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Priced out a PC
Well I began to look at a 8 core PC with 16 gigs of ram. Went with the recommendation of the Quadro 4000. Just that alone is almost $3000. When did PC stuff get so expensive?
I just do this for my church, but want to move into doing it for a part time living so I will probably bite the bullet and get the best instead of bandaiding it throughout the process.
Grace amd Peace!
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That is top of the line for video editing. If you want to make a business of this, you’ll have to easily spend at least half that (I did for my PC, now I’m already trying to build a new one). There’s no way around it.
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if $$$ is an issue drop the GPU and get a consumer GPU.
From my experience vegas just does not use OpenCL or CUDA enough to justify the cost.
that would give you plenty of $$ left to buy SSDs and storage drives and perhaps a capture card or microphones….
btw, my rig in my sig does well, 8 core CPU would be MUCH better but it still does well.
Sony Vegas Movie Studio
Intel i7 3770, AMD 7970, 32gb, 2xRAID0 Intel 240gb SSD, 2x2TB WD Green, 3×23″ Samsung LCDs
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I would wait on the Kepler until I *need* it for GPU assist. Once your processor power gets fast enough, GPU support becomes less of a factor, even a hindrance since it takes longer to prepare the data and send it to the GPU than for the processor to just process it without the GPU.
Steve Mann
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You will not see a performance increase with a Quadro 4000. Even on the vegas gpu page it puts a gtx 570 against a Quadro 5000 and the much cheaper gtx 570 wins in every case. Some people swear by the Quadros and what your paying for is pro level support. If this is important to you, go for it. You will not get better performance from a Quadro though. I would get a gtx 580.
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