Gearhead needs advice

Thanks for all the help.

BTW, I pulled the trigger on a new computer purchase. Tell me if I did good, as you seem to know about them. I had to spec it because I couldn't find what I wanted in a finished unit. Remember this is for video editing, I'm not a gamer and never will be.

Intel i5-2500K 3.30 GHz 6M liquid cooling
8GB DDR3 1333 MHz dual channel memory
700 watt PS
Nvidia GeForce GT 520 w/ 1GB
Biostar H61MH Intel HDMI Motherboard
HDD 1TB SATA II 3.0Gb/second
Wireless IEEE 802
12 in 1 flash media reader/writer
24X double layer dual format DVD R/RW

Bob
 
The gt520 isn't that great, and i'm not a fan of biostar motherboards....but then again I'm not a fan of buying prebuilt PC's either so.....

Good CPU, plenty of ram, has what you need and I'm sure is blazing fast compared to what you have now but I'd consider a video card upgrade in the future.
 
Well, I sure hate to admit it, but all you folks were correct. I have had a horrible experiance with Cyberpower. They finally after 2 plus weeks sent the new computer out with a bad video card. They now tell me that they have no more of that video card and they need to charge my VISA an additional $159.00 for a upgraded card they do have. Cameron in tech support was honest and told me for my video editting chores this card would offer no performance increase over the bad one they sent me. Talk about screwing the customer. Next time when I arrive at a forum like this one, where the experts hang out, I'll do the smart thing and listen to them. My own stupid ego wanted my Cyberpower PC to do all the video editting I needed, so as I could return here and give a positive review.

If you haven't figured it out, this is a most negative review of Cyberpower. Does anyone here have anything positive to say about Cyberpower? Or is it the folks that responded to my posts mirror the insight on the forum that Cyberpower is rather rotten?
 
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Are you sure it was even the video card? Did you have another to put in and test it? Or did you try to pull the card and just run the onboard graphics?

With a biostar board, it's a better chance the board is DOA rather than the video card.
 
87dtna said:
Are you sure it was even the video card? Did you have another to put in and test it? Or did you try to pull the card and just run the onboard graphics?

With a biostar board, it's a better chance the board is DOA rather than the video card.
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Cameron, tech support at Cyberpower had me just pull the card and try onboard graphics, this worked, the monitor came to life.
 
not really suprising to me...vibration in shipping...can make things fail, so easily the gpu got rattled badly enough it failed, or made the gpu slot fail, those heavy cards make me wince when their put in transit espically inside a case...
 
FuryRosewood said:
not really suprising to me...vibration in shipping...can make things fail, so easily the gpu got rattled badly enough it failed, or made the gpu slot fail, those heavy cards make me wince when their put in transit espically inside a case...
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Cyberpower had a $20.00 option of better internal packing, which I paid for. The card was firmly in place when I pulled it to check. I just feel conned by Cyberpower.
 
Ok guys I'll try again. Last Friday sent the never worked Cyberpower back for refund. Decided to go with the custom built PC Gamer (even though I'm not a gamer but need to video edit 1080P HD), original configuration of this computer had two video cards. Would two give better performance for video editting or is it just good for gaming? I can add the 2nd video card back in if you guys convince me it will speed up my editting chores. Also it is overclocked to 5 GHz. Tell me what you think for just under $2K?

