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Help me build an editing pc
i want to build an editing pc. my limit is $2000. got any good sites to build a pc? i need some help picking the right options.
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Okay, on the printers, I'd go for Epson 6 colour inkjet printers. They're affordable, do fantastic photo-relistic quality, and if you get a slightly better spec one, you can use independent colour cartridges, saving you a small fortune in the long run on throwing out half-used inks, just because 1 colour ran out!
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Start at http://www.tcwo.com Things to look for generally... fastest AMD/Intel P4 chip you can find. I prfer NVidia or Intel chipsets on the motherboard as opposed to VIA. We've had some flakey problems with some of the VIA chipsets. That said on the proc/MB
Minimum of 512 MB of DDR to match your chip speed..
Serial ATA Hard Drive and controller or Minimum 7200 RPM EIDE drive - 120GB or better...
Here's a link to an Athlon 3000 package, MB and CPU for $307
http://www.tcwo.com/cgi-bin/webc.cgi/st ... P0@h2ri2BX
ANd here's a P4 3.2GHz MB/CPU package for $531
http://www.tcwo.com/cgi-bin/webc.cgi/st ... P0@h2ri2BX
Check out the mother board bundles, then fill in witht he ram etc you need...
Minimum of 512 MB of DDR to match your chip speed..
Serial ATA Hard Drive and controller or Minimum 7200 RPM EIDE drive - 120GB or better...
Here's a link to an Athlon 3000 package, MB and CPU for $307
http://www.tcwo.com/cgi-bin/webc.cgi/st ... P0@h2ri2BX
ANd here's a P4 3.2GHz MB/CPU package for $531
http://www.tcwo.com/cgi-bin/webc.cgi/st ... P0@h2ri2BX
Check out the mother board bundles, then fill in witht he ram etc you need...
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Try best buy. I just built an Athlon 64 3200+, 1 gig ram, 120 GB HD, ATI Radeon 9800 Graphics card, a 17" monitor, and a printer for a little over $1900 at there customization counter. Although, it was with a sale, so I don't know about right now. It's an HP a450e. You can't go wrong with an HP or a VAIO. Both great systems.
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I just wanted to say that most printers from all the different manufacturs these days produce superb quality results. I don't want to give the impression that something I recommend is the only 1 to get, and all others are bad.
I have a small arsenal of different pritners, and I get the best results from Epson for colour inkjet printing, and HP for colour laser printing.
Unless you're willing to spend that bit extra on a colour laser printer, a mono laser won't serve you well for presentation work that could make use of photos and splashes of colour to highlight things.
HP are now offering colour laser printers from $700! but the running costs are prohibitive. For me a single colour toner cartridge costs about £100, and will last you about 2000 pages. When the manufacturers tell you 2000 pages, they base this on a percentage ink coverage. In reality if you start printing photos out, you're increasing the coverage percentage considerably, and reducing how many pages you're going to get from a toner cartridge!
Another thing to watch out for with entry-level colour lasers is small memory - My colour laser printer has 128MB RAM, and this is the minimum I'd recommend. If you have less than this (HP's entry level printers start with 16MB), your pages are going to take an eternity to process before any printing gets done.
Looking at the specs of this newer generation of colour lasers leaves me somewhat speechless - For the same £3000 I spent on my last one, I could have something that prints twice as fast! Oh well, I don't use it for speed fortunately, it serves me well for what I need.
I have a small arsenal of different pritners, and I get the best results from Epson for colour inkjet printing, and HP for colour laser printing.
Unless you're willing to spend that bit extra on a colour laser printer, a mono laser won't serve you well for presentation work that could make use of photos and splashes of colour to highlight things.
HP are now offering colour laser printers from $700! but the running costs are prohibitive. For me a single colour toner cartridge costs about £100, and will last you about 2000 pages. When the manufacturers tell you 2000 pages, they base this on a percentage ink coverage. In reality if you start printing photos out, you're increasing the coverage percentage considerably, and reducing how many pages you're going to get from a toner cartridge!
Another thing to watch out for with entry-level colour lasers is small memory - My colour laser printer has 128MB RAM, and this is the minimum I'd recommend. If you have less than this (HP's entry level printers start with 16MB), your pages are going to take an eternity to process before any printing gets done.
Looking at the specs of this newer generation of colour lasers leaves me somewhat speechless - For the same £3000 I spent on my last one, I could have something that prints twice as fast! Oh well, I don't use it for speed fortunately, it serves me well for what I need.
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