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what to look for in buying new PC for AE
After effects is my bread and butter and I’m in the process of buying my new machine. Can anyone tell me is lower MGHz dual processor better than a fast single w/ a ton of ram – and what are any other factors I should consider before? (if can anyone recommend a turnkey systems i’ll check it out – they seem like ripoffs to me?)
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Turnkey to me just means that you are paying a hell of a premium just for somebody to have selected and assembled the parts. I buit a custom gaming machine damn near identicle to an Alienbrain system and it cost about $2000 less. For now, your vid card is not very important to AE much at all since it’s OpenGL implementation is so weak. However, I have a sneaking suspition that there will be a lot more GPU involvement in newer versions of AE. So I would still get a great vid card.
I don’t know the answer to your questions about 2procs vs. one w/ different Mghz and Ram, but there has got to be a lot of benchmarks out there to examine. But overall, if you build your PC, you can grab the fastest of almost everything and still come away with a machine that is as fast, but costs half the price of a G5 (although I use AE on a G5).
but I have tested AE on my PC and it sings.
6 months ago, I went to newegg.com ordered the fastest of everything (at the time based on a single AMD 64FX 55 chip) with lots o’ ram in a simple ugly case for only $2800. My G5 with around the same specs was $5000. Ouch.
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AE’s hyperthreading isn’t as efficient as we’d like to see it. So a single CPU is usually the most cost-efficient. You could also go for a dual board, but add a single CPU, and add the second one later on.
As for videocards, I’m getting an nVidia 6800GT board – which gives a lot of bang for the buck. The 6800Ultra is so big it renders the first PCI slot useless.
AGP 8x works well for now, but the future is in PCI-Express for graphics adapters.
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Does the PC have a 64 bit like the G5?
just curious, my understanding was that G5 has the lowest priced 64 bit proccesor you can get…
Deyson
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Yes. The whole AMD 64 series is 64 bit (like mine/ half price of my G5). Not sure which Intel chips are.
Of course my decision to use AMD over Intel was purely due to the fact that they sponsor Schumi and Rubens’s F1 Ferraris. 🙂
Chris Smith
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