Best pc specs for Adobe.

Adobe Premiere Pro

Best pc specs for Adobe.

Posted by David Hare on June 21, 2013 at 3:05 pm

Hi im looking to build a new pc one that is powerful enough to run premiere cc, after effects cc, photoshop cc as well as other programs. My problem is knowing what to go for. So far ive found 3 different pcs and im wondering which one sounds the best. these are

Intel i7 Quad Core – 3.9Ghz x 8 Threads / 8MB cache
31.2Ghz

RAM:32GB Corsair Vengeance 2400Mhz DDR3 Dual Channel

Graphics Card:
2x2GB NVidia GeForce GTX 770

Hard Drives:
Primary Windows Drive: 240GB Solid State Hard Drive –
Storage Hard Drive: 2000GB Hard Drive – 7200RPM / 64MB Cache

Power Supply:
850W Modular Power Supply Unit

Motherboard:
ASUS Z87A – Newly released, newest technology. Great features such as USB3 / SATA3 / PCI-Express X16 3.0 / NVidia SLI Support

Operating System:
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit Edition – Preinstalled

Specification 2:

CPU:
Intel i7 Hex Core 3.8Ghz x 8 Threads / 12MB Cache

RAM:
64GB Corsair Vengeance 1866Mhz DDR3 Quad Channel

Graphics Card:
2x 2GB NVidia GeForce GTX 770

Hard Drives:
Primary Windows Drive: 240GB Solid State Hard Drive –
Storage Hard Drive: 2000GB Hard Drive – 7200RPM / 64MB Cache

Power Supply:
850W Modular Power Supply Unit

Motherboard:
ASUS P9X79 – Newly released, newest technology. Great features such as USB3 / SATA3 / PCI-Express X16 3.0 / NVidia SLI Support

Operating System:
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit Edition

Specification 3:

CPU
Intel® Core™i7 Six Core Processor Extreme i7-3970X (3.5GHz) 15MB Cache

Motherboard
ASUS® SABERTOOTH X79: SOCKET 2011, R.O.G

RAM
64GB KINGSTON QUAD-DDR3 1600MHz (8 x 8GB)

Graphics Card
2 x 6GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX TITAN

Hard Drives:
120GB KINGSTON HYPERX 3K SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 555MB/sR |
510MB/sW)

2nd Hard Disk 480GB KINGSTON HYPERX 3K SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR 450MB/sW)

3rd Hard Disk 4TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD4001FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE
(7200rpm)

SSD CACHE DRIVE 20GB INTEL® SSD 313 SERIES – SLC CACHE DRIVE FOR SYSTEM / 1st HDD

Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit w/SP1 – inc DVD & Licence (£79)

Also what is best having 2 x 2gb GeForce GTX 770 OR 1 4gb GeForce GTX 680. The specs go in order of price so im wanting to see what people thoughts are. I’M looking for something that will be fast and allow me to work at ease but without busting my bank.

Alex Gerulaitis replied 12 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
1 Reply

Alex Gerulaitis
June 23, 2013 at 6:37 am

Media storage is a weak spot on all these systems. Consider a RAID0 on 2+ drivers or a RAID5/6 on 4+ drives.

Check our Harm Millaard’s guides on Adobe forums – even though he mostly addresses Pr needs (not as much AE or Ps).

Do you really need dual graphics? (How many hours a day do your encode / export, what file formats, what is the complexity of your timeline – how many video layers, what effects.) In other words, what you think you need the horsepower for?

If you work in AE a lot (which mostly uses CPUs for rendering, and is very hungry for RAM), consider a dual Xeon system.

Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Engineer
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA

Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up

Creative Communities of the World Forums