Looking for a powerful pc...

biged670

I think I'm going to opt for this one guys.

http://www.meshcomputers.com/Default.aspx?PAGE=PRODUCTVIEWPAGE&USG=PRODUCT&ENT=PRODUCT&KEY=124559

Any good???

CAT-THE-FIFTH

Two 7300GT in SLI are only a tiny bit faster than a single 7600GT

http://www.techspot.com/review/6-geforce_7300gt_sli_performance/

CAT-THE-FIFTH

I would upgrade this system to a 7900GS which utterly destroys the 7600GT

http://www.meshcomputers.com/Default.aspx?PAGE=PRODUCTCONFIGPAGE&USG=PRODUCT&ENT=PRODUCT&KEY=121551

It too has SLI capabilities

The buy a decent widescreen separately. PC world were doing 19 inch Viewsonic ones for around 140 quid in-store last week or the week before!!

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1855589482.1161175150@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccdaddjeeihhilcflgceggdhhmdgmi.0&page=Product&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null&sku=885211&category_oid=

biged670

I'm not really to fussed on the graphics to be honest. I'll only be playing games every now and then, and it'll only be football manager and fifa probably. I'm looking for power more than naything due to the heavy downloading and converting of the movies.

CAT-THE-FIFTH

Ok then you should look at this then:

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2536

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2551

The latest graphics cards support GPU accelerated media transcoding

biged670

I bet they are exspensive though arn't they?

CAT-THE-FIFTH

When I mean the latest I mean the current generation of ATI and Nvidia cards.

Perhaps this worthy of more research!!

http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?t=58962

http://forums.snapstream.com/vb/archive/index.php/t-31275.html

biged670

Would any of the above systems support these cards? I'm sorry for my newbieness

CAT-THE-FIFTH

I need to look into this as I think the 7900GS does but I would have to make sure though!!

All I have seen is this so far:

http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/377/4/

biged670

Cat what is this exaclty? A very powerful video card, with built in conversion tools? How does it work exaclty, is there sfotware for it?

I currently use a few programs to convert one movie and it takes about 6hrs on my current system. I read in one of those threads that a guy converted a 7gb movie file in 45mins with this tool. That is simply out of this world!!!