System Required for college. for Mass com and journalism.

[imported_Nishad]

Hello everyone.

I have a query about the system that we are about to purchase for our college. Our faculty has a requirement for a high powe pc. with 8 gigs ram i3 processor and good graphic card,, which will be used for editing videos and pictures basically for multimedia.

There are two machines we can buy. one is workstation form hp and another is imac. our budget is around 75 k for each machine.

please suggest.

 

[Jaskanwar Singh]

Intel Core i7 950 @ 14.5k
MSI X58 Pro-E @ 10.5k
Gskill 6GB 1600 DDR3 Trident Kit @ 7.2k
Zotac Geforce GTX470 @ 14.5k
WD 1TB Black @ 4.9k
Corsair TX650W @ 6.3k
CM 690 II Plus @ 5.3k
DELL Ultrasharp U2311H @ 14k

Total - 77.2k

 

[ssb1551]

Wow!!470 + i7 system needs such a high power PSU!!:flu-surprised8:

 

[Jaskanwar Singh]

even a vx550w will "just" do. remember 470 is a power hungry gpu. i recommended this only because CUDA can help him..

 

[Cilus]

Hello everyone.

I have a query about the system that we are about to purchase for our college. Our faculty has a requirement for a high powe pc. with 8 gigs ram i3 processor and good graphic card,, which will be used for editing videos and pictures basically for multimedia.

There are two machines we can buy. one is workstation form hp and another is imac. our budget is around 75 k for each machine.

please suggest.

1st of all, remove the thought of Core i3 processor. It is a lower end model from Intel and not at all suitable for the kind of work you've mentioned. You should be opt for at least a true Quad core processor.
And @ 75K you you get an assembled PC, it will be far better than anything you bought from HP or other companies.

However I'm suggesting a assembled configuration for you.

Processor: Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition 3.2 GHz (6 cores, 3 MB L2 Cache, 6 MB L3 cache) @ 13.4K
Motherboard: MSI 880GMA-E45 (With SATA 3 and USB 3)@ 5.8k
Ram: Kingston 4 X 2 GB 1333 MHz C9 DDR3 @ (1650 X 4) = 6.6K
Cabinet: Cooler Master Centurion 690 @ 4.2k
Keyboard & Mouse: Microsoft Comfort Curve @ 1K
Hdd: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 2TB (32 MB Cache) @ 4.9K
Optical Drive: LG 22x SATA DVD Writer @ 0.9K
Display: BenQ 24" G2420 FULL HD LCD Monitor (max resolution 1920 X 1080)@ 11.3k
Power Supply or SMPS: Corsair VX750W @ 6.45k
Graphics Card: Zotac GTX460 1GB GDDR5 @ 12.7k

total 67.25K. This configuration is more than enough to satisfy all your needs. A 6 core is capable enough to run the multi-threaded applications in blazing fast mode. 8 GB ram is actually a overkill. The cabinet will give you good air flow to keep the monster cool. 2 TB HDD is I think enough for a server. BenQ G2420HD is a very good LCD monitor and working on it will be fun and easy.
The Power supply is capable enough to run your current setup and also open for any possible future upgrade. The Graphics card is a Nvidia one which will offer CUDA and GPU computing. Most of the multimedia applications, now a day, are capable of using Graphics card to enhance their performance dramatically. I've suggested Nvidia card because CUDA is little mature than the ATI stream and number of applications supporting CUDA is little higher.

In the configuration I have not used the whole budge you have specified>.The reason is when you buy the System from a Company, normally they provide the OS and the basic software. Here you have to purchase them separately. So use the extra money for it.

 

[vickybat]

@ op

Jaskanwar's config is the way to go. i7 950 + gtx 470 pack quite a punch. The 950 can also handle multi threaded apps blindingly fast. Nehalem cores are superior to thuban and you get hyperthreading so it can work on 8 threads simultaneously.

Moreover the 950 can be if you can add in a corsair h50 cooler and 4ghz can easily be achieved and at this clock rate this proccy becomes very hard to catch by its competitors.

 

[imported_Nishad]

Dear All.

Thank you very much for all your suggestions. I wish I could buy an assambled PC. Since it is for university, they only go for branded PC. Since they buy products in bulk, after sales service is very critical thing for them, and only branded companies gives very prompt services like hp, dell, hcl etc.
if we buy assembled PC then the vendor will not give us onsight warrenty, even if they give us they will not turn up on time.

so we are bit bond to buy from branded PC sellers.

 

[Cilus]

This is not an issue now a days. There are lots of company available to offer maintenance services to organizations like bank, offices or private companies. You can have an A.M.C contract with them and they will provide you the maintenance service for the systems present in your campus.

 

[coderunknown]

if strictly branded than OP can go for DELL XPS 7100 (check if i written correctly) & will offer Phenom II X6, HD5870 1Gb, 6Gb ram & 2Tb or so HDD. all for ~75k. VFM for those that doesn't like/trust assembled.