Chassis : V3 Dark Fleet CONVOY Chassis by Antec
Chassis Cooling : V3 Ultra Cyclonic Positive Pressure Airflow System
Exterior Finish : Midnight Black
Power Supply : 750W Corsair SLI/CrossFire Ready 80 Plus Power Supply
Graphics Card 1 : NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 550 Ti 1GB @900MHz w/PhysX
Graphics Card 2 : None (-160)
Dedicated PhysX (Nvidia Cards Only) : NO
Motherboard : MSI® P67A-GD53 SLI/CrossFireX w/USB 3.0, SATA 6Gb/s
Processor : INTEL® Core™ i7-2600K 3.40GHz (3.80GHz Turbo) Quad-Core Unlocked, 8MB Cache w/HT (+170)
Processor Cooling : V3 GAMING LC120ZS by Asetek Zero-Service Liquid Cooling
V3 LC™ Launch Control Overclocking : YES, V3 GAMING Launch Control Stable Overclocking (K-Series Only)
Memory : 8GB Kingston HyperX Dual-Channel DDR3 (2X4G) - 1333MHz CL9 (+70)
Operating System Hard Drive 1 : 64GB Crucial RealSSD C300 SATA 6.0Gb/s MLC SSD Ultra-Performance (+110)
Operating System Hard Drive 2 : 64GB Crucial RealSSD C300 SATA 6.0Gb/s MLC SSD Ultra-Performance (+110)
Operating System Hard Drive RAID : RAID 0 - Striped for Faster Speed (Total Size = 2X Drive Size)
Data Storage Hard Drive 1 : 1.5TB SATA 7200RPM High-Performance (+110)
Data Storage Hard Drive 2 : None
Data Storage Hard Drive 3 : None
Data Storage Hard Drive 4 : None
Data Storage Hard Drive RAID : None
Optical Drive 1 : 24X Dual Layer SATA DVDRW
Optical Drive 2 : None
Media Reader : Internal 3.5in. Multi-Function Media Card Reader (+20)
Audio : 8-channel High Definition Surround Sound Optical S/PDIF Out
Network Adapter : Dual 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet
Wireless Adapter : None
Operating System : Microsoft® Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit
 
Sounds pretty good. The GTX550 is more than enough for your needs. No need for second card.

You probably also don't need raid on the SSD's, they are lightning fast with just one drive but if you have the money to spare it's cool.
 
87dtna,

Seeing the specs of your build, I have to ask, how do you like the SSD? This is the order I put in, up the size of the RAID 0 SSD to (2) 128 GB, and raised the ante on the GPU, comments please.

Chassis : V3 Dark Fleet CONVOY Chassis by Antec
Chassis Cooling : V3 Ultra Cyclonic Positive Pressure Airflow System
Exterior Finish : Midnight Black
Power Supply : 750W Corsair SLI/CrossFire Ready 80 Plus Power Supply
Graphics Card 1 : NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 570 1280MB @732MHz w/PhysX (+230)
Graphics Card 2 : None (-160)
Dedicated PhysX (Nvidia Cards Only) : NO
Motherboard : MSI® P67A-GD65 SLI/CrossFireX w/USB 3.0, Dual SATA 6Gb/s and Firewire (+40)
Processor : INTEL® Core™ i7-2600K 3.40GHz (3.80GHz Turbo) Quad-Core Unlocked, 8MB Cache w/HT (+170)
Processor Cooling : V3 GAMING LC120ZS by Asetek Zero-Service Liquid Cooling
V3 LC™ Launch Control Overclocking : YES, V3 GAMING Launch Control Stable Overclocking (K-Series Only)
Memory : 8GB Kingston HyperX Dual-Channel DDR3 (2X4G) - 1333MHz CL9 (+70)
Operating System Hard Drive 1 : 128GB Crucial RealSSD C300 SATA 6.0Gb/s MLC SSD Ultra-Performance (+280)
Operating System Hard Drive 2 : 128GB Crucial RealSSD C300 SATA 6.0Gb/s MLC SSD Ultra-Performance (+280)
Operating System Hard Drive RAID : RAID 0 - Striped for Faster Speed (Total Size = 2X Drive Size)
Data Storage Hard Drive 1 : 1.5TB SATA 7200RPM High-Performance (+110)
Data Storage Hard Drive 2 : None
Data Storage Hard Drive 3 : None
Data Storage Hard Drive 4 : None
Data Storage Hard Drive RAID : None
Optical Drive 1 : 24X Dual Layer SATA DVDRW
Optical Drive 2 : None
Media Reader : Internal 3.5in. Multi-Function Media Card Reader (+20)
 
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