Why would you spend crazy amounts of money on an i7-930 and a giant case if you are only going to video edit and then go budget on the graphics?
How much video editing are you going to do? The i5-661 is 77% the speed in video encoding (75 fps vs 58 fps) and it comes with a video card that can bitstream protected high def audio channels. I'm betting an overclocked i3 will get you similar results. Then you can save on the MOBO, RAM, CPU, GPU (and I'd say case too) and stick it into a better camera or tv. I'm assuming money is something of an issue or you wouldn't be looking for a budget video card.
Personally if I were building an HTPC for viewing and editing videos I'd go clarkdale i3 in a microATX case with power supply and enough space for 3 hard drives and a blu-ray player(6 TB is plenty IMO you can always add eSATA drives.)
If you really do encoding multiple times per day then I'd go with a i5-750 in a microATX with the cheapest vid card I can get that can sent the protected audio. Heck get an 860 it's faster and the MOBOs are cheaper and you only need 2 sticks of RAM.
I know you asked for only a vid card suggestion but I don't understand why you would want a monster case with top of the line everything and a "budget video card."
Also, for disk drives I'd take a look at the Samsung Spinpoint F3 drives...they are awesome.
Hey bud, thanks for your honest opinion and awesome advice. I really do appreciate the honest advice you have given me. Sorry, I didn't post more info in this thread ahead of time cause I though it was only a GPU section.
I'll try explain my reasoning behind all my purchases now so I can get you to reply with advice just like the one above (Honesty is awesome and appreciated). Oh and just to let you know I'm a complete noob at building cpu's. In fact, this is my first ever build and right now I am using a computer my parents purchased for me 10 years ago(1.5ghz pentium4, 256 RD Ram, 80-gig-ide samsung for os and a 250gb WD -- both hd's were later installed by me since the maxtor 40gig fireball it came with died).
OK now I apologize to anandtech for turning this thread into something that should be in "General Hardware".
Why would you spend crazy amounts of money on an i7-930 and a giant case if you are only going to video edit and then go budget on the graphics?
I am with you on this. I originally had budgeted my case as I have my GPU. I was thinking somewhere around $60-$100. But then I saw this HAF-932 and the great reviews on it about its
great air flow and thought of it as a insurance to extend the life of the parts I am buying since I do not have the budget/knowledge for water-cooling. I read lots of reviews and watched videos on this case and never saw anything bad except not having a dust filter in the front intake. So I was thinking instead of buying a aftermarket cooler(for cpu) right of the bat, I'll try out this case(cause it will help cool mobo/ram also) and monitor the temps for about 3-4 weeks and see if I need to get a better cooler for cpu. So my reasoning for this case is the Huge amounts of Air flow people are reporting with this case and that fact it has lots of space for future addons + the new fancy tooless design. So please let me know if there is a cheaper alternative to this case or if I am totally wrong about thinking the air flow will help.
Why i7-930? - I was going to get the 920 but a member of anandtech reccomended that the 930 was going to replace 920 and be the same price. So i changed to 930. Why i7 at all? I won't just be editing videos and watching movies (thats what i would only be doing with the GPU). I really wanted the ability to watch hd movies since my current cpu/gpu cant support it. The reason why I did not go with i5-661 is that it is not quad core(important in video editing and compression-winrar). The i5-750 is the one I had actually decided on two weeks ago and still considering actually but future of 1156 left me hanging ( I do realize when writing this that 750 is a good current build but without hyperthreading and futureproofing). This would be a awesome buy no doubt that would save me $200($100 on cpu and $100 on mobo). The only reason I moved from that is cause in another 2 years I can upgrade to a hexacore(after prices drop ofcourse) on 1366 as opposed to 1156 being dead. So futureproofing is why I am going to 1366. Otherwise I could have gone i7-860 if it was just Hyperthreading on 1156 also and still save myself the $100 on mobo.
As you can see I am building a computer after 10 years. I also plan to keep this for atleast 5 years until I graduate university and get a job. The i7-860 would save me possibly a hundred dollars(on mobo since cpu is same price as i7-930) and not future proof. The i7-750 has no HT which is important for non overclocking and save me $200 with no futureproof also. The i5-750 is a good option cause upgrading i7-930 cpu down road would mean buying a new cpu anyways. The reason why I considering i5-750 is cause why spend $200 more now to futureproof. When in future there will be better mobo's available for $200 with better usb3.0 and sata6 than even the current x58 chipset over p55 cause intel's new chipset next year.
The main reason to get a quad is cause I multitask alot (maybe I am overestimating the needs of multitasking since I am still on p4 1.5ghz). I am one of those people who always has music playing when on computer so that is 1 for sure. I run multiple apps at a time all the time ( winrar, burning dvd's, downloading at speed of 1.2Megabytes per second using multiple programs).
The HAF 932 is something I really do want to know about and I am glad you adressed it cause I too am not sure if it is worth to pay for the "great air flow" or it does not matter for my mobo/ram/hdd to be under great air flow. I thought of it as better than going out and installing multiple fans on a cheaper case cause HAF-932 comes with big fans that are quiet. The only cooling considered would be a aftermarked cpu cooler later if I see the temps to be high.
EDIT: I have been thinking since this post for about 30 mins and I think a 750 might do me good now. Cause throw futureproof out the window and save instant $200. The future proof part would mean not having to get a new mobo down the road. I think a i5-750 would last me 3 years atleast anyways. So if I did need the upgrade then just use the $200 I save now on a new mobo that will be better than the one I currently will be getting. Wow this is so confusing. I need someone to hold a gun to my head force me to make a decision. LOL
Thanks for your reply and giving time to this thread. I hope you reply back with more advice.
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