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[F1 9LFG]

thank you all for your replys.
 
So does anyone fancy building me a tower...?

 

[Seth]

As tunnie says, get yourself one of these mothers:



Our iMac really gets the  here, believe me!

[F1 9LFG]

sadly I don't want to go the Mac route, custom tower and windows 7 for me. just a personal thing, i'm very used to windows and like the idea of a tower I can easilly open up and add to/upgrade parts etc.

cheers

[Martian]

thank you all for your replys.
 
So does anyone fancy building me a tower...?

 

I'm quite happy to put a rig together for you as I'm not doing anything other than watching breaktard TV when I'm not at the hospital, however I'm a good 60 miles from you which may be a bit much?

The days of the Mac being better than the PC at photo/video editing are long gone, Toms Hardware proved ages ago that the PC is just as good and in some cases better than the Mac at certain tasks.

As TB & Kevin have already stated, a decent i5/i7 CPU on a decent (Asus) board with a decent (Intel) chipset and 4GB of RAM will easily cut it in the editing/manipulation stakes for both photo & video.
As an example, my lappy (i5 480M, 4GB RAM, 256GB SSD) can transcode a 2 hour DVD to MPEG4 (Xvid AVI) in 27 minutes from start to finish. That may not sound impressive, but anyone who has done video conversion will confirm that is actually quite quick.

[F1 9LFG]

thank you all for your replys.
 
So does anyone fancy building me a tower...?

 

I'm quite happy to put a rig together for you as I'm not doing anything other than watching breaktard TV when I'm not at the hospital, however I'm a good 60 miles from you which may be a bit much?

The days of the Mac being better than the PC at photo/video editing are long gone, Toms Hardware proved ages ago that the PC is just as good and in some cases better than the Mac at certain tasks.

As TB & Kevin have already stated, a decent i5/i7 CPU on a decent (Asus) board with a decent (Intel) chipset and 4GB of RAM will easily cut it in the editing/manipulation stakes for both photo & video.
As an example, my lappy (i5 480M, 4GB RAM, 256GB SSD) can transcode a 2 hour DVD to MPEG4 (Xvid AVI) in 27 minutes from start to finish. That may not sound impressive, but anyone who has done video conversion will confirm that is actually quite quick.

everyone likes Macs or Windows, each to their own.

so lets talk beer tokens...

tricky as i'm a customer who doesn't really know what he wants!

if you PM me your email address i'll send you what i'm after and if you could give me a total cost it'd be really grateful.

cheers Rob

[D]

If you want mainstream brands:

http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=d006204&c=uk&l=en&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1&model_id=inspiron-620&

Seems reasonably good value with a decent spec, RAM and graphics card.

[D]

Again mainstream, but slimmer and aesthetically more pleasing, bit more expensive:

http://www.dabs.com/products/hp-pavilion-s5-1020uk-slimline-core-i3-2100-4gb-ram-1-5tb-hdd-dvdrw-w7hp-7T3S.html?refs=43560000-56560000-50240&src=3

[cem_devecioglu]

thank you all for your replys.
 
So does anyone fancy building me a tower...?

 

I'm quite happy to put a rig together for you as I'm not doing anything other than watching breaktard TV when I'm not at the hospital, however I'm a good 60 miles from you which may be a bit much?

The days of the Mac being better than the PC at photo/video editing are long gone, Toms Hardware proved ages ago that the PC is just as good and in some cases better than the Mac at certain tasks.

As TB & Kevin have already stated, a decent i5/i7 CPU on a decent (Asus) board with a decent (Intel) chipset and 4GB of RAM will easily cut it in the editing/manipulation stakes for both photo & video.
As an example, my lappy (i5 480M, 4GB RAM, 256GB SSD) can transcode a 2 hour DVD to MPEG4 (Xvid AVI) in 27 minutes from start to finish. That may not sound impressive, but anyone who has done video conversion will confirm that is actually quite quick.

agreed.. and even better than mac.. personally I dont see any advantage paying more money for a mac, other than its image..

besides , if I were you , I would first ask the question which picture , video editing software (sorry my mind started to work today )

and then ask pros which hardware they use.. generally design and photo,video houses work with them..

