• VEGAS Pro

  Hardware upgrade

  Posted by Francois Penzes on May 27, 2009 at 2:18 pm

  Hey there! Have been running Vegas 7.0e for the past 2 years on a Dell Optiplex 745 with XP on it. Intel Core 2CPU 6400 @ 2.13 Ghz and 4 Go RAM. Ever since the IT guys at the shop made the switch to Vista it hasn’t been the same. They are offering to upgrade my PC to these specs;

  Base unit: OptiPlex 960 Minitower Base Standard

  Processor: Core2 Quad, 9650/ 3.0GHz

  Memory: 4GB,Non-ECC,800MHz DDR2,2X2GB

  Graphics: 256MB ATI RADEON HD 3450 Graphics dual DVI and VGA and TV Out

  Hard drive: 250GB SATA 3.0Gb/s and 8MB Data Burst Cache

  Dell 19 in 1 Media Card Reader

  Mouse: Dell USB Laser 6-Button Mouse

  CD-ROM or DVD-ROM: 16X DVD+/-RW SATA

  Additional storage: 160GB SATA 10K RPM 3.0Gb/s 3.5inch SATA2 16MB Data Burst Cache

  I don’t build machines I just edit. What do you guys think?

  Cheers

  Frank P.

  John Rofrano replied 17 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  John Rofrano

  May 28, 2009 at 1:47 am

  > Core2 Quad, 9650/ 3.0GHz

  You should be very happy trading up from a 2.13Ghz DualCore to a 3.0Ghz QuadCore. That’s a LOT more power. 4GB of memory is minimal but OK. You might want more than 160GB of extra storage depending on how big your projects are. Overall, not a bad trade.

  ~jr

  http://www.johnrofrano.com
  http://www.vasst.com

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