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#1 davebth

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Posted 05 January 2013 - 12:43 PM

My friend wants to build a computer that he will use mainly for rendering videos as he makes youtube videos. My question is what parts would he need to spend more on?

#2 coastie65

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Posted 05 January 2013 - 01:53 PM

Hi. The first thing thst comes to mind is he will need a bit more RAM then normal. 16 Gb should be enough. Having said that, a good processor and video card are musts.

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Posted 05 January 2013 - 02:00 PM

If he was rendering high quality 1080P content, then 16GB would be a necessity. If only 720p or lower definition, than 8GB is plenty. Get a decent 4 or 6 core Intel processor, and a basic nvidia GPU. An Nvidia 550Ti will help accelerate the rendering quite a bit.

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Posted 05 January 2013 - 03:02 PM

Even though my desktop only has 8GB RAM, I've found that's still plenty - I seem to use 5-6GB max when doing that.

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#5 davebth

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Posted 05 January 2013 - 06:24 PM

Yeah I was already gonna suggest getting 16 GB of Ram. Is this a good video card?

http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814127577

and is this a good processor?

http://www.newegg.co...N82E16819115233

Also does that processor have overclocking capabilities? Because he wants to get water cooling eventually too.

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Posted 05 January 2013 - 06:30 PM

That's a fairly good GPU, though not the best if you're gaming. (enough for 1080p in all the games I've tried though) However, that CPU is NOT overclockable - you want one ending in a K - for instance, the 3570K. (http://www.newegg.co...N82E16819116504)

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#7 davebth

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Posted 05 January 2013 - 06:38 PM

LiveBrianD, on 05 January 2013 - 06:30 PM, said:

He won't be playing like huge games because he is still a console gamer at heart (Xbox) and he just wants to play games like minecraft and chivalry and smaller games like that.

#8 davebth

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Posted 05 January 2013 - 06:49 PM

This is the build so far
http://www.newegg.co...-MSI-_-14127577

http://www.newegg.co...ntel-_-19116504

http://www.newegg.co...N82E16822148910

http://www.newegg.co...N82E16811119233

http://www.amazon.co...d=ATVPDKIKX0DER

http://www.amazon.co...d=ATVPDKIKX0DER

http://www.amazon.co...=A1B16S9HEII11V

so we just need a motherboard now. Any suggestions?

#9 waldojim

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Posted 05 January 2013 - 09:32 PM

I have always been a fan of EVGA boards. If you are willing to spend the money, go with the EVGA Z77 FTW. Other wise, I would suggest looking into the Asus or Gigabyte offerings.

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