• Avid Media Composer

  AMD OR INTEL??

  Posted by Lisafer on August 16, 2006 at 4:13 pm

  I was told by a friend that you cant run avid xpress smoothly with an AMD processor.Is this true??

  Kai Konuk replied 17 years, 4 months ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
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  David Braswell

  August 16, 2006 at 8:39 pm

  There are people successfully using AMD with Avid editors, however Avid lists Intel as the supported configuration. Unless you’re just “hobbying” around or you truly like computer tweaking, you’re better off sticking with Avid recommendations. Do some searching on the Avid forums to see what works and what doesn’t.
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  Jon Zanone

  August 18, 2006 at 11:56 am

  Amen, Maverick13!

  If you’re trying making money, buy from a reseller. The increased cost up front will more than pay for themselves in the long run. Instead of tweaking under the hood, you’ll be editing.

  Jon
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  Jon Zanone

  August 19, 2006 at 3:06 pm

  I attended an Avid roadshow Thursday. While waiting to talk to one of the demo artists, I overheard this (paraphrased) conversation:

  “I’m using Avid XPress Pro but it keeps crashing.”
  “What’s your system?”
  “Oh, I’ve got a P4 with 4gb of RAM and a water cooled Matrox video card…”
  “Matrox cards aren’t certified with Avid. You need an NVidia card.”
  “…Oh.”

  My point? Stick with what Avid says works. FCP (and Mac flavored Avids) don’t have this problem, because only one company makes G5’s – Apple. It’s very easy to configure a Mac because there aren’t that many options. There are hundreds (thousands?) of PC makers. Millions of possible configurations. Avid cannot test every possible combination to see if it works. If they did, we’d never see an upgrade.

  Just thought I’d throw that in.

  Jon
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  Kai Konuk

  January 14, 2009 at 10:47 am

  Hi!

  I got this computer:

  eMPIRE+ P64 X4 9850+/2GB/750Gb
  SATA/GF8800GT512MB/
  AMD PHENOM 9850 QUAD-CORE 125
  AM2+4MB
  1GB 800MHZ DDR2 NON-ECC CL6
  DIMM
  SMG F1 750GB SATA2
  7200RPM 32MB
  MSI GF 8800 GT PCI-E 512MB
  OVERCLOCKED

  My question is: Is my comp compatible together with AVID Composer?

  I appreciate any anwswers that could help me on this one!
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  Jon Zanone

  January 14, 2009 at 12:43 pm

  In short: Probably not. Here are the specs Avid needs –

  https://www.avid.com/products/Media-Composer-Software/system-requirements.asp

  BTW, It probably would have been better to start a new thread rather than post on an old one. I would have never gone back to check something this old if I didn’t have email notification set up through the COW. You’ll get more responses that way…

  Jon

  “Jamming our heads full of figures and angles
  And telling us stuff that we already know”

  Willie The Wandering Gypsy & Me
  Billy Joe Shaver
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  Kai Konuk

  January 14, 2009 at 1:03 pm

  thanks! ye, you right. I thought I did start a new thread…

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