Any Ideas of a System Spec for £1500

[VJDefinitive]

Hello all,

I am needing to send a installation company the spec of a PC to use resolume on. Ive not spec a PC before and the one I use is a laptop.

What would you guys recomend? Ram, Processor, Graphics Cards etc?

[VJ Nexus]

I posted my "dream machine" specs in a post below. I built this computer for about $1700 usd. You wouldn't need as high of a graphics card for resolume either, so you could save a little there. You have a decent budget it seems, so this is what i would go for...

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (processor) , 1gb-2gb ddr2-5400 ram, and a couple of 10,000rpm raptor drives in raid 0 configuration. Video card is fairly irrelevant, although make sure it has a couple outputs you can use (most modern ones do). With the e6600 processor the real challenge was finding a motherboard that supports core 2 duo. Despite the fact it uses same socket as previous p4's, those boards don't support it - you need a board that supports 65nm chips.

read my specs listed on my other recent post - this machine will have no limits for resolume...

[VJDefinitive]

NexusIntent, thanks for that, Ive speced up similar to yours mate. Just a question, Why is there a need for 2 drives at raid 0 configuration? Does this increase performance?

[VJ Nexus]

Do some google research on RAID 0 ... it offers significant increased speed by splitting data across two identical hard drives. Essentially, to read a 100mb file, it takes the same amount of time as reading a 50mb file, because it is reading 50mb off of both hard drives at the same time. By doing this, however you do increase your chance of drive failure, because if one drive goes, the other becomes useless as it only has half the data... research on raid - there are lots of options with different advantages and disadvantages. I chose raid 0, but that's my opinion/decision.