Desirable upgrades for my P.C.
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 11:20 am
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Due to major upstairs alterations I am having to downsize my hobby workspace. I will be scrapping my hefty 21inch Iiyama CRT monitor, positively ancient now purchased in 1997 along with Photoshop 4., and replacing it with a flat screen alternative that doesn't take two people to lift it. I thought that this would probably be a good time to improve the spec. of my PC to better cope with the demands which are likely to be placed on it with my growing interest in trying to make films again.
The guy that built my PC is very capable, but a games fanatic and not into video at all and so does't know what is ideally required. (Makes two of us!). As he builds computers as a hobby and charges little more than the cost of the components it's a pretty cost effective arrangement. So any suggestions as to what would be a desirable upgrade and extra features to make it just a little "future proof" - if there is such a thing -would be very much appreciated. Video editing and maybe High Def suitability and so on. The current spec. is as follows:
Pentium 4 dual core processor (30Ghz).
Ram 1 Gb (PC 3200).
Radeon 9800 Pro Graphics card.
320 Gb Hard Drive.
Mods. advised by a friend have been. 1. A second internal hard drive running at 7200 rpm. 2. An essential Firewire socket. 3. An increase in Ram to as much as is possible - or affordable ! 3. The replacement monitor to have a refresh rate as fast as possible - ideally a rate of 2 millisecs but not more than 5..
Hope you knowledgeable forum viewers out there can help. I'm sure that any suggestions will be useful for other less experienced folk wanting to upgrade their computer .
Pete
Due to major upstairs alterations I am having to downsize my hobby workspace. I will be scrapping my hefty 21inch Iiyama CRT monitor, positively ancient now purchased in 1997 along with Photoshop 4., and replacing it with a flat screen alternative that doesn't take two people to lift it. I thought that this would probably be a good time to improve the spec. of my PC to better cope with the demands which are likely to be placed on it with my growing interest in trying to make films again.
The guy that built my PC is very capable, but a games fanatic and not into video at all and so does't know what is ideally required. (Makes two of us!). As he builds computers as a hobby and charges little more than the cost of the components it's a pretty cost effective arrangement. So any suggestions as to what would be a desirable upgrade and extra features to make it just a little "future proof" - if there is such a thing -would be very much appreciated. Video editing and maybe High Def suitability and so on. The current spec. is as follows:
Pentium 4 dual core processor (30Ghz).
Ram 1 Gb (PC 3200).
Radeon 9800 Pro Graphics card.
320 Gb Hard Drive.
Mods. advised by a friend have been. 1. A second internal hard drive running at 7200 rpm. 2. An essential Firewire socket. 3. An increase in Ram to as much as is possible - or affordable ! 3. The replacement monitor to have a refresh rate as fast as possible - ideally a rate of 2 millisecs but not more than 5..
Hope you knowledgeable forum viewers out there can help. I'm sure that any suggestions will be useful for other less experienced folk wanting to upgrade their computer .
Pete