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<blockquote data-quote="Wayside" data-source="post: 6088696" data-attributes="member: 8394">If you're open to building your own system but haven't done it before, Newegg's Customer Choice Awards are a great place to start:<a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/CustVoteProductWinner.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/CustVoteProductWinner.aspx</a>They're a record of the most highly rated hardware each month, and, besides quality, provide a strong indicator of the parts with the best price-to-performance ratio.You might also take a quick look through the video-editing benchmarks at sites like AnandTech and Tom's Hardware, since you have a specific use case in mind. And if you ask for help in their forums, you'll also get plenty of input, e.g. <a href="http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=34595700" target="_blank">http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=34595700</a>Pinching pennies has nothing to do with it. If you and I start out with the same budget for a new system, but I build mine and you buy yours off the shelf, guess how much more powerful mine's going to be? A 25+% difference in performance is common. Throw overpriced Apple hardware into the mix and it'll skew even higher.There's nothing wrong with buying off the shelf, of course, but let's be clear: you're trading about an hour of your time (if you've never done it before, otherwise 15-20 minutes) for an inferior product, costs being equal. And considering that an off-the-shelf system will have to be upgraded more frequently, the long-term reduction in time spent shopping should more than cover assembly.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wayside, post: 6088696, member: 8394"] If you're open to building your own system but haven't done it before, Newegg's Customer Choice Awards are a great place to start: [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/CustVoteProductWinner.aspx[/url] They're a record of the most highly rated hardware each month, and, besides quality, provide a strong indicator of the parts with the best price-to-performance ratio. You might also take a quick look through the video-editing benchmarks at sites like AnandTech and Tom's Hardware, since you have a specific use case in mind. And if you ask for help in their forums, you'll also get plenty of input, e.g. [url]http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=34595700[/url] Pinching pennies has nothing to do with it. If you and I start out with the same budget for a new system, but I build mine and you buy yours off the shelf, guess how much more powerful mine's going to be? A 25+% difference in performance is common. Throw overpriced Apple hardware into the mix and it'll skew even higher. There's nothing wrong with buying off the shelf, of course, but let's be clear: you're trading about an hour of your time (if you've never done it before, otherwise 15-20 minutes) for an inferior product, costs being equal. And considering that an off-the-shelf system will have to be upgraded more frequently, the long-term reduction in time spent shopping should more than cover assembly. [/QUOTE]

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