Would a dual xeon quad cores on a server board be good for large video editing projects? I need to build a system that'll do that and other things like video surveillance, photoshop, presentation for about ~800$.
that would work fine but you would need to spend about twice your budget. two xeon quad core for $460 and a nice dual socket motherboard for $350 and 4gb fbdim ram for $150. that is #950 right there and you would still need a case psu hard drives optical drives and a video card.
would the system be video editing worth? i know that ram for these systems isn't all that fast so it might hinder the performance, would it be wiser to go for a workstation board?
yes an octo would be great at video editing but if your budget is around $800 a q6600 would also do jsut fine. cpu http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115018 mobo http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128344 ram http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231145 gpu http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133232 psu http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139005 cooling http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835154001 hdd http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136218 odd http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151171 case http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119137 total=$875 with shipping you would be able to overclock the cpu to over 3ghz and that would provide plenty of power for video editing. if you use photoshop alot you will want an nvidia gpu so you can take advantage of the new cuda and gpu acceleration support in cs4. is will speed up many different tasks. http://techreport.com/discussions.x/15571
no. the heatsink on it is sufficient. i have a gigabyte motherboard with the same cooling and it is doing fine overclocked. but if you feel that it is getting to hot you can always put a different heatsink on or add a fan to it.
