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Any gain from Dual QuadCore Xeons?
I use AE alot and it’s time to upgrade…looking at QuadCore Xeons, two of them on a server/workstation motherboard.
What I want to know is if AE7 Pro is optimized for this processor, or if there will be optimization by this year? I suspect that currently it’s only optimized for Dual Core processors. I want to get as much speed as I can get right now and the whole Adobe Production Studio is what I use mainly, and Canopus EDIUS4 (another story) as the main NLE mixed in with Premiere Pro 2.0.
Thanks!
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No, AE is not multithreaded in many areas and neither are many plugins. For the time being you won’t be able to max out the power of your system otehr than using Nucleo Pro.
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Nucleo Pro should blast through AE with 8 processors as long as you have plenty of RAM. If you look at a thread below or search the AE board for ‘Nucleo’..Steve forde I think recommended 2GB per core for maximum performance. So I guess for good performance with 8 cores that’s 16GB RAM, so you’ll need XP64 for or Vista to run that much RAM. I think Nucleo will use upto 32GB.
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Thanks guys…I was looking at Nucleo, seems nice. As for RAM, I’m thinking of 4GB Max, I’m not running a render farm here so I can’t put in 16GB of ram heh.
So do you recommend I go with 2 x Dual Core Xeons?
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Don’t bother with more than 3GB of RAM. AE cannot use more than 3GB (windows).
Also windows can only use 4 gig RAM max and that is including the Page File. So having more than 3GB of physical RAM is pointless until Vista and applications running on it can take advantage. -
If you can run XP64 or Vista then it IS worth getting the extra RAM if you can afford it/need it? (i.e: if you do more complicated 1080 HD work then you’ll definitely benefit) AE itself will see and use 4GB on a 64-bit OS and Nucleo will use any other RAM you put in to speed up renders/previews.
If you’re on XP32-bit then yeah, no point having more than 3GB.
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Win XP Pro SP2 / Intel P4 3GHz / 2GB RAM / GeForce FX5200 / DeckLink Pro / Sony BVM-20G1E / DVS SDI Clipstation / 110GB boot/80GB media/600GB RAID-0
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