Anyone tried an AMD dual opteron, dual-core motherboard with Vegas??

[Chris Borjis]

2 cpus x 2 cores each, wouldn’t that be 4 cpus?

[Wade Harrington]

I think you are right. Unless they are HT chips too?? Not sure.

[Greg Noss]

Boris is correct. Dual/dual core opterons is 4 CPU’s. Intel makes the HT core chipsets which are equivalent to the dual core Opterons. I think the bigger question is ” Will Vegas run on Windows XP 64?” because the Opterons are 64 bit CPU’s. That is where you will get the biggest increase in performance from.

[Terje A. bergesen]

[Greg noss] “the Opterons are 64 bit CPU’s. That is where you will get the biggest increase in performance from”

This is more of a myth than anything else. There is nothing inherent in 64 bit computing that makes it faster. In fact, there are a number of things that may make it slower. There isn’t much in a 64 bit architecture that will make Vegas or similar style of software faster. The 64 bit architecture allows for a far larger memory space etc, which isn’t really needed by most applications. Don’t expect 32bit to 64bit to have anything like the effect 16bit to 32 bit had.

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Terje A. Bergesen

[Greg Noss]

You are correct. However, I’ve seen benchmarks between Non-64 bit software and software made to take advantage of 64 bit processing. The 64 bit software benchmarks were significantly higher. Software not optimized for 64 bit processing does in quite a few cases run slower in a 64 bit enviroment. Maybe, I should have worded my comment differently. Is Vegas coded to take advantage of 64 bit processing?

[James Green]

“Intel makes the HT core chipsets which are equivalent to the dual core Opterons.”

Umm, no…HT is not the same as having 2 separate physical cores. Just cuz you can see two processors doesn’t mean you’ve got to. Besides, if an HT Pentium was the same as a Dual Core Opteron, why do you thin Intel would bother with the Pentium D?

James Green