[cem_devecioglu]

I find this link to be helpful
http://photo-editing-software-review.toptenreviews.com/

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2383523,00.asp

http://www.corel.com/corel/product/index.jsp?pid=prod4230172&cid=catalog50008&segid=4400004&storeKey=ca&languageCode=en

[cem_devecioglu]

http://www.squidoo.com/i7-motherboards

now,personally I recommend Gigabyte boards .. Ram units at least Kingston and if your budget permits you can go for ECC type RAMs but price will jump..  (ps: ecc rams and boards are generally used for servers)

[tunnie]

If you want mainstream brands:

http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=d006204&c=uk&l=en&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1&model_id=inspiron-620&

Seems reasonably good value with a decent spec, RAM and graphics card.

Again mainstream, but slimmer and aesthetically more pleasing, bit more expensive:

http://www.dabs.com/products/hp-pavilion-s5-1020uk-slimline-core-i3-2100-4gb-ram-1-5tb-hdd-dvdrw-w7hp-7T3S.html?refs=43560000-56560000-50240&src=3

Both i3's really not going to cut it....

[Martian]

http://www.squidoo.com/i7-motherboards

now,personally I recommend Gigabyte boards .. Ram units at least Kingston and if your budget permits you can go for ECC type RAMs but price will jump..  (ps: ecc rams and boards are generally used for servers)

Gigabyte used to make some seriously quick & stable boards, but they took a serious nosedive when they introduced the BX2000 and never really recovered from it IMHO.
My first choice these days is Asus, although I always read the reviews before making the final decision. 

[cem_devecioglu]

http://www.squidoo.com/i7-motherboards

now,personally I recommend Gigabyte boards .. Ram units at least Kingston and if your budget permits you can go for ECC type RAMs but price will jump..  (ps: ecc rams and boards are generally used for servers)

Gigabyte used to make some seriously quick & stable boards, but they took a serious nosedive when they introduced the BX2000 and never really recovered from it IMHO.
My first choice these days is Asus, although I always read the reviews before making the final decision.

been using Asus for ages, and my experience prooved me Gigabyte builds more reliable boards although being a tad slower..

[D]

If you want mainstream brands:

http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=d006204&c=uk&l=en&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1&model_id=inspiron-620&

Seems reasonably good value with a decent spec, RAM and graphics card.

Again mainstream, but slimmer and aesthetically more pleasing, bit more expensive:

http://www.dabs.com/products/hp-pavilion-s5-1020uk-slimline-core-i3-2100-4gb-ram-1-5tb-hdd-dvdrw-w7hp-7T3S.html?refs=43560000-56560000-50240&src=3

Both i3's really not going to cut it....

The second gen i3's are pretty powerful. Unless your are into CAD or really need the extra processing grunt which I am not sure the OP needs. I use a mobile version of the i3 in one of our laptops and have absolutely no problem with raw photo or HD editing. Plus the dell can be easily upgraded to the i5 version for about £50 more.

http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=d006248&c=uk&l=en&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1&model_id=inspiron-620

The all in one is very nice but much more expensive:

http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=d0023203&c=uk&l=en&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1&model_id=inspiron-one-2320

Personally I find my mac much easier to use for photos/videos but as the Op clearly doesnt want to go down that route...

[TheBoy]

For a desktop, a Sandy Bridge (or later, 3rd gen out soon) i5 is about minimum for heavy work.  i7 may not see much extra benefit here, due to how hyperthreading works.

I don't recommenf Gigabyte any more. Mind you, nor ASUS

I tend to stick to Intel motherboards for self builds, due to stability, reliability, and support. When I build a PC for someone, I don't want it to come back. Ever.