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I second the increase in RAM, the removal of an SSD, and bumping down the video card. My personal preference on entry level boards is Gigabyte, given that ASUS seems to view their entry level as an excuse to gimp the features.
If you really want to edit video splurge on 16 GB of ram. Convert 4-8 GB into a virtual drive using ramdisk. The size is prohibitive, but the increase in speed will make an SSD look like a joke.
SSDs do influence boot times. No spinning up, and a random access uninhibited by seeking, are fast. Once editing though, the SSD offers little noticeable practical benefits. HDDs are smart enough to load the cache with the next chunk of your video, so there isn't a reason to spend ~$2/GB when you can get a pair of cheap 500 GB drives (in raid 0) for the OS. The cash you save can go toward faster RAM.
Anything beyond a 5770 for editing is a waste. Adobe recommends Nvidea because it can use the cuda cores to accelerate processing. This is impactful, but the rather massive increase in power consumption never made sense to me. You can pick-up an hd 5770 new pretty cheaply (sub $100 if you look for a deal). It has driven my 1920x1080 monitor through some substantial gaming, without hic-ups. I can say by personal experience you would notice little difference between a 5770 and 6950, in video editing.
I support overkill on the PSU. Given the MTBF is usually 100,000 hours, and the lifetime of most mobos is only MTBF 50,000, you have to choose something worth the investment. Overkill today is spot on in 3 years whenever the person decides to splurge on a huge and power hungry new component.
If you really want to edit video splurge on 16 GB of ram. Convert 4-8 GB into a virtual drive using ramdisk. The size is prohibitive, but the increase in speed will make an SSD look like a joke.
SSDs do influence boot times. No spinning up, and a random access uninhibited by seeking, are fast. Once editing though, the SSD offers little noticeable practical benefits. HDDs are smart enough to load the cache with the next chunk of your video, so there isn't a reason to spend ~$2/GB when you can get a pair of cheap 500 GB drives (in raid 0) for the OS. The cash you save can go toward faster RAM.
Anything beyond a 5770 for editing is a waste. Adobe recommends Nvidea because it can use the cuda cores to accelerate processing. This is impactful, but the rather massive increase in power consumption never made sense to me. You can pick-up an hd 5770 new pretty cheaply (sub $100 if you look for a deal). It has driven my 1920x1080 monitor through some substantial gaming, without hic-ups. I can say by personal experience you would notice little difference between a 5770 and 6950, in video editing.
I support overkill on the PSU. Given the MTBF is usually 100,000 hours, and the lifetime of most mobos is only MTBF 50,000, you have to choose something worth the investment. Overkill today is spot on in 3 years whenever the person decides to splurge on a huge and power hungry new component.
