AMD OR INTEL??

[David Braswell]

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.

[Jon Zanone]

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

[Jon Zanone]

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

[Kai Konuk]

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!

[Jon Zanone]

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

[Kai Konuk]

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