Exactly as the title says. I'm determined to finally build a PC to at least get my own materials captured and do some editing. Ideally I'd like it to be able to double as a HTPC so I can watch projects without burning discs and for it to be able to run some games here and there.
Primarily I need to capture my LD collection. I've now got over 500 discs so that's a lot of audio detective work to do.
I've set aside $400 so far. Would that be adequate to build a decent editing machine for our usual line of work or is it going to take a lot more? I've never actually done any PC building before so I really have no idea what I'm doing.
Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader
Depends what you wanna do, but $400 is very little for a solid editing PC. May be good enough for SD content, but you probably won't have a lot of joy editing HD content I think.
I have computer that's about 4 or 5 years old and still holds up well, but it cost me about 2000 EUR back then. i7-3930k, 32GB RAM. Recently upgraded with a GTX 1070.
You will be able to find good video and bit-perfect audio capture cards used for reasonable prices, although you will find that some of the older devices will only have drivers for up to Windows7/8 so it's worth keeping in mind depending on what OS you go with.
Regardless of what system you choose, you will need storage! Lots and lots of sweet storage space. Enough is never enough, like gases projects expand to fill whatever space they occupy.
So, I was lucky to get mine for "only" 550€! About games: Freecell (more than 500 games, 100% win!) and Candy Crash Soda Saga - both included with Windows 10, and both addictive!!!
RAM memory doubled in price this year and decent graphic cards skyrocketed because of the bitcoin miners. It's a bad moment to build a PC.
(This post was last modified: 2018-01-16, 02:56 AM by Evit.)
When Bitcoin fails, I'll be laughing and saying the industry had it coming.
With my tax refund I have a bit more to work with but still even $700 seems pitiful in comparison to builds I've been seeing.
Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader