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| Thread ID: 114860 | 2010-12-20 08:18:00 | Help with buying a PC for video editing | Jessicagee (14280) | Press F1 |
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| 1163573 | 2010-12-20 22:12:00 | I don't disagree, the i5 is exactly the sort of thing I meant by mainstream intel quad core. AMD dont currently have an answer for the i7 but have always performed well compared to similarly priced inTel CPU's. The point I was attempting to make is the 6 cores of the AMD offer no real advantage over the 4 cores of say an i5 or cheaper i7. Oh, agreed, but they perform similarly, and are priced similarly, so technical differences aside, they will both provide a very similar experience to the user :) |
inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1163574 | 2010-12-21 01:39:00 | I use Win7pro64 and Adobe Premiere Pro2 for video editing. I bought a new computer from Computer Lounge in March this year. It works very well: CPU: i5-750 ("4 true cores") RAM: 8GB 1333MHz Motherboard: Gigabyte P55A (the 'A' means has USB-3) Case: forget its name (Chakra?) but it has a 250mm fan in the side (= quiet) and eSATA+USB ports facing up at the front Videocard: ATI 5450 (not powerful enough - it doesn't render transitions during timeline scrub. I am thinking of replacing it with an Nvidia 240 (I think) which can also be 'silent', like the 5450 ) As another poster has said, the 8GB is a bit overkill. But 4GB seems a bit light and if you go above 4GB you might as well go for 8GB I have two eSATA caddies which I consider essential for video/photo editing. They allow me to work on someone's video then pop the HDD out and hide it when I leave the house. I don't like the idea of a burglar getting hold of someone's personal material entrusted to my care... |
BBCmicro (15761) | ||
| 1163575 | 2010-12-21 03:10:00 | As for offloading decoding to the graphics cards most discrete cards handle this fine but very few encoders or transcoders actually use the graphics card to help despite this being possible for quite some time now. This is what I thought... CPU: i5-750 ("4 true cores") RAM: 8GB 1333MHz Motherboard: Gigabyte P55A (the 'A' means has USB-3) Case: forget its name (Chakra?) but it has a 250mm fan in the side (= quiet) and eSATA+USB ports facing up at the front Videocard: ATI 5450 (not powerful enough - it doesn't render transitions during timeline scrub. I am thinking of replacing it with an Nvidia 240 (I think) which can also be 'silent', like the 5450 ) Just out of curiosity, if you spent the money you had on the graphics card on a better processor (and used integrated graphics), overall, would you get faster encodings? |
utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 1163576 | 2010-12-21 03:37:00 | This is what I thought . . . Just out of curiosity, if you spent the money you had on the graphics card on a better processor (and used integrated graphics), overall, would you get faster encodings? I suspect you'd be looking at either an 1100T or i7-930, given the 5450 is about $120, so those would both be in the right price ballpark to redirect that spend . In either case, you probably would get slightly faster encoding than with the i5-750, but by how much would depend heavily on how well the application you're using does or doesn't take advantage of various hardware acceleration features on a graphics card . Given similar specs aside from CPU, I'd say either of these options would be about 20% faster than the i5-750 for that sort of task . |
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