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Any speed improvements with Vegas6 and an AMD Athlon 64 processor?
I’m looking into buying a laptop from the same group Edward buys his from and they offer a AMD Athlon 64 as an option. I was thinking of going Centrino but was wondering if any of you have seen improvements with an AMD 64 bits processor and Vegas 6? This will be used for in the field edits where they need to be done fast!
Good friend, around these hearth stones, speak no evil of any creature
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using AMD 3700/w 1gig ram in laptop … don’t know if it’s faster then centrino but do know it is faster rendering when you use more then just the internal C drive. IMO for fastest rendering= render to external drive( or internal if laptop has 2nd drive) .. i use 2 external drives when on the road ( laptop drives in external cases) ) = 1 on USB and the 2nd on 1394.
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So if I had a firewire or USB2.0 external HD it would render faster because it was not the system drive? Actually I’m going to be hooking up a Firestore FS-4 to this, probably the 40gig model. But I could also bring along an external HD.
Good friend, around these hearth stones, speak no evil of any creature
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Suppose you have one drive – drive C:. Now you render from C: to C:. Your drive has to spend time reading from drive C: and then writing TO drive C:. Both processes take time and slow each other down.
Now suppose you have TWO drives: drive C: and drive D:. You render from drive C: to drive D:. Now you are simply READING from C: and WRITING to D: so neither process has to wait on the other one giving you a faster render.
Of course this is assuming that the reading and writing is not waiting on the CPU to finish processing some effect.
Edward Troxel
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