adobe premeire pro and quad processor

[Randy Mcwilson]

Looks real good. You will love the quad core 6600. screaming fast.

As for video cards, go with a Quadro. (512) they are pricey but worth it in terms of render time.

Also, you might want to look into a BluRay burner.

Eternity…don’t miss it for the world.

[Vince Becquiot]

For AE, the more RAM the better. I think with 4 Gigs you’ll only be able to run 2 instances, but it’s still uses all the processors.

You might be disapointed by a 2 drive RAID 0, as the speed improvements just won’t be that dramatic (except in theory).

I would at least recommend a RAID 5 with 3 drives, which will give you redundancy and you will only lose 33% space.

And don’t forget to add $400-$500 in your budget for the RAID card, onboard RAID is all but useless on most motherboards.

Cheers,

Vince

[Lloyd Coleman]

If I remember right, PPro2 does not take advantage of all 4 cores in a quad core. PPro CS3 does.

[Perry Cheng]

Manraj,
I have a simliar setup as yours, but with CS3. Do you plan to Overclock yours? I am able to do so up to 3.0GHz so far. After 4+ hrs of Stress test, Core0=56C, Core1=54, Core3=47 Core4=48. CoreVoltage = 1.2625V. (without OC, the temp is around 47C for the highest; I bought a Zalman Heatsink.) I am planning to do more tweak. I heard people able to get it up to 3.8GHZ and being stable.

Perry

[Eric Jurgenson]

Vincent, 32-bit XP can only handle 4 GB of RAM. And I must say I differ with you on the RAID setup. Two drives striped RAID 0 in XP is a lot cheaper than three drives and a RAID controller card. And three drives running RAID 5 wouldn’t be much faster. A two drive RAID 0 setup should be fairly secure with the quality of drives these days. I’d save the money (unless you plan to add more drives to the array later).

[Vince Becquiot]

Eric,

So are we talking about about integrated RAID 0 vs RAID 5 controller? The integrated RAID 0 will probably raise performance by 10-15% and use your CPU for computing power, that’s if you spend at least $300.00 on the motherboard; anything less and you are asking for installation nightmares.

Not worth the extra risk in my mind… You still need twice the storage and constant backups if you care about the data.

If you are going with a separate controller, RAID 5 won’t cost much more than RAID 0. It may be slighly slower, but still much faster than the integrated one.

And for safety ? Well, other than the fact that you are doubling your chances of a crash (that’s about 3% of the drives), most issues don’t arise from the drives themselves, but from the harware around them failing, or even human error. I have seen a couple of RAID 0 failures, and it ain’t pretty…

Vince

[Eric Jurgenson]

Vincent,

I’m a big believer in RAID protection, and it is absolutely necessary on my own 16 drive array. My point was that it is more expensive, and a two drive RAID 0 array is reasonably secure, in my opinion. If I wanted to stripe more than a few drives together, though, I would take your advice for sure.

[Vince Becquiot]

And that’s what I mean. With 4 or more drives, you are actually getting some good performance, but 2 drives just doesn’t justify the added risk for me.

Vince