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    Avid Requirements…

    Posted by Jimangiola on October 27, 2005 at 5:41 pm

    Hey all,

    I recently bought a Dell Dimension and hope to be purchasing Avid ExpressDV in a couple days. I’ve checked their system requirements but was wondering if anyone here had anything to add or any recommendations for running Avid as smoothly as possibly. Thanks! Below is my computer’s technical specs.

    Model- Dimension 9100
    Processor- Pentium D 820 with Dual Core (2.8 GHz, 800 FSB)
    Memory- 2 GB Dual Channel DDR2 SD RAM at 533 MHz-4 DIMMS
    Video- 256 MB PCI Express x 16, ATI Radeon x600 SE HyperMemory
    HardDrive- 320GB Performance RAID 0 (2x160GB SATA HDDs)
    Sound- Basic, Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio

    Thanks,
    Jim

    Tom J replied 20 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Tom J

    October 30, 2005 at 8:09 am

    Hi there,
    A search for Nvidia or ATI should bring about a good amount of results for you regarding XDV and various setups.

    Just a quick note, for some time I was running XDV 3 and 3.5 on a compaq laptop with the following config:
    PIII 1.2 ghz
    1 gb (pc 133) ram
    60g (7200) rpm HDD
    ATI Mobility Radeon 32mb graphics card

    However unfortunately that laptop died pretty miserably so… For now I am using XDV 3.5 on a Dual Athlon Tyan Tiger 2466 with 2gig of ram, 320gig (2×160 hdd striped media drive), 120gig source hdd, and an Nvidia Quadro FX 1100 with no troubles at all. I am quite pleased with it. I may just keep it on this system, we’ll see.

    At times I used to run into some operational conflicts with my laptop. Some audio errors that were resolved by a dongle update from Avid. Most of the time I would blame it on the 32mb graphics card. Not necessarily the ATI chipset but the amount of memory. Some folks would argue that the ATI chipset can be at fault and that you should run Nvidia. After some research for the new versions I would agree. Use Nvidia if you can. But then again your PCI Express ATI may run quite nicely, I don’t know.

    I have since upgraded to Xpress Pro HD and I have ordered an Alienware MJ-12 with similar configurations to Avid’s recommendations. I can’t wait to try it out on the new laptop to compare to my Dual Athlon setup.

    Good luck, HTH

    Tom

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