Thanks… did you pay for the pro version?
cheers
Yeah got the personal version and it was worth it, saved so much fucking about
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merci, I’m going in.
Is it just me or is GoDaddy a bit shit?
Yes, I’d thoroughly recommend digitalocean (referral for free shit: DigitalOcean | The Cloud for Builders)
It’s a step up but you have complete control. And yes godaddy are shit, I used to use them (solely based on it being cheap) before moving here. Also recent news about godaddy and wordpress: GoDaddy Breach Widens to tsoHost, Media Temple, 123Reg, Domain Factory, Heart Internet, and Host Europe
For the love of god make sure you install wordfence to protect your WP site, at a minimum
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Thanks for the info 
Duplicator did it, after a bit of faffing with plugins and permissions. Used the free version.
Nice one
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Any recommendations/business’ for a video editing pc to use with Davinci Resolve? Ideally around looking to spend £500 and understand I need a 2gb graphics card and 16gb ram minimum.
I’m just wondering where to look into/avoid, plus any advice please? I do have premiere Elements but been a bit limited with that and my current computer isn’t powerful enough.
I built mine by asking on r/buildapc, got some great advice on an upgrade to my MB, ram and CPU. I didn’t need to buy a new setup just upgraded the main bits. Might be worth trying.
I don’t know much about computers but FWIW I got this
And just bought some shite graphics card for £25 in Cex. Works like a charm, can edit with premiere, after effects, photoshop and 50 firefox tabs open all at once no problem. All that is about £350 so would leave room for other stuff too if needed.
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Thanks wayout.
Good to hear your system works - I’ll try and find something that has those bits.
I haven’t really got the time to look into building but understand it would be cheaper.
Also see you have 32gb of ram, so guessing that helps with rendering projects/general speed?
First and most importantly, what’s your budget? There’s still major supply issues with GPUs worldwide thanks to cryptomining, so if you’re looking for the latest RTX3090, be prepared to pay silly money.
What else will you use this for - gaming, full time work, web design, coding, etc? Or just farting around a little?
Main things to consider are the more powerful the CPU you get, the more stuff you can do, and the more RAM you get, the faster your machine will get stuff done. The GPU will allow you to quickly zip through lots of 4k footage (if that’s what you’re editing) with little need for rendering everything first.
You’ll also need hard drives, there are 3 main types right now - M2 which are the fastest by connecting right into the motherboard, solid state drives/SSD which are a little slower, but barely noticable for 99% of users and traditional hard disk drives (HDD) which are a good deal slower and much more suited to storing old projects, music, photos, random files which don’t get used in a current, critical project. If you’re doing a lot of video editing, use an SSD (NOT the C drive) for writing cache files - nearly all editing programs (inc Photoshop and assorted 3D apps) will write cache files somewhere and using a separate drive to the OS for this makes everything smoother.
There’s 2 main CPU types right now, Intel and AMD. They’re both as good as each other, but you’ll need to get the correct motherboard to match. For me right now, AMD seems to be give that much more bang for the buck - the Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 9 lines are the most powerful gaming/general use CPUs they do. The main thing to look at for video editing/creative work is the CPU’s clock speed - the current batch tend to come in around 3.5- 4.0 Ghz when idle, boosting up to 5.0Ghz when under load. 80% percent of the time, a higher clock speed with a smaller number cores will get more done faster and easier than a CPU with lower clock speed with more cores.
You’ll also need a power supply to run all that. If you have a bunch of hard drives, a beefy GPU, a cooler of some sort (all-in-one water loop or air fan, take your pick), enough RAM, etc. then you’d be needing something at least 750W - if it’s not enough, the PC won’t turn on.
All my work is high-end motion graphics, video editing and 3D, so I tend to go for the fastest I can afford. I have 128Gb of RAM in there and After Effects/Premiere still uses nearly all of it when rendering. My current build is about as fast as I can get it without tipping over into CPU costs of £2000+. Unfortunately for me, I had to fork out a lot on the GPU, but it’s long since paid for itself. And the case is ugly as fuck, the motherboard could have more features, but choices at the time to get the fastest CPU, a 3090 GPU from a legit EU source meant I had to take what I was given. No harm though, it’s fast.
When I lived in the UK, and indeed, up till Brexit, I got all my hardware via Scan in Bolton. Not the cheapest, but the most reliable and they do quality work if you’re willing to pony up for one of their custom builds, or even an off-the-shelf machine.
These parts and specs would be a good starting point - https://ie.pcpartpicker.com/list/MKDHfP
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What a clear and informative post mate - thank you!
I’d be looking to edit 1080x1920 HD footage, along with footage from mini dv possibly.
I did put this system (Dual 23" Monitor Gaming PC Bundle i7 3770 240SSD 1TB 32GB Ram GTX 1650 1660Super | eBay) on my watch list last night (as could do with the other bits aswell). It also has an SSD, plus regular drive for storage, 32gb of ram, along with intel CPU. Also has usb 3, so I can capture dv footage, rather than using firefire which has been causing problems.
