with each other?
Ive seen a couple of M/Bs with pretty decent onboard graphics, (radeon 3000) with dual head out, so looking along these lines, I do need somthing that will come with playing back HD video without issue, but dont need a huge gaming card. I need it to be pretty quiet, so another reason for no seperate GPU.
Also, as its to be used in theatre, it will have a good soundcard fitted to it, so I dont care about 5.1 onboard when Im fitting a 24Ch card.
I need a reliable make (think I have gigabyte in my machine here, no problems in the last 18 months)
looking at 2Gb RAM, with capacity to expand if in the future.
I will also be fitting SSDs in raid 1.
DVD burner
HDD caddy to use for a normal HDD for backup/archiving
It will be running XP pro, stripped back to be boring, but relaible, with only software used on it, cubase, vegas, VLC, cue playback,
hoping to spend up to £150 on MB/processor/RAM
hope its not a big ask here!!!