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pablok2
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_ 		25. September 2008 @ 13:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Would a dual xeon quad cores on a server board be good for large video editing projects? I need to build a system that'll do that and other things like video surveillance, photoshop, presentation for about ~800$.
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krj15489
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_ 		25. September 2008 @ 16:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
that would work fine but you would need to spend about twice your budget. two xeon quad core for $460 and a nice dual socket motherboard for $350 and 4gb fbdim ram for $150. that is #950 right there and you would still need a case psu hard drives optical drives and a video card.
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pablok2
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_ 		25. September 2008 @ 22:20 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
would the system be video editing worth? i know that ram for these systems isn't all that fast so it might hinder the performance, would it be wiser to go for a workstation board?
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krj15489
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_ 		25. September 2008 @ 22:37 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
yes an octo would be great at video editing but if your budget is around $800 a q6600 would also do jsut fine.

cpu http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115018
mobo http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128344
ram http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231145
gpu http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133232
psu http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139005
cooling http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835154001
hdd http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136218
odd http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151171
case http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119137

total=$875 with shipping

you would be able to overclock the cpu to over 3ghz and that would provide plenty of power for video editing. if you use photoshop alot you will want an nvidia gpu so you can take advantage of the new cuda and gpu acceleration support in cs4. is will speed up many different tasks.

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/15571
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pablok2
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_ 		26. September 2008 @ 14:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
not a bad config, but don't you think that northbridge needs some better cooling?
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krj15489
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_ 		26. September 2008 @ 15:09 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
no. the heatsink on it is sufficient. i have a gigabyte motherboard with the same cooling and it is doing fine overclocked. but if you feel that it is getting to hot you can always put a different heatsink on or add a fan to it.
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