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  • adobe premeire pro and quad processor

    Posted by Manraj Singh on February 26, 2008 at 6:15 am

    do adobe premeire pro 2 video editing software support the quad core ?

    and also which quadra video card sud i go for in regard to after effect rendering …

    this is my pc config which I am going to build for editing

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    Proccesor Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.40Ghz
    Mother board gigabyte P35-DS3P
    HD – Storage Drive 1TB (2* 250 RAID 0 for video editing and 500 for storage) @ 7200 rpm 32 mb buffer HDD sata
    HD- System Drive WD 74G Raptor SATA HDD 16M 10krpm
    Ram 4GB Kingston DDR2-800
    Video card Gigabyte 512 GeForce 8600 GT
    Monitor 22″ samsung 226bw
    Dvd optical drive Pioneer 215BK SATA DVD Burner
    Speaker logitech R10 2.0
    Case Antec Sonata III
    Kb/Mouse Logitech Wireless LX-710
    OS Window Vista Home Premium 32 bit
    Wireless card Dlink PCI DWL -G520
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    thanks

    Vince Becquiot replied 18 years, 2 months ago 6 Members · 8 Replies
  • 8 Replies
  • Randy Mcwilson

    February 26, 2008 at 7:19 am

    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

    February 26, 2008 at 4:07 pm

    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

    February 26, 2008 at 4:18 pm

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

  • Perry Cheng

    February 26, 2008 at 5:47 pm

    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

    February 26, 2008 at 9:47 pm

    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

    February 27, 2008 at 3:52 am

    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

    February 27, 2008 at 10:16 pm

    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

    February 28, 2008 at 4:17 am

    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

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