Basic Editing Setup.

I need some help fellas, can someone help me out and either suggest a ready made cheap pc thats ready to go for editing, or suggest the parts I would need to build my own cheap one. And I mean cheap, but still capeable of editing without lag and slowdowns.....

PLEASE

For real now, nobody cares.....

as long as your comp isn't complete shit or loaded with programs and files, all you really need is a editing program and firewire port.

Thx yates, well I have been told that certain motherboards and types of ram are needed ect. ect....

I just don't want to go buy a firwire port only to find out that I can't use it on my motherboard, or it isn't compatible with it somehow.

Not too sure what you mean but if the computer has a firewire port, it's more than likely to take your wire, right?

Anyways, aside from the obvious fast processor, lots of ram and a big hard drive, a good graphics card is a def too, those GeForces are prolly the best.

I've got 1GB ram, 400GB and only a 2.2Ghz processor.... AMD Athlon 64.... and it's ran everything I've tried on it... perfectly.... not too sure about any of the top games though.

I have an ATI Radeon 9800+ graphics card thing, and thats also been fine so far.

Anyways, dunno if it's any help, not too good with this stuff but....

Thanks man, I guess I'll just look around the net and see what's the cheapest I can get.

I have a dual-core 3.0 Ghz processor, 1GB Ram, 500GB hard drive space, ATI X300 PCI-express, Sound Blaster 7.1 Sound Card. It runs fast and everything runs smoother than a babies bottom.

Haven't edited anything on it yet, but I'm about to attempt a new short film.