Asus P5Q Deluxe

[martinpalmer8]

Hello.

I'm planning to build my first p.c. from scratch. It will be used for video editing (Adobe Premiere CS4), so I will need slots for at least 5 SATA drives.

After some background reading, I have converged on the following motherboard/processor:

Asus P5Q Deluxe, iP45, S775, PCI-E 2.0 (x16), DDR2 1200/1066/800
and
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550, Yorkfield Core, S775, 2.83GHz, 1333MHz

Any comments on the suitability of those two, please?

I haven't chosen a graphics card yet but was considering something inexpensive like XFX 9800GT.

[burfadel]

How much RAM are you planning to use? x64 would definitely be the way to go.

http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/production/pdfs/cs4_production_premium_64bit_wp.pdf

Besides how much RAM you choose, with 4x2gb ddr2-1066 being ideal since its quite cheap now! - premiere can make use of that! the biggest decision you have will be the brand of HDD you buy. HDD's are definitely not all the same!

[St Devious]

Thats a good board and CPU. Should OC quite well if you are looking to get some extra FPS while encoding.

Agree with the above suggestion, go for 8GB RAM and a 64-bit OS. Video card shouldn't matter much unless you are going to be playing some games. Even a 9600 GT or HD4670 should be fine if you are not into games.

[Sharktooth]

adobe softwares now make use of CUDA, so a nvidia videocard is recommended.

[St Devious]

adobe softwares now make use of CUDA, so a nvidia videocard is recommended.

With the arrival of OpenCL and DX11 Compute Shader that should change, shouldn't it ?

[Sharktooth]

yep (or at least, it should), but for now, adobe supports CUDA.

[Dr.Khron]

NLEditing tends to be somewhat disc intensive, so if you are really looking to use 5 SATA drives, its worth spending 300-500 for a real onboard RAID card. Otherwise, you are spending cycles on disk access.