Hello I want a low-budget desktop computer optimized for cinelerra. Say up to 500 dollar. What should I buy? Do I need a fast graffic card or should I better spend the money on a faster CPU? What CPU performs the best for the money? If I need a graffic card which one gives the best value for money? How much memory is optimal? My expectation is I will often have to stabilize shaky footage, and sometimes I want to overlay a shot onto another one. If I got it right these two things are done much faster by a graffic card, but some say to me that rendering relays heavily on the CPU, and a graffic card won't speed up that process. What is true? My idea is to use an SSD for the swap partition (amongst others) Is that a good idea? Or are there some pitfalls? And which distribution will be the best performing. At this time I am using Ubuntu 8.04. I like it but I did never get cinelerra to work with that. Besides that cinelerra has been removed from the ubuntu repository two months ago, so no updates. Arch linux may be to archaic for me. How is Gentoo? Any comments are welcome.
Gerrit