Would this be okay? If not, at least I know what to avoid.
I have a regular pc and laptop for work, plus an older one which I use for capturing VHS. None of these hold up for editing more than 5 minutes and often crashes occur.
What’s your current setup? It’s honestly pretty easy to upgrade your own, it gives more flexibility, will be cheaper and you’ll learn some valuable things for if / when it starts to go wrong
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Has anyone upgraded to Windows 11? If so
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what are your thoughts?
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Do you have to install everything from fresh afterwards or does it leave all my programs etc intact?
Yeah I upgraded about 2 days ago.
- It’s fine, quite a nice experience. Have not used it as a daily driver though, it sits there churning through some analytics stuff.
- No, everything I’ve needed worked fine with no updates needed, although I do only use some quite specialised trading software, not Office or PS or anything.
No probs.
That PC is pretty weak to be fair. It has a 240Gb SSD for Windows. That fills up quickly and you really should add 2 more SSDs - one for your Premiere/Resolve cache files and the other for your current project. RAM should be ok for your needs, but that used CPU, GPU and motherboard is a big red flag for me. Others may say otherwise though. You’d be ok with one of those being second hand, but unless you know the person and know they’re legit, personally, I’d leave it.
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Thank you again for your reply mate.
The problem is I’m not really able to spend more than £650 for this so have to make a few compromises. The business who’s selling are just down the road and have knocked a bit off for us to deal off ebay - and for me to pick up. I can always sell it again for something better after this project.
I see what you mean about the SSDs, I’ll ask if there’s available bays, but also wondering if I could use external SSDs, using the usb3.0 ports?
Thank you again man and I’m not totally happy about the used bits but with them being down the road and for what it’s worth they have good ebay feedback, thinking it might be worth a go… I need to get something sorted by next Wednesday at the latest, so will have another look over the next couple of days.
fwiw i’ve bought a lot of used pc components in the 15 years i’ve had an interested in PC’s, and had a dud part on 1 occasion which was easily fixable.
the spec of that pc is okay however cpu platform wise you’re 10 years behind (3770 was ivy bridge? i think). my main gripe with those stores that sell refurbed gaming PC’s is that usually their business model is this:
- buy old dell desktop office pc’s in bulk
- strip out the motherboard, cpu, ram and drives
- repurpose them into a new (usually cheap) “gaming case”
- throw in a gpu and sell for a markup
- throw away dell case, psu etc, contribute to ewaste.
that being said, the spec of that machine would do fine for 1080p editing. as for expansion, they have the board listed as an Intel Dq77MK which has 5 sata ports - taking away the one for the ssd already installed, that leaves you 4. however, you know it’s not £650 for the whole thing gpu etc included right? whilst it’s listed as a 1650/1660 in the title, once you choose the 1650 and a case from the drop down boxes, it hops up to £720.
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Does anyone else find their macbook pro bluetooth has got worse after one of the recent updates? I run a magic keyboard, magic mouse and a plantronics wireless headset and it seems like my mouse interferes with the headphones, and people can’t hear me if I speak and move the mouse at the same time, and sound comes out all garbled. I swear it should be able to cope with more than a couple of devices at a time!
Sorry I only just saw your post. I’ve had 2nd thoughts on that ebay one and been looking into getting something all new.
What about this from Aldi which has just come out - https://www.aldi.co.uk/medion-desktop/p/719269578227800
I understand Ram is low and could need to extra drive(s) but as a starting point?
I would say spec wise that the system would function fine “as is” for your use case (which was 1080p editing iirc). The issue with a prebuilt as a starting point is that often they’re not really designed to be upgraded so they’ll lack ports for expansion. I can’t really find anything online about it nor an interior shot, so my main worries would be:
- Lack of space to install a GPU if you wanted multiple monitors.
- The included power supply not being enough to power a GPU if it fits - often prebuilts will use basically the bare minimum when it comes to power supplies; that being said, the quality of them these days is pretty good, but not much room to work with wattage wise.
- No indication as to whether it’ll have drive bays that’ll fit storage (which to be fair if you went all SSD based storage wouldn’t be an issue as I’ve definitely straight up taped down SSD’s to machines)
- Airflow wise the case looks pretty shoddy.
- From the size of the tower, I assume it’s a mATX board (mATX being MicroATX. ATX is the bigger sized motherboard, mATX is smaller and has less expansion) so it probably has 2 RAM slots, meaning to go to 16gb/32gb/etc you’d have to buy 16/32 sets as opposed to just adding it on.
I have to ask, if you’re willing to consider a prebuilt as a starting point and upgrade later, have you not considered going with the same idea but building it yourself? For example, I just went on Scan, followed the same spec as above but with 16GB RAM and without a case it came to £452.
That’s all quality components too, decent PSU for a gpu upgrade in the future, could add another M2 SSD or 4 SATA SSD’s/HDD’s.
