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Nick
Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 16 Jun 2004
Posts: 11802
Location: Sydney, NSW
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Tricky! If you have an existing chassis to re-use, I would get these parts for around $1,020:
ASUS Z97-C/4 main board
http://tinyurl.com/o9r8ywc
Nothing fancy, uses the Z97 chipset that has plenty of useful features and performance.
ASUS GTX750TI-PH-2GD5. 2048MB GDDR5 video card.
http://tinyurl.com/nlfpbzw
Not bleeding edge, but fits the budget well.
Intel Core I5-4690K, 3.50GHZ, Quad-core, 6mb cache
http://tinyurl.com/ps6tgho
The unlocked CPU should overclock like crazy.
8GB Corsair (2x4GB) DDR3 2133MHz Vengeance PRO DIMM
http://tinyurl.com/p3pdbt7
8Gb should be fine for most video editing, this stuff has reasonable speed without breaking the budget. If I was going to go over budget, I'd double the RAM.
If you can shoehorn that into a case with a reasonable PSU and room for a couple of disks, it should be a solid performer. There are thousands of other options to combine so you can mix & match to shave to budget or increase performance. _________________ Australian 2015 Featherweight champion
UK 2016 Gladiator champion
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Spockie-Tech
Site Admin
Joined: 31 May 2004
Posts: 3160
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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I just got myself a refurb W520 Thinkpad after shopping around for a bit. From BudgetPC, but you can find them on Ebay quite easily too..
~$700-$800, 2nd Gen I7, 16gRam, 15" 1920x1080 screen, Desktop-power Quadro2000 Graphics card, mSata + Sata2 slots for dual SSD's. It screams along.
Only drawback is you need the high power 170watt power brick, the standard 90w thinkpad ones wont run it, So I need to get a new spare supply for at home and take with me use.
As usual, I dont think you can beat 2nd hand Thinkpads for bang-vs-buck and quality, although it is a laptop, you would have to add a big screen for serious cad/desktop work.
Its got so much power, i run VirtualBox in pass through-mode with direct-hard-drive-writes to the actual windows partition, with the native Windows 7 install running as a VM under Mageia Linux, and if I full screen the VM, you cant even tell that Windows isnt running native speed wise for general purpose work. Linux and Windows running simultaneously and it cruises on about 25% cpu load.
Well worth a look if you hand handle "Refurb" (not "new") and want portable power on a budget. _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
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